Concept Quiz 7.3 Flashcards
Declarative memories are consciously retrieved memories that are easy to verbalize and include ____.
Semantic, episodic, and autobiographical information
____ memory is organized like a timeline.
Episodic
Priming is a change in response to a stimulus as a result of exposure to a ___.
Previous stimulus
Scientists have discovered correlations between activity in parts of the human brain and specific components of long-term memory through the observation of ___.
Patients with brain damage and brain-imaging studies in healthy participants.
Within the category of declarative memories, far more is known about ____ organizations than other types of organizations.
Semantic
A cue is ____.
Any stimulus that helps you access target information
A declarative memory that is accessed in a conscious, direct, and effortful manner is also called ____.
An explicit memory
Professor Sevilla asks one of his graduate students, Leland, to finish his class lecture on memory. Leland begins by explaining that nondeclarative memories (1) are unconscious and effortless, retrieved memories; (2) are easy to verbalize; (3) include memories for classical conditioning, procedural learning, and priming, and (4) also known as implicit memories. Which part of his definition is inaccurate?
Nondeclarative memories are easy to verbalize
Alex is starting his day. Which of the following represents a procedural memory?
He brushes his teeth
The hippocampus ____.
Participates in the consolidation of information into long-term memory
What theory views the mind as an interconnected network made up of simpler units?
Connectionist Theory
Recognition of tasks are easier than recall tasks because ___.
They provide more cues
Marietta has memorized the capital cities of all 50 states. This is an example of ____ memory.
Semantic
An implicit memory for how to care out a motor skill or action is called ___.
Procedural memory
Procedural memories are easy to describe in words.
False
