Memory Review

Many psychologists today strongly back the argument that repression is a serious issue in many communities

People tend to recall the last items in a list especially quickly and accurately. This best illustrates

The term working memory represents psychologists’ newer understanding of

An example of a mnemonic device would be ROYGBV (colors of the rainbow)

What is a retrieval cue?

Infantile amnesia likely exists because the hippocampus is not fully developed in infants

What is deja vu?

Loss of encoded memory as a result of gradual fading of the physical memory trace best illustrates

Memories for well-learned skills such as how to ride a bicycle are typically ________ memories.

Iconic = auditory; echoic = visual

What is chunking?

The spacing effect is the tendency for distributed study to yield better long-term retention than through massed study

Implicit memory holds things like facts and birthdays; explicit memory holds things like learned skills (e.g. walking)

Research on memory construction indicates that

When an eyewitness to an auto accident is asked to describe what happened, which measure of memory is being used?

Short-term memory only has a capacity of ~20 items

Implicit memory is also known as declarative memory

The distinction between automatic and effortful processing most clearly highlights the nature of

To remember something, we must 1) learn 2) encode and 3) retrieve

An inability to retrieve information learned in the past is called

Recency effect and primacy effect often go together (serial position effect)

Which neural center in the limbic system helps process explicit memories for storage?

What improves memory consolidation?

The basal ganglia help you form implicit memories of

Tim learns the sentence "Never Eat Soggy Waffles" as a way to remember compass directions. This is an example of

A lasting physical change in the brain as a memory forms is called a memory trace

Recall and recognition are the same thing

Memory reconsolidation involves the modification of stored memories following the process of

Memory is the persistence of learning over time

The recall of sad experiences is often primed by feelings of sadness. This most clearly illustrates

What is the ability to draw information out of storage and into conscious awareness?

Which part of the brain plays a key role in forming and storing the implicit memories created by classical conditioning?

The inability to remember whose face appears on a five-dollar bill is mostly likely due to failure in

What is the inability to access information in long-term memory?

Hearing the word rabbit may lead people to spell the spoken word hair as h-a-r-e. This best illustrates

What is long-term memory?

Stress hormones provoke the ________ to boost activity in the brain’s memory-forming areas.

There is no explanation for deja vu; it is a spiritual phenomenon

To help think about the processes involved in memory, some memory researchers have developed

We encode implicit memories by means of