Exam 6: Memory

Déjà vu experiences are typically triggered by a visual scene, but can involve all of the senses.

Sensory memory allows you to hear a series of musical notes as a melody.

It was only after years of extended repetitions of information that the amnesia patient H.M. acquired some bits and pieces of new knowledge about a few famous people.

The famous Ebbinghaus forgetting curve:

According to _____, the more similar the information in two memories is, the more likely it is that _____ will occur.

The research of psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown that:

Maintenance rehearsal is a more effective strategy than elaborative rehearsal for encoding information into long-memory.

Maintenance rehearsal:

Describe Hermann Ebbinghaus's research and what it demonstrated.

Forgetting the true source of a memory, or attributing a memory to the wrong source, is called source confusion.

The inability to recall information that was previously available to memory is called:

Eric couldn't remember any of his childhood until he went for psychotherapy to treat his anxiety disorder. After just a few sessions, Eric started remembering the painful incidents in his childhood in which he was beaten and made to feel ashamed. Eric's difficulty in remembering his childhood was probably because of:

In comparing the earliest memories of European American college students and Chinese and Taiwanese college students, psychologist Qi Wang found that the earliest memories of which of the following tended to focus on general, routine activities involving family or community members, such as playing in the park or eating with family members?

In Qi Wang's study, characteristics of earliest autobiographical memories for European American college students tended to reflect a relatively _____ relationship of the self to society.

In relation to amnesia, "backward moving" is to _____ as "forward moving" is to _____.

What happens to information in short-term memory that is not further processed or rehearsed?

Marcia says, "Oh, I know that actor's name. I just can't remember it right now." Marcia seems to be having a tip-of-the-tongue experience.

For most adults, earliest autobiographical memories are of events occurring between the ages of _____ and _____ years old.

Research has shown that the bits and pieces of information that people usually recall during a tip-of-the-tongue experience are completely unrelated to the blocked memory.

After switching departments at work and getting a new phone number, Anne finds that it is harder to remember her previous department's phone number. Anne is experiencing _____, which occurs when forming a new memory makes it harder to recall a previous memory.