Exam 6: Section 3: Memory

A test that uses cued recall or recognition is usually easier than a test that uses free recall to measure long-term memory for information.

Counteracting the serial position effect by spending extra time studying material that falls in the middle of what you are studying is a good strategy for improving memory.

Autobiographical memory is closely related to episodic memory and refers to events of your life-your personal life history.

Chunking is one way of increasing the storage capacity of short-term memory.

One kind of script, called a schema, involves a typical sequence of actions and behaviors at a common event, such as eating in a restaurant or taking a plane trip.

Research has consistently shown that, like photographs, flashbulb memories are unaffected by the passage of time. Thus, they tend to be highly accurate.

The "lost-in-the-mall" technique was developed by psychologist Elizabeth Loftus and involves leading participants through an unfamiliar shopping center or mall and then asking them to retrace the path back to the starting point.

Working memory is also referred to as long-term memory.

The content of earliest autobiographical memories for Taiwanese and Chinese college students tended to concern routine activities in the company of other people.

Long-term memory is like a high definition video camera that captures all details of everyday events.

Contemporary research suggests that complex memories are distributed throughout the brain.

According to the working memory model developed by British psychologist Alan Baddeley, the "phonological loop" is the component that is specialized for spatial or visual material, such as remembering the layout of a room or city.

The Focus on Neuroscience on mapping brain changes in Alzheimer's disease summarized a study that showed that brain regions that handle visual and sensory tasks were spared until the late stages of the disease.

If information in short-term memory is not actively rehearsed, the information is transferred to long-term memory.

The temporal lobes and the frontal lobes are involved in complex autobiographical memories.

Complete repression of all memories of abuse is most likely when the abuse has occurred on repeated occasions over the course of months or years.

Although forgetting important information can create problems, not being able to forget anything would also create problems.

Recent studies suggest that the true "magical number" for the capacity of short-term memory is more likely to be four, plus or minus one, than seven, plus or minus two.

The recency effect is especially prominent when you have to engage in serial recall.

Of all the regions of the brain, the cerebellum plays the most critical role in the encoding of new episodic memories and the transfer of episodic memories from short-term to long-term memory.