Exam 6: Section 3: Memory

Clustering is one way of increasing the storage capacity and duration of short-term memory.

One form of motivated forgetting is suppression, in which all memory of an event or experience is blocked from conscious awareness.

Eric Kandel's research with the sea snail Aplysia demonstrated that memory formation involves functional and structural changes in neurons.

Much of what we learn is forgotten very quickly but eventually the rate of forgetting levels off.

H.M. could form new procedural memories.

Maintenance rehearsal is a very effective strategy for encoding information into long-term memory.

Déjà vu experiences are typically triggered by a visual scene, but can involve all of the senses.

Research has shown that the bits and pieces of information that people usually recall during a tip-of-the-tongue experience are completely unrelated to the blocked memory.

People who suffer from retrograde amnesia are unable to form new episodic memories.

Numerous studies have shown that exposure to misinformation after an event can distort the memories of eyewitnesses for the original event.

For long-term memories to become permanent and stable over time, they must undergo a physical process called memory consolidation.

Long-term memory storage capacity seems to be limitless.

Emotional aspects of memory are processed by the amygdala.

One of the key factors that contributes to "imagination inflation" is that repeatedly imagining an event makes the event seem increasingly familiar.

The terms schema and engram share the same meaning.

When your short-term memory store is filled to capacity, new information displaces currently held information.

Imagining some event in the past as different from the way it actually occurred can help you enhance the accuracy of that particular memory.

The most common cause of dementia is long-term alcohol abuse.

After years of research, neuroscientists have finally isolated the specific brain area called the parietal lobe that, when damaged, produces déjà vu experiences.

In a cross-cultural study comparing the earliest memories of college students, researchers found that the average age for earliest memory was much earlier for the U.S.-born students than for the Taiwanese or Chinese students.