Exam 6: Memory

Retrograde amnesia is to anterograde amnesia as ________.

Which memory system has a virtually unlimited capacity and can keep information for hours or decades?

Suzy's mother went over the shopping list with Suzy before sending Suzy off to the store.Suzy accidentally left the list at home,so if she is to get the correct items from the list she must use which kind of memory task?

As memories get older,they are most likely ____________________.

Shalissa has two exams today.One is in French and the other is in history.Last night she studied French before history.When she gets to her history test,all she can remember is French! Shalissa's memory is suffering from _____________.

Animal leads to dog.Dog leads to retrievers.Retrievers leads to golden retriever.And golden retriever leads to "Hannah," your first golden retriever.If you accessed the name of your first golden retriever using this process,you would have employed the use of:

Darius is studying for his chemistry exam,and there is a very complicated formula that he knows he will have to remember.In order to remember it,he reads it out loud from his textbook several times and then tries to repeat the formula without the book.This is a memory strategy called:

If one wants to increase the efficiency of short-term memory,more items can be held through the process of __________.

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

Evidence suggests that short-term memories are stored in the _____________.

Janet has a comprehensive final for her organic chemistry class.For her to be able to retain the information from early in the semester,she should be advised to use ________ in her studying throughout the term.

________ uses the analogy of a workbench to describe this short-term memory function.

The fading of memory with the passage of time marks decay and which of the "Seven Sins of Memory"?

Researcher Elizabeth Loftus has found that eyewitness memory is extremely reliable and doesn't change over time.

Short-term memory is another name for ______ memory.

Years old and had a stroke last year.He is now unable to remember how to get to and return from his new doctor's office using a specific route.The brain structure that was potentially damaged by the stroke was the ________..

Which of the following was formerly known as Korsakoff's syndrome,and is related to brain damage due to thiamine deficiency?

Which technique,though questionable in its validity,is widely used by therapists to help clients recover lost childhood memories?

Emilio is seeing a sports psychologist to help improve his mental preparation and performance.The psychologist asks Emilio to see himself making his free throws.As Emilio visualizes his dribbling,shooting motion,and release,he sees himself as an outside observer would.Memory researchers argue this demonstrates:

Hermann Ebbinghaus found that the forgetting of memories is a linear process that happens gradually over time.