Exam 6: Memory

Echoic memory is the auditory form of sensory memory, which takes the form of an echo that lasts for up to 4 seconds.

You are learning a list of items for a test by relating the items to each other and to information that you already have stored in memory. Which type of rehearsal are you using?

A mnemonist is a person with exceptional memory ability.

Many older adults can vividly recall where they were and what they were doing the day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated, although they cannot remember what they were doing the day before he was assassinated. This is an example of ________.

Bethany is trying to focus on a conversation across the room during a party she is attending. This is because she thinks she heard her name above the din of the conversation. Her ability to hear her name is due to the mechanism of ________.

Loftus and others have found that people constantly update and revise their memories of events, adding information to a memory that occurred later even when that information is in error.

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

The fleeting images we see as we look out the car window occur in ________ memory.

The hippocampus appears to be responsible for the storage of new long-term memories. If it is removed, the ability to store anything new is completely lost.

Evidence suggests that procedural memories are stored in the hippocampus, whereas short-term memories are stored in the occipital and temporal lobes of the cortex.

In the semantic network model of memory, concepts that are related in meaning ________.

It's Thanksgiving and the whole family has gotten together. You start to reminisce about your childhood and get into an argument with your brother. Both of you claim that you were the innocent victim of the other. This is an example of ________.

What we are thinking of at any given moment, or what we commonly know as "consciousness," is ________.

The fact that it is easier to recall items at the beginning and end of a list of unrelated items is known as the ________.

Studies have found that the BEST way to overcome the tip-of-the-tongue effect is to ________.

How do retrieval cues help you to remember?

In the 1950s, George Miller estimated the number of items that could be stored in short-term memory to be the magic number ________.

When given a list of items to remember, you are more likely to remember ________.

Why did research participants in Sperling's experiment recall so few letters stored in sensory memory?

Which technique is most widely used by therapists to help clients recover lost childhood memories?