Chapter 6

Of the __ is damaged, a person has difficulty forming new memories.

Hippocampus

In order to better remember the information from his psychology text, Sheldon groups concepts into various categories and then studies those categories one at a time. Sheldon is using what type of memory strategy?

Categorization

When Angelica studies for her college classes, she actively thinks about the new information, thinks about its applications, and tries to generate her own examples based on her experience. This could be an example of which concept of memory?

Elaboration

Do you know how to play a piano without much conscious effort illustrates __ memory

Implicit memory

How to perform different skills and actions is a component of __ ?

Implicit memory

Which of the following statements is true about long-term memory?

It is analogous to a biochemical "hard drive."

Brown and McNeil's experiment on the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon revealed that:

Memory storage systems of humans are indexed according to both visual and audio cues.

According to your text, if you have adequate sight you also have what kind of memory?

Photographic

Because of her poor health, your aunt B had to take lots of medication. She usually does a good job at remembering to take it but sometimes forgets to do so. This forgetting is a failure of what type of memory?

Prospective memory

Essay tests are examples of __

Recall

After telling the police officer everything he could recall about when he went to the bank, Lucas got to the point that he could no longer recall any for information. At that point, Lucas was most likely experiencing __

Retrieval cue failure

Clive wearing could remember how to play the piano, but he couldn't remember his birthday party that occurred last year. His inability to remember events from the past is an example of deficits in which type of memory?

Retrospective

Although Crystal had practiced her presentation several times before class, she struggled in the middle part of the speech when she gave it in class. This pattern of forgetting illustrates __

The serial-position effect

In the context of organization in long-term memory, a __ is an arrangement of items into groups or classes according to common or distinct features.

hierarchy

The flow of visual information seems smooth and continuous because of __ memory, which can hold visual stimuli for up to a second.

iconic

In the context of memory and forgetting, one of the cognitive explanations for infantile amnesia states that:

infants do not make reliable use of language to symbolize or classify events.

Explicit memory is:

information that can be clearly stated.

The critical factor in state-dependent retrieval is the influence of:

the person's mood at the time a memory is encoded and retrieved

The Atkinson-Shiffrin model of stages of memory intends to __

determine whether and for how long information is retained in memory

_____ is the loss of memory of personal information that is thought to stem from psychological conflict or trauma.

dissociative amnesia