Exam 6: Section 5: Memory

As discussed in your textbook, the famous patient known for years as H. M. suffered from a severe case of:

Which of the following statements about long-term memory is FALSE?

In telling the detective everything she could recall about what happened when she went into the bank to make a deposit, Lynn got to the point that she could not recall any more details. At that point, Lynn was probably experiencing:

When asked to define the learning concept negative reinforcement, Hannah replied, "Negative reinforcement is when you perform a behavior that stops or lets you avoid an unpleasant stimulus, so you're more likely to repeat the behavior when you encounter the same unpleasant stimulus in the future." Hannah's answer reflects which category of long-term memory?

Of the following, which is considered a critical factor in the context effect?

Psychotherapy that encourages the recall of supposedly repressed memories from childhood, usually of physical or sexual abuse, is called:

Whenever Carlos reaches for the silverware, he keeps reaching for the drawer that used to contain the silverware. Carlos's failure to remember the new location of the silverware is probably due to:

Research with the sea snail Aplysia has demonstrated that:

In the earliest stages of Alzheimer's disease, the MOST common symptoms are:

Short-term memory is also called _____ memory.

What is the "lost-in-the-mall" technique?

Psychologist Elizabeth Loftus had participants in one study watch a film about an auto accident, write a description of the accident, and then answer a series of questions, which were different for different groups of participants. A week later, the participants were questioned again. What was one basic finding of the study?

Carlos experienced a severe head injury when his motorcycle was hit by a truck. These types of accidents often result in:

The Focus on Neuroscience feature described a study in which participants memorized labels for common objects, such as "dog," that were paired with either a picture or a sound. When they retrieved the memory, participants who had memorized the word dog with a picture of a dog showed a _____ level of activation in the _____ cortex.

Monica was absolutely certain that she knew the name of the actress who played the character of Meredith on the popular television series Grey's Anatomy, but she could not think of her name. This is an example of:

Ebbinghaus's research led to the creation of the:

When Kate got home, Guy rummaged through the grocery sack, then said, "Kate, you forgot the dental floss and the coffee creamer! They were the last two things I told you to get! Don't you remember me saying that?" That Kate remembered to get the first items on the list is a pattern of remembering called:

When information in short-term memory is NOT rehearsed or encoded, what happens to it?

The "phonological loop" and the "visuospatial sketchpad" are:

Adam vividly remembers the accident that sent him to the emergency room for stitches. This is an example of which type of long-term memory?