Exam 6: C: Memory

You are asked to recall the word that means "a woman who houses and manages prostitutes." You are confident that you know what the term is,and you feel as though you are about to remember it,but it just will not pop out of your memory.You are experiencing:

The auditory equivalent of the icon is the ____________.

The process we use to notice important stimuli and ignore irrelevant ones is ______.

The hippocampus seems to be essential for __________.

Why is implicit memory so difficult to study?

An individual's semantic memory contains:

One feature of the Atkinson and Shiffrin model of memory is that:

Christine has always had an unusually effective memory.She credits this to the fact that after seeing something just once,she can visualize the object in great detail,as if she was looking at a photograph of it.Christine's ability is an example of ________.

Information that was either unintentionally committed to or unintentionally retried from memory is known as ___________ .

Chunking is a means of _______.

Which of the following statements about the visual sensory memory system is false?

Your tutor has "one last word" for you before she ends today's session.She tells you to study material in the middle of your study session a little harder.What concept from memory research is the basis of her advice?

Sensory store memory:

The sensory registers _____________.

Retrieval cues ______.

The passing of time causes forgetting according to ___________.

Your memories of personal information such as what you wore to work yesterday,what you ate for breakfast this morning,or who your spouse is,are stored in ______.

Your street address,telephone number,and social security number are stored in:

"Forgetting that occurs as a function of the passage of time" defines ________.

Tim is studying for a test.After seven consecutive hours of studying he finds he can remember what he just finished studying,but he can no longer remember what he studied five or six hours ago.Tim's memory problems are BEST explained by _____________.