Exam 6: Section 2: Memory

During Monica's appearance on a popular quiz show, the host asked her to name the capital of Russia, and Monica immediately blanked out. She knew that she knew the answer, but she just couldn't recall it. This illustrates:

Iconic memories usually decay in about _____ or less.

Michelle had a very important midterm paper due in less than an hour, so she rushed to her class in her car with the paper in the passenger seat. After she parked the car, she raced into class, leaving the paper behind. Michelle experienced:

Which statement accurately summarizes the effects of sleep on long-term storage?

Short-term memory can hold:

Actively relating new information in a meaningful way to knowledge already in memory is the definition of _____ encoding.

The hippocampus is involved in _____.

College students typically recall more good grades than bad grades when they look back at their high school experiences. This illustrates the memory phenomenon known as:

The negative effect of group recall on memory is termed:

The process of bringing to mind information that has been previously encoded and stored in memory is known as:

The impairment of memory for recently learned information by previously learned information is known as:

Forty-year-old Eli was prompted to recall information about the first college football game he attended as a freshman student some 22 years earlier. Specifically, he was asked information about if his team won, the weather, who accompanied him to the game, if he consumed alcohol before the game, and the size of the crowd at the game. Sometime later, Eli and his twin brother William, who also was at the game but did not experience the initial interview, were asked to recall as many details about the game as possible. Which would Eli be MORE likely than William to forget?

When Keith was asked to recall how he felt at the beginning of his current relationship with his wife, Joni, his recollections were more similar to his present-day feelings than they actually were at the time. This illustrates the memory phenomenon known as:

College students are shown a series of pictures and asked to recall them 3 months later. Which picture would the students LEAST likely remember?

Research has indicated that, 50 years after graduation, people can accurately recognize _____ percent of their classmates from yearbook photographs.

There are two types of explicit memory, _____ memory, which is for facts and knowledge, and _____ memory for personally experienced events.

Aplysia is a(n):

Kandel and colleagues stimulated the tail of an Aplysia with a mild electric shock, which caused contraction of its gill. If the investigators were to immediately stimulate the tail of the Aplysia again, the gill would contract more _____, indicating _____ memory of the shock.

Monique Roberts wanted to find a fun way to help her students prepare for their forthcoming history exam. She decided to create a game show with questions about different countries and their governments. Which type of memory would the students rely on to answer the questions?

Chad recalls that Jack the Ripper was a serial killer who terrorized London in 1888, but he has no idea if he originally learned this information from a book, a television show, a movie, or a story from another person. Chad is experiencing a failure of _____ memory.