Exam 6: Memory

Imagine that the first car you learned to drive was a manual transmission with a clutch, but the car you drive now is an automatic. Sometimes you find yourself reaching for the clutch that is no longer there. This example illustrates ________.

Which of the following might be the most appropriate analogy for eidetic imagery?

In anterograde amnesia, memory for anything new becomes impossible, although old memories may still be retrievable.

Bits of information are combined into meaningful units so that more information can be held in short-term memory through the process of ________.

Which of the following is NOT an example of long-term memory?

Which of these individuals is the most typical person involved in a case in which memories of past childhood abuse are recalled later in life?

The processes of encoding, storage, and retrieval are seen as part of ________ model of memory.

Loss of memory from the point of injury or illness forward is called ________.

Which of the following is an example of episodic memory?

Your memory of the moment you heard about the shooting of police officers in Dallas, TX in 2016 would be most appropriately termed a(n) ________ memory.

When the sound of the word is the aspect that cannot be retrieved, leaving only the feeling of knowing the word without the ability to pronounce it, this is known as ________.

Memory trace decay theory can explain forgetting from sensory memory and short-term memory but does not adequately explain forgetting from long-term memory.

Declarative memory can be divided into short-term memory and working memory.

Steve was recalling his first day in college, including walking into the wrong class, dropping his books as he left, and the long line at the registrar's office he encountered when he had to switch classes. These memories are examples of:

Iconic memory and echoic memory represent what many theorists call:

The memory for events and facts related to one's personal life story is called ________ memory.

Ebbinghaus found that information is forgotten ________.

A psychologist asks people to recall the name of their kindergarten teacher. Surprisingly, the majority of people correctly do this and comment, "Gee whiz, I haven't thought about that old bat [or old coot] in years!" Their ability to do so tends to conflict with which theory of forgetting?

One feature of the Atkinson and Shiffrin model of memory is that:

Long ago, during the early days of television, when a television set was turned off it took a while for the last image that was on the screen to fade away. This phenomenon is most like ________ memory.