Exam 6: Memory

At a loud party, Kimberly met so many new people that when she ran into one of her new acquaintances on campus the next day she was unable to remember his name. The MOST likely explanation for her forgetting the name of her new acquaintance is:

Merely repeating information over and over is called _____, while focusing on the meaning of the information is called _____.

The _____ is involved in encoding and transferring new explicit memories to long-term memory.

Research by psychologist Richard F. Thompson and his colleagues demonstrated that the:

If information in short-term memory is not actively rehearsed, the information is transferred to long-term memory.

Psychologist George Sperling is one of the most widely recognized authorities on eyewitness memory and the different ways it can go awry.

Describe the duration and capacity of short-term memory.

An In Focus box in your textbook discussed a particular memory ability that H.M. demonstrated many years after his surgery. Which of the following is an example that was described in your textbook?

The brains of people with Alzheimer's disease develop:

As James watched Haley wave the Fourth of July sparkler back and forth, he noticed that the sparkler seemed to produce a trailing afterimage that faded within a split second. Which type of sensory memory can account for the quickly fading afterimage of the sparkler?

Distinguish how REM and non-REM sleep diversely contribute to memory consolidation, and speculate about possible mechanisms for these effects.

During the short-answer essay part of the examination, Ethan was absolutely certain that he knew the definition of long-term potentiation, but he could not think of it. Which of the following is the most likely explanation for Ethan's inability to retrieve the information from his long-term memory?

In a cross-cultural study comparing the earliest memories of college students, researchers found that the average age for earliest memories was much earlier for U.S.-born students than for Taiwanese or Chinese students.

The phonological loop and the visuospatial sketchpad are:

The amount of information that can be held in long-term memory:

Sensory memory is also called working memory.

According to the Enhancing Well-Being with Psychology feature, which of the following helps the process of consolidating new memories?

How can you increase the length of time that you can hold information in your short-term memory?

Why were nonsense syllables used in the earliest studies of forgetting?

According to British psychologist Alan Baddeley's working memory model, the phonological loop: