Exam 6: Memory

H.M.'s ability to generate the last names of people who became famous after his surgery showed that H.M. retained a limited ability to form new _____ memories.

You will remember new material better if you actively think about the material, make associations to your own experiences, and come up with new examples of your own.

A small number of people (about one out of six) are unusually prone to déjà vu experiences, averaging about one a month.

The ability of H.M. to generate the last names of people who had become famous after his surgery showed that new _____ memories can be formed by structures outside the _____.

In both the "professor's office" study and the study about "Jack" performing everyday activities, participants experienced compelling false memories of details that would have been consistent with the situation.

In the prologue to Chapter 6, psychologist Elizabeth Loftus erroneously remembered finding her mother's body in her uncle's swimming pool. What contributed to Loftus's false memory of this event?

The Ebbinghaus forgetting curve shows that:

Which of the following statements about sensory memory is FALSE?

What changes occur in the brain in response to the formation of a new long-term memory?

Whether it is visual or auditory, sensory memory registers a limited amount of information from the environment but holds that information for up to 20 seconds.

The term schema refers to:

Based on his research, Ebbinghaus found that:

Richard Thompson discovered that the memory trace of a simple conditioned reflex in a rabbit was, as Lashley had concluded, distributed throughout the brain.

Stimulants and stress hormones tend to disrupt memory consolidation.

Psychologist Stephen Lindsay had a group of research participants look at their first-grade class photo and read a description of a prank they were led to believe they had committed in the first grade-putting Slime in the teacher's desk. Another group of participants read the description, but did not look at their class photo. Participants who looked at their first-grade photo were much more likely to believe they had committed the prank than participants who did not look at their first-grade photo.

The capacity of short-term memory is virtually limitless.

One effective method to enhance long-term retention is to:

Justin was involved in an automobile accident and sustained a serious injury to his head. When asked about the accident, Justin could not remember what happened or how the accident occurred. Justin seems to be suffering from:

Although Morgan had practiced her speech several times, she had trouble remembering the middle part of the speech when she gave it in speech class. This pattern of forgetting illustrates:

Much of your sense of self is derived from memories of your unique life experiences. These particular kinds of memories are referred to as _____ memories.