Exam 6: Memory

In the brain, simple memories may be _____ and complex memories may be _____.

Massed practice, or cramming, the night before a test is one of the most effective ways to study and learn new material.

"My first memory? I can remember when I was almost three years old and going to my mom's hospital room just after my little brother was born. My aunt handed me my little brother all wrapped in a blanket and I remember just looking at him for the longest time, and thinking how he was so little." According to the research discussed in the Culture and Human Behavior box in your text, memories like this one that focus on a specific event and the person's feelings about the event were most likely to be:

In one classic study described in your text, participants viewed slides showing the use of a screwdriver in a burglary. Later they read a written account of the break-in that featured a hammer instead of a screwdriver. When tested for their memory of the images in the slide presentation:

As a general rule, the more closely retrieval cues match the original learning conditions, the more likely it is that retrieval will occur.

Research with the sea snail Aplysia has demonstrated that:

The research of psychologist George Sperling demonstrated that the maximum capacity of short-term memory is four items of information, plus or minus one.

From another room, Jenny called out to Leonard to ask where he had put the car keys. At first, Leonard thought he hadn't heard what Jenny had asked, but a few seconds later, the question registered in his mind and he answered, "On the coffee table." Which type of sensory memory can explain this phenomenon?

Repeatedly testing yourself about new information you have learned:

When the sea snail Aplysia acquires a new memory of a classically conditioned gill-withdrawal reflex, which of the following does NOT occur?

According to the In Focus box in your text, for most people the déjà vu experience probably involves the common memory processes of:

According to _____ theory, we forget memories because we don't use them and they simply fade away over time as a matter of normal brain processes.

Recovery therapists have been criticized for using highly suggestive techniques, such as hypnosis, in trying to "recover" supposedly repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse.

According to Culture and Human Behavior: Culture's Effect on Earliest Memories, autobiographical memory is closely related to episodic memory and refers to events of your life-your personal life history.

When new information is learned, some information is rapidly forgotten relatively quickly. Information that is not forgotten tends to be retained in long-term memory for a long period of time.

Which of the following factors contributes to imagination inflation?

You can keep information in short-term memory beyond the usual 20-second duration by:

Chloe could not remember the name of the husband of a very important client. So Chloe began reciting the alphabet until a letter triggered her memory, and she could remember the name. The letter of the alphabet:

Perceiving a picture activates areas of the _____, just as perceiving a sound activates areas of the _____.

Although there is ample evidence that information in long-term memory is clustered and associated, memory researchers still do not completely understand how information is organized in long-term memory.