EXP 3604C CH 6

K.C., who was injured in a motorcycle accident, remembers facts like the difference between a strike and a spare in bowling, but he is unaware of experiencing things like hearing about the circumstances of his brother's death, which occurred two years before the accident. His memory behavior suggests

an intact semantic memory but defective episodic memory.

The inability to assimilate or retain new knowledge is known as

anterograde amnesia.

Your book discusses the memory functioning of patient H.M. who underwent brain surgery to relieve severe epileptic seizures. H.M.'s case has been extremely informative to psychologists by demonstrating that

STM can operate normally while LTM is impaired.

Explicit memory is to _____ as implicit memory is to ______ .

declarative; nondeclarative

"I remember being really excited last year, when my college team won the national championship in basketball." This statement is an example of _____ memory.

episodic

One of the defining properties of the experience of episodic memory is that

it involves mental time travel

Memory enhancement due to conceptual priming is a result of

the test stimulus being similar in meaning to the priming stimulus

Memory enhancement due to repetition priming is a result of

the test stimulus being the same or resembling the priming stimulus.

The defining characteristic of implicit memory is that

we are not conscious we are using it.

The primacy effect (from the serial position curve experiment) is associated with

LTM.