Exam 6: Learning and Remembering

In general,memory is better after __________ practice than __________ practice.

Disruption of memory of events occurring after brain injury,especially a disruption in acquiring new long-term memories,is called ___________________.

The deliberate cycling or practice of information is called __________.

The mnemonic that relies on a person using a previously memorized rhyme is called __________.

Forgetting may occur if the information is ___________ in long-term memory,but not ____________.

What is the catastrophic loss of memories beyond what would be expected by normal forgetting?

Left hemisphere lesions of the hippocampus generally yield amnesia for only verbal memories.

Which does NOT belong?

What is the self-reference effect?

During a TOT state,a person has access to __________ in long-term memory.

Explicit processes are potentially reportable; implicit processes are those that are not.

Massed practice leads to more enduring memories than distributed practice does.

Recall tasks often underestimate the amount of information that was learned.

Retrograde amnesia is a loss in the ability to form new memories.

Each item is encoded into a richer memory representation-one that includes any extra information about the item that was present during encoding.The hypothesis that the specific nature of an item's encoding,including all related information that was encoded along with it,determines how effectively the item can be retrieved.This describes __________.

Amnesia is __________.

Metamemory is __________.

__________ is a useful prompt or reminder for the information to be retrieved.

Maintenance vs.elaborative rehearsal is primarily associated with __________.

The primary stimulus materials used by Ebbinghaus in his research were ___________________.