Exam 7: Memory

Varian is finding it hard to learn Greek in his first year of college because he took Latin in his last two years of high school. This is an example of _____.

The two major systems of long-term memory are _____.

You need to buy ten grocery items: meat, poultry, raisins, soda, tomatoes, oranges, milk, cookies, apples, and tea. Illustrate how you would use each of the following mnemonic devices to remember this list: method of loci, outline organization and acronyms. .

Short-term memory receives information from _____ memory.

When you blow dry your hair in the morning, you are using _____.

Knowledge of facts and the relationships between them is called _____ memory, whereas knowledge of events is called _____ memory.

If you erroneously recall the reading the word "sleep" on a list of words like ""snooze, nap, rest, wake, doze," you are probably _____.

Cramming is another term for _____, which is an inefficient form of studying.

Hormones _____ memory.

Your vivid memory of what you were doing when you learned about the attack on the World Trade Center is an example of _____.

Ralph fell through the floor of his tree house and found himself in the hospital. He has no memory of his hospital stay, which suggests he has developed _____ amnesia.

Describe the retrieval process, focusing on retrieval cues, recognition, recall, and priming, illustrating each with a personal example.

In answering this question, the correct multiple-choice option may serve as a _____ for recalling accurate information from your long-term memory.

______ is (are) important if one wants to learn and remember a great deal of information.

The memory subsystem that stores unconscious procedural skills, simple classically conditioned responses, and priming is called _____ memory.

Of the three memory stages, _____ has the greatest capacity and the longest duration.

This is an encoding technique linking new information to previously stored material in LTM.

The immediate goal of elaborative rehearsal is to _____ new information.

The three steps in memory processing are _____.

According to retrieval failure theory, memories stored in LTM are _____.