Chapter 6 & 7: Long-term memory

Elementary school students in the U.S. are often taught to use the very familiar word ""HOMES"" as a cue for remembering the names of the Great Lakes (each letter in ""HOMES"" provides a first-letter cue for one of the lakes: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior). This memory procedure usually works better than repeating the names over and over. The use of this familiar word provides an example of

elaborative rehearsal

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

A patient suffering from Korsakoff's syndrome, such as ""Jimmy G"" who is described in your text, would be able to perform which of the following activities without difficulty?

identifying a photograph of his childhood home

According to your text, imagery enhances memory because...

imagery can be used to create connections between items to be remembered.

From the behavior of H.M., who experienced memory problems after a brain operation, we can conclude that the hippocampus is important in

long-term memory acquisition

In the movie Groundhog Day, Bill Murray's character grows frustrated as he experiences the same day in his life over and over again. With each ""passing"" day, he is able to respond to people's actions more and more quickly because of

repetition priming

Examples from your book describing real experiences of how memories, even ones from a long time ago, can be stimulated by locations, songs, and smells highlight the importance of ____ in LTM

retrieval cues

Jenkins and Russell (1952) presented a list of words like ""chair, apple, dish, shoe, cherry, sofa"" to participants. In a test, participants recalled the words in a different order than the order in which they were originally presented. This result occurred because of the

tendency of objects in the same category to become organised

Jeannie loves to dance, having taken ballet for many years. She is now learning salsa dancing. Although the movements are very different from the dances she is familiar with, she has found a successful memory strategy of linking the new dance information to her previous experiences as a dancer and to her own affection for dance. This strategy suggests reliance on

the self-reference effect

According to Tulving, the defining properties of the experience of episodic memory is that

it involves mental time travel