Exam 6: Memory

According to Table 6.3 in your text, which of the following is NOT one of the factors that contributes to false memories?

The graphic representation of the results of Ebbinghaus's research is called the:

Eric Kandel's research with the sea snail Aplysia demonstrated that memory formation involves functional and structural changes in neurons.

"My first memory? I can remember the nature walks that our preschool class took almost every day. It was really just a city park that had a small lake and was about three blocks away, but I remember all of us walking in pairs, holding hands, and crossing the streets." According to the research discussed in the Culture and Human Behavior box, memories of general, group activities centered on family or community members were most likely to be:

The process of converting new long-term memories into stable, enduring memory codes is called:

The fMRI study described in Focus on Neuroscience, "Assembling Memories," showed that retrieving a sensory memory reactivates the same sensory area of the cortex that was involved in the initial perception of the event.

Long-term memory functions much like a tape recorder or camera; it captures, stores, and maintains a perfect record of everything that a person experiences.

Jamie found the ISBN of the book she wanted to order in the Books in Print catalog. To remember the 11-digit number, 19772552901, she thought of the number as the year her best friend was born (1977) and her aunt's phone number (255-2901). Jamie used the strategy of _____ to help her remember the ISBN number.

Which psychologist trained a rat to run a maze, then tried to identify the location of the memory by removing a tiny portion of the rat's brain?

In a cross-cultural study investigating first memories, Chinese and Taiwanese college students usually reported first memories focusing on routine activities that they shared with members of their family or social group.

_____ is the process of accessing information stored in long-term memory.

In a study by Elizabeth Loftus, subjects watched a film of an automobile accident, then answered a series of questions, including one asking them to estimate the speed of the cars. What factor affected the subjects' estimate of how fast the cars in the film were traveling?

Marcy was stood up by her date for the senior prom. She tried not to dwell on the painful experience, and after a few years she could remember only a few details of that humiliating evening. Marcy's deliberate attempt to forget that evening is an example of:

The amygdala processes emotional aspects of memory.

The tip-of-the-fingers phenomenon might occur when a person using American Sign Language has difficulty remembering a particular word needed in conversation, and can remember only the:

In Baddeley's model of working memory, one component called the _____ is specialized for verbal material, such as lists of numbers or words.

A cross-cultural study found that the content of earliest autobiographical memories for Taiwanese and Chinese college students tended to concern discrete events and the personal emotions they evoked.

When your short-term memory store is filled to capacity, new information displaces currently held information.

Researchers William Marmie and Alice Healy (2004) asked participants to study an unfamiliar coin for 15 seconds to 60 seconds. What did the study find?

Alzheimer's disease occurs in approximately _____ percent of men and women aged 65 to 74.