Exam 6: Memory

In the semantic network model of memory,concepts that are related in meaning _________.

In the partial report method of Sperling's study of sensory memory,the participants were to report _________.

Luria's mnemonist suffered from the problem of not being able to forget trivial things.

Sitting in a very noisy restaurant,you are able to screen out all the other conversations around you so you can listen to the friend with whom you are conversing.This is an example of _________.

_________ is the retention of memory for some period of time.

Moishe can remember only the first two items and the last two items on the grocery list that his wife just read to him over the phone.The other five items in between are gone.This is an example of the _________.

Janie is taking an exam in her history class.On the exam,there is a question that asks her to state and discuss the five major causes of the Trans-Caspian War.Janie remembers four of them.She knows there is a fifth and can almost remember it;she knows that it starts with a "T." Janie is walking down the stairs,when all of a sudden,she remembers that the fifth point is taxes,but it is too late.Janie was suffering from _________.

Remembering your first day of college classes is an example of _________ memories.

In this view,memories are literally "built" from the pieces stored away at encoding.This view is called _________.

If _________ is like losing a document in the computer because of a power loss,_________ is like pushing the "save" key and having the document disappear instead of being stored.

Evidence suggests that procedural memories are stored in the cerebellum,whereas short-term memories are stored in the prefrontal and temporal lobes of the cortex.

If one wanted to use the best method to get storage into long-term memory,one would use _________.

In the _________ model,memory is seen as a simultaneous process,with the creation and storage of memories taking place across a series of networks "stretched" across the brain.

Many middle-aged adults can vividly recall where they were and what they were doing the day that John F.Kennedy was assassinated,although they cannot remember what they were doing the day before he was assassinated.This is an example of _________.

A.R.Luria studied an individual with phenomenal memory.This person was a _________.

The fact that it is easier to recall items at the beginning and end of a list of unrelated items is known as the _________.

The best place to take your biology exam to ensure good retrieval of biology concepts is in _________.