Exam 8: Memory

Combining individual letters into familiar words enables you to remember more of the letters in this sentence. This best illustrates the value of

Karl Lashley trained rats to solve a maze and then removed pieces of their cortexes. He observed that storage of their maze memories

The reports of children who are interviewed by officials regarding an alleged incident of sexual abuse are most likely to be unreliable if

Encoding verbal information semantically involves

Effective retrieval cues trigger the process known as

Familiarity with an ongoing situation without any idea of where you experienced it before contributes to

Chickadees and other birds that store food in hundreds of places cannot remember the food storage locations months later if their ________ has been removed.

Our immediate short-term memory for new material is limited to roughly ________ bits of information.

The process of retrieval refers to

Mrs. McBride can't consciously recall how frequently she criticizes her children because it would be too anxiety-arousing to do so. Sigmund Freud would have suggested that her poor memory illustrates

Echoic memory refers to

The process of getting information out of memory storage is called

The amygdala boosts activity in the brain's memory-forming areas when stimulated by

Memory researchers are suspicious of long-repressed memories of traumatic events that are "recovered" with the aid of drugs or hypnosis because

When Hailey told her roommate about the chemistry exam she had just completed, she knowingly exaggerated its difficulty. Subsequently, her memory of the exam was that it was as difficult as she had reported it to be. This best illustrates

Every time we "replay" a memory, we replace the original memory with a slightly modified version. Researchers call this

Julie most accurately recalls information learned in her history classroom when her recall is tested in the very same classroom. This best illustrates

Which pioneering researcher made extensive use of nonsense syllables in the study of human memory?

Sigmund Freud emphasized that the forgetting of painful experiences is caused by a process that involves

Which part of the brain plays a key role in forming and storing the implicit memories created by classical conditioning?