Exam 6: Memory

From studies of other human patients with similar kinds of brain damage, it is clear that the memory impairments H.M. experienced are highly unusual.

What does psychologist George Miller describe in his paper entitled "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two"?

Exactly three years ago today Denise was eating lunch with two friends at a restaurant when a very confused man came into the restaurant and began firing a gun at the pictures hanging on the walls. Denise remembers many details of that day, including the clothes she was wearing and what she ate for lunch. Denise has such clear memories of that day partly because those memories are characterized by a high degree of:

According to the working memory model developed by British psychologist Alan Baddeley, the _____ is to verbal material as the _____ is to visual or spatial material.

The phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad, and central executive are:

Declarative memories are consolidated during _____ sleep.

In his eighth-grade history class, Michael had to recite Lincoln's Gettysburg Address from memory. Michael did well at the beginning and end of the address, but forgot some sentences in the middle. This example illustrates the serial position effect.

For decades, _____ studied a famous man known for many years as H.M.

Summarize what psychologists have learned about memory from the famous case of H.M., including Brenda Milner and Suzanne Corkin's work with this patient.

Short-term memory is often referred to as _____ memory.

Sensory memory briefly stores our sensory impressions of the world so that they overlap slightly with one another.

The research of psychologist George Sperling demonstrated that the maximum duration of sensory memory is about 30 seconds.

In Qi Wang's study, the average age European American college students reported for their earliest autobiographical memories tended to be _____ the average age Chinese and Taiwanese college students reported for their earliest autobiographical memories.

When the patient known for years as H.M. was a young man, doctors surgically removed his _____ in an attempt to treat his epileptic seizures.

Karl Lashley originally believed that the engram, or memory trace, was stored in a particular area of the brain.

By the final interview in the "lost-in-the-mall" study by psychologist Elizabeth Loftus:

Psychologist Stephen Lindsay and his colleagues (2004) had 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. Compared to the participants who did not look at their first-grade class photo, the participants who did look at their first-grade photo were:

According to British psychologist Alan Baddeley's working memory model, the visuospatial sketchpad:

What is a flashbulb memory, and in what ways is it similar to and/or different from an ordinary memory?

Which of the following statements about the role of neurons in long-term memory is TRUE?