Exam 5: A: Memory

Which of the following might be the most appropriate analogy for eidetic imagery?

"The effectiveness of memory retrieval is directly related to the similarity of cues present when the memory was encoded to the cues present when the memory is retrieved." What concept does this statement describe?

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

As memories get older,they are most likely ____________________.

Iconic memory is the visual sensory memory,in which an afterimage or icon will be held in neural form for about .50 to 2.00 seconds.

A man known as H.M.lost the ability to form new memories after an operation removed portions of his ____________.

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 _____________.

Proactive interference as used in the study of memory refers to when _____________.

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

Shaquin finished his term paper and handed it in.As he walked out of the classroom,he realized that there were a few more things he should have included in the paper.Shaquin's problem is the __________ component of memory.

The case of Father Bernard Pagano,who was identified by seven eyewitnesses as a criminal,was an instance of a ____________.

A patient's chart indicates he just had surgery to remove his hippocampus as a result of a tumor.What change do you anticipate in the patient after the operation?

It is thought that long-term memory never can get filled u

Pezdek and colleagues have found that false memories are more likely to be formed for implausible false events than for plausible ones.

Patients with anterograde amnesia were taught to solve the Tower of Hanoi problem.It was later found that they remembered solving the problem and could do so again.

In this view,memories are literally "built" from the pieces stored away at encoding.This view is called ______________.

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 ____________.

When memories are stored in long-term memory,which of the following forms of information is used?

Memories for general facts and personal information are called _________.

Using the partial report method,Sperling found the capacity of iconic memory to be around _____________.