Exam 6: Section 4: Memory

The encoding specificity principle states that retrieval cues which induce novel cognitive states are especially powerful at evoking memory retrieval.

Without rehearsal, information cannot be stored in short-term memory beyond about 5 seconds.

Contestants on quiz shows typically use episodic memory to come up with correct answers.

Failures of prospective memory usually are due to blocking.

Damage to the prefrontal cortex often results in name blocking.

The executive functions of working memory occur in the occipital lobe of the brain.

In correct chronological order, we encode, retrieve, and store memories.

Remembering the past and envisioning the future activate two distinct memory systems in the brain.

In a typical collaborative memory experiment, the group of participants asked to recall information with others is termed the nominal group.

Elizabeth Loftus's "lost at the mall" study illustrates the power of memory misattribution.

fMRI scans reveal reduced hippocampal activity during true recognition relative to false recognition.

A memory is less likely to be distorted the more often it is retrieved.

The hippocampus is highly involved in the priming of memories.

Emotional events tend to be better remembered than nonemotional events.

The tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon is an example of blocking.

George Miller first described the curve of forgetting.

The memory that Paris is the capital of France is a semantic memory.

The more times a memory is retrieved, the more accurate it becomes.

Blocking tends to occur more frequently as people age.

Because he suffered from anterograde amnesia, the patient HM was unable to transfer new information from short-term into long-term memory.