Memory (AP)

The more you do a task, the less prompting your sending neuron will need to send its message.

A person hates the government, so will tend to seek out evidence to support their opinion & ignore contrary evidence.

Hermann Ebbinghaus discovered our memory has a ______ and then a _______.

You dreamed that you got in a fight with your best friend. Later, you think the fight actually happened.

Rephrasing what we read and hear into meaningful terms makes us more likely to remember. Why?

This type of memory allows us to recall events long after they have occurred.

Remembering how to tie your shoes or brush your teeth is a function of our ______ memory.

In class, as your thoughts drift to the weekend, the teacher asks you to recall her words. You can recall the question

In the hippocampus, when the left side is damaged, you have difficulty recalling __________.

Being classically conditioned (respond without thought) to flinch at the sound of your mom yelling your name:

Which part of the brain is mostly involved in our implicit memories?

Remembering the capitals of all 50 U.S. states is an example of ______ memory.

This type of mnemonic aids memory by taking the first letter of each item to be remembered and spelling a word from it.

Being able to remember your new locker combination, but not the one from middle school:

Which of the following statements about memory is false?

Essay type questions make the greatest use of which type of memory retrieval?

After an accident, Eva can no longer form new long term memories - what is the condition?

After Bucky's mind was erased, he had no memory of his life before becoming the Winter Soldier.

Which of the following factors is the most important if one is going to get/keep new information in LTM?

When you dance, you are accessing procedural memory; which is a form of:

Your working/STM has a recall capacity of about ___.

The emerging research on excessive media multitasking and it's effects on cognition suggest which of these is true?

This type of processing often causes you to read this this sentence and not see the error right away.

Phenomenon that supports the concept that memories are reconstructed rather than remembered like a video.

Much better to study in small intervals leading up to a test, rather than just the night before.

Shown a picture of a tree, then asked to define "bark", one is more likely to say "part of a tree" than "sound of a dog"

In order to remember any kind of information, we must _____ information into our LTM.

After exposure to subtle but false information, many people create false memories. This is known as

This actively processes incoming information from the environment and information retrieved from LTM.

_________ is Long Term Potentiation (LTP) in reverse.

You have trouble learning your new address after you move from your old home.

Which part of the brain is most involved in our explicit memory?

Facts that you can recall from history class, would be an example of:

This allows us to process our environment very quickly, although the information is forgotten just as quickly.

"Muscle memory" is an example of _____ memory.

Which specific type of rehearsal holds information in your ST/Working memory only until it is used or lost?