Exam 5: Memory

The concept of a house would be stored in _______.

Researchers have identified the cause of Alzheimer's disease as a decrease in the tangles of gamma-amyloid protein deposits in the brain

When asked to recall the date of John Kennedy's assassination,Peter draws a blank; however,when asked whether it was October 24,1962,November 22,1963,or February 1,1965,he correctly answers with the second of the choices.This example most clearly demonstrates the value of __________.

___________ memory is constantly updated.

The processes of encoding,storage,and retrieval are seen as part of the ____________ model of memory.

Janie is taking an exam in her history class.On the exam there is a question that asks her to state and discuss the five major causes of the Trans-Caspian War (whatever that was!).Janie remembers four of them.She knows there is a fifth,but time is u

Bethany is trying to focus on a conversation across the room during a party she is attending.This is because she thinks she heard her name above the din of the conversation.Her ability to hear her name is due to the mechanism of ___________.

An individual's memory can be distorted by:

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

A witness on the stand swears that he saw someone commit a crime.Must you believe that the testimony is valid when a witness testifies so forcefully?

Evidence suggests that procedural memories are stored in the cerebellum,whereas short-term memories are stored in the prefrontal and temporal lobes of the cortex.

What is the system or process by which the products or results of learning are stored for future use?

According to Baddeley,which memory system is best conceived of as three interrelated systems: central executive,visual sketchpad,and auditory recorder?

Deciding what information to store and how to represent it is known as:

In the levels-of-processing model of memory,information that gets processed at a __________ level (such as accessing the meaning of a word or phrase)is more likely to be retained longer and form a stronger memory than information that is processed at a __________ level (such as the visual characteristics of a word).

Sitting in a very noisy restaurant,you are able to screen out all the other conversations around you so you can listen to the friend with whom you are conversing.This is an example of _________.

Our memories of general knowledge items such as the meanings of words or the dates of famous historical events are stored in _______.

The capacity of STM is _______ items.

Recalling the definition of long-term memory is an example of __________.

Which memory system provides us with a very brief image of all the stimuli present at a particular moment?