Exam 5: Memory

Constructive processing is the process of altering memories of the past so that they are more positive.

What type of stimuli did Hermann Ebbinghaus use in his memory experiments?

The earliest and main type of memory problem that people with dementia,including Alzheimer's disease,typically have is called __________.

Which type of long-term memory is most difficult to bring into conscious awareness?

In the semantic network model of memory,concepts that are related in meaning _______________.

Evidence suggests that procedural memories are stored in the _____________.

Proactive interference of long-term memory means ______.

Many middle-aged adults can vividly recall where they were and what they were doing the day that John F.Kennedy was assassinated,although they cannot remember what they were doing the day before he was assassinated.This is an example of ___________.

Retrieving information from long-term memory is done by assembling information from various brain locations in a process known as ____________.

Pezdek and colleagues have found that false memories are more likely to be formed for implausible false events than for plausible ones.

Loss of memory from the point of injury or illness forward is called _____________ .

The most influential researcher into eyewitness memory has been __________.

You are asked to recall the word that means "a woman who houses and manages prostitutes." You are confident that you know what the term is,and you feel as though you are about to remember it,but it just will not pop out of your memory.You are experiencing:

Your memories of personal information such as what you wore to work yesterday or what you ate for breakfast this morning are stored in _______________.

The levels-of-processing concept of Craik and Lockhart would suggest that which of the following questions would lead to better memory of the word frog?

Your teacher has given each student the name of a key figure in the history of psychology.The assignment is to describe at least one significant contribution made by this person.If your historical figure is Hermann Ebbinghaus,what contribution might you describe to the class?

In the curve of forgetting developed by Ebbinghaus,the greatest amount of forgetting occurs _____________.

An explanation for the widespread storage of memories is that ____________.

Alzheimer's disease accounts for ___________ percent of all dementia cases in the United States.

The levels-of-processing model of memory states that how long a memory will be remembered depends on __________.