Quiz 7: Memory

The _____ is involved in encoding and transferring new explicit memories to long-term memory.

hippocampus

This is a relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of a person's memory system.

Long -Term memory

_____ aids can be used to help remember things such as speeches or lists of items. These aids often incorporate the use of vivid imagery and organizational devices.

Mnemonic

Visual sensory memory is to auditory sensory memory as _____ is to _____.

iconic memory; echoic memory

The _____ is involved in encoding and storing memory for the sequence of events, but not for the events themselves.

prefrontal cortex

The _____ is especially prominent when you have to engage in a serial recall task, such as remembering a list of items in their original order.

primacy effect

Dr. Napleton prefers to give his students all essay and fill-in-the-blank questions to fully test their:

recall

Research on memory construction reveals that memories:

reflect a person's biases and assumptions.

During the LAST stages of Alzheimer's disease, the most common symptoms are:

the inability to recognize loved ones, loss of the sense of self and identity, and the inability to communicate in any meaningful way.

Memory is formally defined as:

the mental processes that enable us to acquire, retain, and retrieve information.

Short-term memory is often referred to as _____ memory.

working

The retention of encoded information over time is called:

storage

_____ is the process of retaining information in memory so that it can be used at a later time.

Storage

____ is due to conscious, deliberate forgetting as _____ is due to unconscious forgetting.

Suppression; repression

Which is the best explanation for encoding failure?

The information enters one's short-term memory, but it is never encoded into long-term memory.

The _____ is the neural center involved in processing explicit memories for storage.

hippocampus

Memories of emotional events are especially likely to be facilitated by activation of the:

amygdala.

One strategy to increase the amount of information that can be held in short-term memory is to group related items together into a single unit. This strategy is called:

chunking.

According to _____ theory, we forget memories because we don't use them and they simply fade away over time as a matter of normal brain processes.

decay

We transform information into a form that can be entered and retained by the memory system. This process is known as:

encoding.

Mabel has Alzheimer's disease and her _____ memories for people and events are lost, but she is able to display an ability to form new _____ memories by being repeatedly shown words.

explicit; implicit

During the EARLIEST stages of Alzheimer's disease, the most common symptoms are:

forgetting names of familiar people and the locations of familiar places.

The inability to recall information that was previously available to memory is called:

forgetting.