Quiz #7: CH.7 Long-term Memory Encoding and Retrieval

Acquiring information and transforming it into long-term memory is _________.

encoding

Which example below best demonstrates state-dependent learning?

Although Emily doesn't very often think about her first love, Steve, she can't help getting caught up in happy memories when "their song" (the first song they danced to) plays on the radio.

__________ transforms new memories from a fragile state, in which they can be disrupted, to a more permanent state, in which they are resistant to disruption.

Consolidation

The principle that we encode information together with its context is known as

Encoding specificity

Retrograde amnesia is usually less severe for __________ memories.

Remote

__________ cues help us remember information that has been stored in memory.

Retrieval

In Slameka and Graf's (1978) study, some participants read word pairs, while other participants had to fill in the blank letters of the second word in a pair with a word related to the first word. The latter group performed better on a later memory task, illustrating the __________.

generation effect

The story in the text about the balloons that were used to suspend a speaker in mid air was used to illustrate the role of __________ in memory.

organization

Elaborative rehearsal of a word will LEAST likely be accomplished by __________.

repeating it over and over

The standard model of consolidation proposes that the hippocampus is __________.

strongly active when memories are first formed and being consolidated but becomes less active when retrieving older memories that are already consolidated

Shallow processing of a word is encouraged when attention is focused on __________.

the physical features of the word