Exam 6: Memory-Part D

A study indicates that participants scored well in their psychology exams if they wrote them while being seated in desks placed in a quiet room.This illustrates:

Long-term memory can be retained for _____ and has a(n)_____ capacity.

Nate is going to the grocery store to pick up a few things.He decides not to write a list and instead repeats to himself,over and over on the way to the store,the items he intends to buy.This is an example of:

Dr.Gruber is running a memory experiment using fMRI.He asks a participant to remember a list of grocery items.Dr.Gruber notices that the occipital lobe of the participant's brain is particularly active during the encoding task.What type of encoding is the participant using?

Rita has meetings all week.She finds that,by Friday,she cannot clearly remember the meetings that she had earlier in the week because she confuses them with the meetings she had on the last two days of the week.This illustrates:

The persistence of intrusive memories,such as flashbulb memories,is often a result of:

A new acquaintance at a party tells you a telephone number in the hope of going out on a date.How long will it take for the number to be erased from your short-term memory?

Remembering the what,where,and when information about personal events that occurred in your life is a recollection made possible by _____ memory.

Casey just heard that Fargo is the most populous city in North Dakota.Using the concept of semantic encoding,we can say that she will remember this information better if she:

Remembering how to ride a skateboard,even though it has been a few years since you last used one,is a subtype of _____ memory termed _____.

Patrick witnesses a burglary.He is asked by the police to identify the burglar from a line-up of suspects.Patrick gets confused and points at the wrong man because he had seen him in the same place at a different time.This scenario illustrates:

Transience describes how our memories _____ details over time as stored memories become more _____.

While gardening,Greg tripped over a coil of wound-up hose and fell face first on the pavement.He suffered damage to the hippocampal region in his brain.While recovering in the hospital,he consistently greeted his friends and family as though he saw them again after ages,even though he had met them the previous night.He often forgot what he did during the day.However,he could still recall adventures from his teenage years without effort.Greg MOST likely has:

Krissy's _____ becomes active when she tries to recall what she received for Christmas when she was 10 years old.Successful recall of this information is accompanied by activity in the _____.

Jenny remembers her 16th birthday party vividly and recalls how her parents surprised her with a brand new car.This is an example of a(n)_____ memory.