Exam 5: A: Memory

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 u

You start out using Netscape,then change to Explorer because your company demands that browsers be Microsoft products.If you have trouble with Explorer,it is most likely due to ______________.

For which famous memory researcher is memory a problem-solving activity in which the problem is to give a coherent account of some past event,and the memory is the solution to that problem?

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

Evidence suggests that procedural memories are stored in the hippocampus,whereas short-term memories are stored in the occipital and temporal lobes of the cortex.

In anterograde amnesia,memory for anything new becomes impossible,although old memories may still be retrievable.

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 and can almost remember it;she knows that it is something like Texas.Janie is walking down the stairs,when all of a sudden,she remembers that the fifth point is taxes,but it is too late.Janie was suffering from ______________.

Declarative memories are to ________ memories as procedural memories are to __________ memories.

_______ rehearsal results in a more lasting memory and promotes the transfer of information to long-term memory compared to _______ rehearsal.

The best place to take your biology exam to ensure good retrieval of biology concepts is in _____________.

ECT,or electroconvulsive shock therapy,can disrupt consolidation and cause retrograde amnesia.

The only time selective attention is not working at its peak is _____________.

Retrieving information from long-term memory is done by assembling information from various brain locations in a process known as ______________.

Semantic and episodic memories may be stored in the frontal and temporal lobes as well but in different locations than short-term memory.

Which of the following statements is true of retrieval cues?

Personal facts and memories of one's personal history are parts of ___________.

In the 1950s,George Miller estimated the number of items that could be stored in short-term memory to be the magic number __________.

Casual mention of an existing object will increase the likelihood that it will be remembered later on,making eyewitness testimony vulnerable to suggestion.

Hindsight bias is the process of altering memories of the past so that they are more in line with accurate information that is learned later-the Monday morning quarterback effect.

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