Exam 6: Memory-Part A

College students are shown a series of pictures and asked to recall them 3 months later.Which picture would the students LEAST likely remember?

In MOST people,the long-term memory store has:

After watching a program about the Revolutionary War,participants were more likely to associate electricity with Benjamin Franklin than Thomas Edison-even though this was not discussed in the program-due to:

Yo-Yo Ma,a world-famous musician,left his multimillion-dollar cello in the trunk of a taxi.What might have caused him to forget something so important to him?

With respect to retrieving memories,search is to find as the _____ is to the _____.

The statement "Cells that fire together wire together" implies that,as a result of information exchange between two neurons:

Making a new memory is MOST analogous to:

The fast-decaying store of visual information that is forgotten in seconds if not attended to is known as _____ memory.

After having spent half a day touring the Chicago Institute of Art,Emily had seen hundreds of paintings.To maximize her potential for remembering as many paintings as possible,she decides to categorize each painting depending on its artistic style: neoclassical,realistic,romantic,impressionist,abstract,and so on.This method of memorization is called _____ encoding.

Echoic memories usually decay in about _____ second(s).

Janet uses semantic judgment in encoding new terms encountered in her sociology class.fMRI studies reveal that the part of her brain likely to be MOST active during this process is the _____ lobe.

A participant studied the following word pairs: reptile-snake,reptile-turtle,reptile-lizard,amphibian-frog,amphibian-salamander,and amphibian-newt.Then the participant practiced recalling only the amphibian-salamander pair using the prompt "reptile-liz_____." Sometime later,the participant was given a memory test of the words he had originally studied.Of these,which word would be MOST likely forgotten?

Participants in a study were asked to recall an episode from their memory.During this recollection,new information somewhat related to the episode was presented to the participants.During a follow-up memory test two days later,participants:

Angelika hears a story.The next day,she is asked to answer questions about the story.Which brain structures are MOST responsible for her accurate recall?

Caitlyn was blanking on who played Batman in the movie Batman v.Superman until her friend gave her the hint that he was married to Jennifer Garner.Caitlyn correctly identified the actor as Ben Affleck,and the hint is an example of a(n)_____ cue.

Long-term potentiation has been studied primarily in which brain region?

The case of HM is a documented case of a patient who could not form new long-term memories due to the removal of his _____ and parts of his temporal lobe.

Some psychologists who study memory believe that the role of the hippocampus is to:

Semantic encoding is related to an increase of activity in which brain regions?

Sensory information is kept for a few seconds or less in: