Exam 6: Memory

A soldier was injured when a mortar exploded next to him. Although he recovered from his wounds, he is not able to recall information from years ago. What term is used to describe this soldier's condition?

If you want to remember something for a couple of minutes, the MOST effective device is ________.

Adrianna is trying to memorize the names of the bones in the hand. She had gone through a list of them when her phone rang. After she gets off the phone, she is MOST likely to remember the first few bone names because of the ________.

Recall is a type of memory retrieval in which the information to be retrieved must be "pulled" out of memory with few or no cues.

You are out for a drive with the family and are lucky enough to get a window seat. The rapidly passing scenery you see out the window is first stored in ________ memory.

The BEST place to take your biology exam to ensure good retrieval of biology concepts is in ________.

In the curve of forgetting developed by Ebbinghaus, the greatest amount of forgetting occurs ________.

Recognition is the ability to match information with stored images or facts.

Malcolm, aged 35, is severely depressed. Because of this, he is given electroconvulsive therapy. After treatment, he is sent home and does much better. However, his TV-watching behavior is strange. Malcolm thinks that last year's episodes of his favorite series are new. Malcolm is showing signs of ________.

The constructive processing effect refers to the tendency of people who are asked misleading questions or given misleading information to incorporate that information into their memories of a particular event.

Pezdek and colleagues found that for a person to interpret thoughts and fantasies about false events as true memories, ________.

Memories for both general facts and personal information are called ________.

Hindsight bias is the process of altering memories of the past so that they are more in line with accurate information that is learned later-the "Monday morning quarterback" effect.

Evidence suggests that procedural memories are stored in the ________.

Loftus has found that eyewitness memory is extremely reliable and doesn't change over time.

Infant memories are mostly implicit and therefore difficult to bring into conscious awareness. When children become more verbal, their explicit memories become more dominant.

Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia found in adults and the elderly.

Our memories of general knowledge items such as the meanings of words or the dates of famous historical events are stored in ________.

Chunking aids:

An explanation for the widespread storage of memories is that ________.