Exam 6: Memory-Part C

Repeating a telephone number over and over until you can write it down or dial it is an example of rehearsal.

In correct chronological order,we encode,retrieve,and store memories.

Hippocampal amnesics have difficulty imagining new experiences.

Neurotransmission between two neurons physically changes the synapse,or space between these neurons.

Implicit memory is a subtype of procedural memory.

The scent of a former partner's cologne may serve as a strong retrieval cue,bringing instant thoughts of him or her.

New information can be held in short-term storage for several days before it is transferred to long-term memory.

Patient HM's memory loss was primarily due to the removal of a large section of the prefrontal cortex in an attempt to stop seizure activity.

Episodic memory allows us to think about past events but is not involved in our ability to envision the future.

Kandel's work with Aplysia demonstrated that short-term memory involves enhanced neurotransmitter release.

The memory that Paris is the capital of France is a semantic memory.

Flashbulb memories are more vivid but are forgotten more easily than are ordinary memories.

Divided attention is associated with an increase in lower left frontal lobe activity.

If you can consciously recall a memory,it is an explicit memory.

Drugs that block long-term potentiation produce effects similar to severe retrograde amnesia.

Retrieval of a memory may promote forgetting a related memory.

Boy bands were extremely popular about a decade ago but are somewhat ridiculed today.If young adults were asked today to rate how much they liked boy bands as teens,they probably would underestimate their teen preferences;this phenomenon illustrates change bias.

The executive functions of working memory occur in the occipital lobe of the brain.

"Working memory" refers to active maintenance of information in sensory storage.

Taken together,the seven sins of memory expose human memory as a highly inefficient system.