Exam 6: Memory

________ encoding is a sort of mental glue that helps you connect new information that you want to remember to older information that has previously been stored in long-term memory.

You are out for a drive with the family and are lucky enough to get a window seat.The rapidly passing scenery you see out the window is first stored in __________ memory.

A time machine provides you with the opportunity to interview Sigmund Freud.During the interview,Freud admits that he never wanted to attend medical school.When you ask him how he made it through,he says,"I had eidetic imagery." What does he mean by that?

Research seeking the engram,conducted by Karl Lashley,has conclusively demonstrated that:

When given a list of items to remember,people tend to do better at recalling the last items on the list.This is known as the ______.

The best analogy for the way long-term memory is conceptualized would be _________.

The portion of memory that is more or less permanent is called ______ memory.

Your textbook suggests that there are over ______ different kinds of commercial memory aids available for purchase.

________ appears to be the basis for learning and memory at the neuronal level.

When people hear a sound,their ears turn the vibrations in the air into neural messages from the auditory nerve,which makes it possible for the brain to interpret the sound.This process is called __________.

Someone a short distance away,to whom you have been paying no attention,quietly speaks your name,and suddenly you attend to that person.This is an example of __________.

In the curve of forgetting developed by Ebbinghaus,the greatest amount of forgetting occurs _____________.

A memory cannot be encoded unless you are

The process of brain ________,which involves monitoring brain activity when a witness sees an actual culprit of a crime as opposed to someone physically similar to the culprit,can help reduce eyewitness misidentification.

Which type of long-term memory is most difficult to bring into conscious awareness?

The tendency to recall things that are presented at the end of a sequence is called the __________ effect.

A super-memorist is a person with exceptional memory ability.

The belief that one remembers events,especially traumatic events,that have not actually occurred is called ________ syndrome.

In __________,a person must produce required information by searching memory without the help of retrieval cues.

Janie is taking an exam in her history class.On the exam there is a question that asks her to state and discuss the five major causes of the Trans-Caspian War (whatever that was!).Janie remembers four of them.She knows there is a fifth,but time is up.As Janie is walking down the stairs,all of a sudden,she remembers the fifth point,but it is too late.Janie had a problem with __________.