Exam 6: Memory

According to the working memory model developed by British psychologist Alan Baddeley, the phonological loop is the component that is specialized for spatial or visual material, such as remembering the layout of a room or city.

Consider this sentence: "Sean was able to get the dog to come out from under the abandoned house by shaking a bag of dog food." In order for you to consciously make sense out of the sentence, your _____ processed the information.

As Erin watched the small airplane start its engine, she could see the trailing, fading images of the propeller twirling. This is an example of visual sensory memory.

According to George Miller, capacity of short-term memory:

New information can distort the recollection of information that is already stored in long-term memory.

When a new memory interferes with an old memory, _____ is said to have occurred.

According to the Focus on Neuroscience feature "Mapping Brain Changes in Alzheimer's Disease", cross sections of the brain of a person who died of Alzheimer's disease showed:

Following the death of his father, Scott was extremely despondent for several weeks. During this time, Scott seemed to dwell on other unpleasant memories and other sad experiences in his life. Scott's recall of other sad memories is an example of:

Another name for explicit memory is _____ memory.

Tip-of-the-tongue experiences:

"What is that noise?" Jennifer asked. Her roommate Brooke explained, "That's my timer going off. I set it to remind myself to call my instructor as soon as her office hours begin." Brooke is using one of the strategies suggested in your psychology text to:

Because she didn't have a piece of paper handy, Mary mentally repeated the long-distance phone number over and over. Mary tried to keep the information in:

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

Research has consistently shown that eyewitness recall about a crime is almost always completely accurate.

After many years of research, Karl Lashley concluded that memories were distributed throughout the brain rather than stored in a particular area.

When you are in a positive mood, you are more likely to recall positive memories. This phenomenon is referred to as _____, and it is one form that _____ can take.

Explain how imagining a false event or experience can produce a false memory of the event, listing at least three factors that are involved in this effect.

Describe the conditions that lead to long-term potentiation, and describe what happens within the neural circuit that is strengthened.

The Focus on Neuroscience feature on mapping brain changes in Alzheimer's disease summarizes a study that discovered that the disease first attacks the thick bundle of axons called the corpus callosum, which is the main communication link between the two hemispheres.

"Okay, your recital is next Saturday night," Candy reminded her piano student. "You're doing great, but for the next couple of days, I want you to practice by starting with the middle third of the piece until you've got it down perfectly." As a piano teacher, Candy is trying to help her student counteract which of the following memory tendencies?