Exam 6: Memory

Some research has found that several different species of fish-salmon, bluefin or albacore tuna, and swordfish-contain high levels of an omega-3 fatty acid called ________.This substance may help memory cells in the brain communicate with each other more effectively.

The capacity of STM is _________ items.

Little Tammy is talking to her grandfather. She loves to listen to him tell stories about when he was a child. He has very vivid recollections of his youth and enjoys telling people about his fond memories. Unfortunately, grandpa has a difficult time remembering what happened within the last few days or weeks. If there are no physiological problems, grandpa's memory problems are best explained by ________.

Jessica took psychology in the fall semester and is now taking sociology. Several of the concepts are similar, and Jessica finds that she sometimes has trouble recalling some of the major psychological theorists. She keeps getting them confused with sociological theorists. Jessica's problem is most likely due to ________.

In the game show Jeopardy!, contestants are tested on general information. The type of memory used to answer these kinds of questions is ________.

If ________ is like losing a document in the computer because of a power loss, ________ is like pushing the "save" key and having the document disappear instead of being stored.

Short-term memories appear to be localized in the ________.

Last week Lisa took an abnormal psychology test and did not miss a question. However, when a guest speaker came to class a week later to talk about schizophrenia, she had trouble remembering some of the relevant class material. She remembered even less about the topic when she saw a news report on schizophrenia a month later. What memory phenomenon explains what Lisa is experiencing?

A display of 12 letters is flashed on a screen in front of you followed by a tone. You attempt to recall a portion of the display based on the specific tone you heard. What aspect of your memory is this experiment designed to assess?

Which of the following statements concerned with sensory memory is true?

A witness on the stand swears that he saw someone commit a crime. Must you believe that the testimony is valid when a witness testifies so forcefully?

Which of the following is most likely to be a flashbulb memory for most people?

Retrograde amnesia is to anterograde amnesia as ________.

Janie is taking an exam in her history class. On the exam, there is a question that asks her to state and discuss the five major causes of the Trans-Caspian War. Janie remembers four of them. She knows there is a fifth and can almost remember it; she knows that it starts with a "T." Janie is walking down the stairs, when all of a sudden, she remembers that the fifth point is taxes, but it is too late. Janie was suffering from ________.

________ 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.

Information in short-term memory is retained ________.

A police officer is shot in a gun battle with bank robbers. Although emergency brain surgery saves his life, it leaves him unable to store new information. The officer's family is applying to the state for compensation for his injuries. When asked to provide a diagnosis of the difficulties he suffers, what will they write?

The Internet, with its series of links from one site to many others, is a good analogy for the organization of ________ memory.

When a person's ________ is damaged or removed, anterograde amnesia, or the inability to form new memories, results.

Memory is defined as an active system that consists of three processes. They are _________.