Exam 7: Memory

The memory of standing on the podium after winning the gold medal and hearing the national anthem played is a vivid, lasting, and emotionally charged memory for Terrence and resulted from the heightened activity in the part of his brain known as the

Elaborative processing tends to result in

When discussing the relationship between short-term and long-term memory, the authors of your textbook use the analogy of a warehouse with filing cabinets and a desk. As information enters the warehouse, it is first placed on the desk. Because the desk is small, it must be quickly cleared off to make room for new information. While unimportant items are simply tossed away, personally or culturally meaningful information is placed in the files, which represent

Students can get a teacher off the subject by asking one slightly off-topic question, which sets up an association with another topic and then to another topic and so on until the teacher is "miles" from what she was originally teaching. This illustrates which model of memory?

People who are hungry usually score higher on memory tests than do people who are not hungry.

Regarding the research on recovered memories and the false memory syndrome, which of the following statements is FALSE?

Working memory, which is used for thinking and problem-solving, involves the combination of various mental processes with the stage of memory known as __________ memory.

A novice sailor who is having trouble telling port from starboard may remember that port and left both have four letters or may remind him or herself that "I left port." This illustrates the use of

As discussed in the text, one of the unfortunate results of the popular coverage of false memory syndrome cases has been the

As your friend reads her shopping list to you in her apartment, you are aware that the radio is playing in the background. The fact that you remember what your friend said and not what the announcer on the radio said can be attributed to

If you rehearse the Gettysburg Address until you have learned it to perfection, you can expect your memory for it to be

One of the major psychological defenses we use against emotional threats involves an unconscious forgetting known as

The pattern of associations among items of information within one's memory is referred to as

You are very thirsty. Suddenly you remember a time years ago when you became very thirsty while hiking. This suggests that your memory is

You and your family are leaving on a week-long vacation. As you leave your hometown behind, you begin to feel excited as you anticipate the adventures to come and start remembering other exciting vacations that you have taken over the years with your family. This suggests that your memory is

The memories currently stored in one's memory refers to the memory's

Kim is having trouble remembering her old phone number even though she had that number for ten years. It seems that her current phone number that she has had for two years is keeping her from remembering her old phone number. This is called

You must use explicit memory in answering the questions on your psychology test.

If two brain cells become more active at the same time, the connections between them grow stronger. This process is called

According to patterns of blood flow, procedural memories appear to be stored in the cerebellum and __________.