Exam 8: Memory

A person's memory for personal events or moments from their life is called

When you are introduced to an older gentleman with a big bushy moustache,you NOT help but think of your Uncle Frank who also has a similar moustache.In this example the moustache is a ___.

A person's memory for general facts and knowledge is called

How are organic memory disorders,amnesic disorders,and dementias related?

What has empirical research had to say regarding the idea that people repress the memory of unpleasant events?

Mica,5 years old,was very good at remembering details such as the jersey numbers of her favourite hockey players.When asked how she did it,she mentioned that she relied on a highly detailed team picture that she has at home.This example illustrates what memory phenomenon?

Tim has just finished watching a horror movie.Afterward,when his cat knocks over a plant,Tim jumps in fright.This is an example of ___ which is part of ___ memory.

Parker's wife has been showing periodic lapses in attention and recent forgetfulness.When they discuss it with her doctor,he says that it sounds like the initial stages of Alzheimer's disease,but that he can't be sure.Parker asks him to do whatever tests are necessary to get a confirmed diagnosis.What is the doctor likely to say?

According to your text,the need to reconstruct rather than simply retrieve memories stems from the ___ code used in long-term memory.

The teacher asks Emil when his birthday is,and he answers "June 13??".According to the information-processing model of memory,what memory store would Emil be retrieving that information from?

How did Sperling's study establish that the length of iconic memory was about half a second?

Preston just recently passed away,and when examining his brain,the medical examiner observes some unusual characteristics.First of all,there were a large number of neurofibrillary tangles in the hippocampus and surrounding region.Furthermore,he sees many senile plaques in the space between neurons in the cerebral cortex and hippocampus.If this is what killed Preston,how did he die?

What does Ebbinghaus's forgetting curve tell us about the way we forget material over time?

The fact that we tend to rely on semantic codes when we encode information in long-term memory means that

Define priming.

Brenda has slept through her iPhone alarm.Although Brenda is still NOT awake enough to be aware of it,when it first goes off,the iPhone is playing a song that Brenda really likes.Later that evening when Brenda is at home,she decides to play songs from her iPhone.She immediately chooses the song from that morning.Brenda's choice of CD music reflects ___.

Accounting for two-thirds of all cases,what is the most prevalent form of dementia?

From which of the three memory stages does information enter working memory?

Which statement best expresses the relationship between attention and the memory activity of encoding?

Jackie and Lola are studying lists of words.After ten minutes Jackie begins to write down all the words she remembers,and Lola makes a quick phone call before writing down the words she remembers.In examining the words that each remembered,it is likely that Jackie will show a ___ effect,and Lola will show a ___ effect.