Exam 6: Memory

Adam vividly remembers the accident that sent him to the emergency room to get stitches. This is an example of which type of long-term memory?

Of all the regions of the brain, the cerebellum plays the most critical role in the encoding of new episodic memories and the transfer of episodic memories from short-term to long-term memory.

Provide a detailed description of a research study by Elizabeth Loftus that demonstrates the misinformation effect, including the results and implications of the study.

Which stage of memory can be thought of as the workshop of consciousness?

As you take this exam, you actively retrieve information that you have learned and stored in your long-term memory. The information that you are able to consciously recall is an example of:

REM sleep facilitates consolidation of _____ memories.

Identify the major brain structures implicated in memory function, and describe the hypothesized role of each.

In the fMRI study described in the Focus on Neuroscience, "Assembling Memories," the participants who had memorized the label "dog" with the sound of a dog barking showed a high level of activation in the auditory cortex when they retrieved the memory.

Brandon vividly remembers when he had to go to the emergency room to get stitches on his left thigh. This is an example of:

Whenever Yvonne tried to recall her new cell phone number, she kept getting it mixed up with an old phone number. Yvonne's failure to remember her new phone number is probably due to:

"Can you believe it? Another cell phone, and this one looks expensive!" the cosmetics salesperson laughed as she waved the cell phone that the customer had left behind. "Well, put it in the drawer with the others," her co-worker said. "They'll probably come back for this one." Such everyday instances of absentmindedness are usually caused by:

Long-term potentiation refers to:

Using what you have learned about memory, explain why multiple-choice, matching, and fill-in-the-blank questions are easier to answer than essay questions.

When the gill-withdrawal reflex of the sea snail Aplysia has been successfully conditioned to a stimulus such as a squirt of water from a WaterPik, observed changes in the neural circuit include:

This multiple-choice test question is a good example of using _____ to test long-term memory.

Kyle is determined to do well on his final exams, and decides to apply what he has learned about elaborative rehearsal to his own studying strategies. Which of the following suggestions is NOT an effective way to engage in elaborative rehearsal?

To help understand how neurons change in response to the formation of a new memory, researchers have extensively studied:

A test that uses cued recall or recognition is usually easier than a test that uses free recall to measure long-term memory for information.

Which of the following statements about long-term memory is FALSE?

Which of the following are thought to be subsystems of long-term memory?