Exam 7: Human Memory: Retention and Retrieval

Retention is BEST for material learned in a _____ arousal state.

What is the encoding-specificity principle?

Learning additional associations to an item can cause old associations to be forgotten.

An inability to learn new things is called _____ amnesia.

Why does hippocampal damage NOT eliminate old memories formed before the damage?

Eyewitnesses are often very accurate in the testimony they give.

What evidence suggests that forgotten memories are still stored?

The context in which a memory was formed can become a cue for that memory.

When an individual suffers memory loss for all the events that occurred before the event that caused this memory failure,the pathology is referred to as _____ amnesia.

_____ memories reflect general knowledge of the world.

The fact that individuals are more likely to remember stimuli presented to them previously if the contextual cues are the same at encoding and retrieval is referred to as the:

In Reder and Ross's (1983)experiment,they found that,in the exact recall condition,participants' response times:

Which statement is an apt description of the results of Cabeza,Rao,Wagner,Mayer,and Schacter's (2001)neuroscience study of word recognition?