Exam 6: Memory-Part C

Conceptual priming is an explicit memory,and perceptual priming is an implicit memory.

Blocking tends to occur more frequently as people age.

Sleep aids in memory by facilitating the consolidation of important-but not unimportant-information.

The search for "John Doe 2" in the aftermath of the 1995 terrorist attack on the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was the result of a suggestible eyewitness.

The memory of a person with amnesia can be primed.

Transience increases the efficiency of human memory.

Explicit memories can affect our current behavior,even if they are outside of conscious awareness.

The amygdala is involved in the consolidation of emotional memories.

Retrieval cues always are external stimuli in the environment.

Hermann Ebbinghaus first described how information in long-term memory is forgotten with the passage of time.

Blocking results when we try to retrieve information that has faded from memory.

Episodic memory allows us to engage in mental time travel.

Memory reconsolidation primarily occurs each morning after we awaken from sleep.

The tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon is an example of blocking.

The hippocampus is necessary for acquiring new semantic information.

Kandel's work with Aplysia demonstrated that short-term memory involves the growth of new synaptic connections among neurons.

Organizational encoding activates the upper portion of the left temporal lobe.

The amygdala plays an important role in the formation of flashbulb memories.

Long-term memory has no known capacity limits.

Transience refers to forgetting that occurs as a result of divided attention.