Exam 8: Memory

Which measure of memory did Ebbinghaus use to assess the impact of rehearsal on the retention of nonsense syllables?

Conscious rehearsal of what you just heard a friend tell you requires

During the day,Bekah learned a lot of information about World War II.During her sleep that night,memories of this history were transferred from her hippocampus to areas within her brain's cortex.This transfer best illustrates

After suffering a brain injury in a motorcycle accident,Arotza cannot form new memories.He can,however,remember events before the accident.Arotza's memory difficulty most clearly illustrates

Memory researchers have found that ________ is especially strong among members of individualist Western cultures.

Repeated rehearsal of your teachers' lectures and reading assignments leads to lasting memories thanks to the neural process of

Cheri doesn't remember that she got sick after eating oatmeal on several occasions in early childhood.However,whenever she smells oatmeal now she experiences a classically conditioned feeling of nausea.Cheri's conditioned reaction indicates that she retains a(n)________ memory.

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

When Loftus and colleagues asked observers of a filmed car accident how fast the vehicles were going when they smashed into each other,the observers developed memories of the accident that

Sherry easily remembers the telephone reservation number for Holiday Inn by using the mnemonic 1-800-HOLIDAY.She is using a memory aid known as

Professor Schmidt has participants play violent video games and then perform a word-completion task.In this task,participants have to complete each word with its missing letter.In all cases,the missing letter could form a word related to aggression.Professor Schmidt hypothesizes that playing violent video games is associated with aggressive behavior.More than likely he believes this relationship is related to

Briefly glancing at a visual scene without consciously processing it may lead us to experience ________ when we subsequently focus conscious attention on the scene.

The encoding of information directly into long-term storage without the aid of working memory best illustrates

Some of the information in our ________ memory is encoded into ________ memory.

By creating an outline in which specific facts and theories are located within the larger framework of major topics and subtopics,Jasmine can remember much more of what she reads in her textbooks.This best illustrates the benefits of

Explicit memories are

Implicit memory is to explicit memory as ________ is to ________.

We lack conscious awareness of many procedural memories partially because of limited neural communication from the

Students who study throughout the term and then restudy course material at the end of a semester to pass a comprehensive final are especially likely to demonstrate long-term retention of the course material.This best illustrates

To remember a list of the school supplies she needs,Marcy mentally visualizes each item at a certain location in her house.Marcy's tactic best illustrates the use of