Exam 5: C: Memory

It's Thanksgiving and the whole family has gotten together.You start to reminisce about your childhood and get into an argument with your brother.Both of you claim that you were the innocent victim of the other.This is an example of __________.

Memories that concern events that are highly significant and are vividly remembered are called ______.

_____________ memory is constantly updated.

Laboratory studies using the recall of letters and numbers indicate that short-term memory is probably coded __________.

Which technique is widely used by therapists to help clients recover lost childhood memories?

____________ is defined as an active system that receives information from the senses,organizes and alters information as it stores it away,and then retrieves the information from storage.

Long-term memory is organized in the form of semantic networks,or nodes of related information spreading out from a central piece of knowledge,according to the work of ____________.

The fact that it is easier to recall items at the beginning and end of a list of unrelated items is known as the ______.

A display of 12 letters is flashed on a screen in front of you followed by a tone.You attempt to recall a portion of the display based on the specific tone you heard.What aspect of your memory is this experiment designed to assess?

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