Exam 6: Memory-Part C

Collaborative inhibition is due to the social loafing phenomenon.

Memory misattribution involves assigning a recollection or an idea to the wrong source.

In a typical collaborative memory experiment,participants encode information in small groups and then attempt to recall them on their own.

Source memory refers to general concepts that serve as the building blocks for new memories.

Once consolidated,memories are relatively permanent fixtures in the brain.

A person with only retrograde amnesia cannot remember aspects of his or her past but can form new memories.

Kelly's memory of the first goal she scored in organized soccer is an example of a semantic memory.

Eric Kandel won the Nobel Prize by demonstrating long-term memory in the Aplysia,a one-celled organism.

Thinking about a word's meaning results in a deeper level of encoding than does listening to how it sounds or thinking about how it looks.

Memory retrieval is a single,identifiable process in the brain.

Survival-related information is easily encoded into memory precisely because little or no planning is needed to encode biologically relevant information.

Long-term memories tend to be stored in the hippocampus.

We can hold about seven meaningful pieces of information in our short-term memory.

Visual imagery encoding activates brain regions in the parietal lobe.

Collaborative recall typically is better than the combined efforts of the same individuals recalling information on their own.

When we remember something,our brains create exact duplicates of perceptual experiences.

Sensory storage can hold information for only a few seconds or less.

Iconic memories persist slightly longer than do echoic memories.

Taj recently changed the password to his e-mail account;now he cannot remember his old password,illustrating the effects of proactive interference.

Most people would be incredibly accurate at matching names to faces from their high-school yearbook,even decades after they graduated.