Exam 6: Memory

Remembering your first day of college classes is an example of ________ memories.

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

Recall is a type of memory retrieval in which the information to be retrieved must be "pulled" out of memory with few or no cues.

Micah is trying to remember the specific route he took to the library the night before.What part of working memory is he accessing?

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?

Which of the following distinguished sensory memory (SM)from short-term memory (STM)?

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.Janie remembers four of them.She knows there is a fifth and can almost remember it;she knows that it is something like taxes.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 ______________.

A police officer is shot in a gun battle with bank robbers.Although emergency brain surgery saves his life,it leaves him unable to store new information.The officer's family is applying to the state for compensation for his injuries.When asked to provide a diagnosis of the difficulties he suffers,what will they write?

Maintenance rehearsal is defined as ________________.

Long ago,during the early days of television,when a television set was turned off it took a while for the last image that was on the screen to fade away.This phenomenon is most like __________.

Loni is asked to memorize the letters I K T E A L N in no particular order.She memorizes them by reorganizing them into the words INK and LATE.This tactic is called ______.

What type of memory stores brief visual images and for how long are these images stored?

The first step in the memory process is __________information in a form that the memory system can use.

According to the semantic network model,it would take less time to answer "true" to which sentence?

Godden and Baddeley found that if you study on land,you do better when tested on land,and if you study underwater,you do better when tested underwater.This finding is an example of_______________.

Name the three parts of the information-processing model of memory.

The research of Eich and Metcalf would suggest that if you were really happy when you were learning math,you should be ______ when taking the math exam to do well.

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.

Examples of tests that use recognition are _____________.

If ____________is like losing a document in the computer because of a power loss,__________ is like pushing the "save" key and having the document disappear instead of being stored.