Concept Quiz 7.4 Flashcards
The reduction in the ability to retrieve rarely used information over time is called ____.
Decay
Mr. Langley’s former high school Latin students are holding a 25-year -reunion. He surprises them with a vocabulary game show quiz. His students most likely ____.
Have retained much of the vocabulary they knew in high school
Which of the following is the best description of interference?
Competition between newer and older information in memory
Who was part of a team that demonstrated persistent changes in the strength of synapse responsible for several types of learning in sea slugs?
Eric Kandel
Research has shown that ____ plays an important role in the consolidation of memories.
Sleep
Which of these statements about long-term memory is not true?
Older people are less able to add new information to their long-term memories than younger people
fMRIs have shown that prefrontal areas of the brain appear to actively ____ memories that are used less frequently.
Suppress
Kevin is legally required to send a quarterly check to his former wife, whom he divorced 20 years ago. It annoys him greatly, and he finds that he often forgets until several days after the due date. This is likely an example of ____.
Motivated forgetting
The effect of our motivations on our retrieval of memories ____.
Can lead to distortion so that the original information is hardly recognizable
Learning changes neutral structure in that neurons have ____ axons and terminals following sensation.
Larger numbers of
Most styles of memories appear stronger after ____.
Sleep
Aaron is studying for his sensation and perception exam by explaining terms and concepts to his friend Catherine and his own words and providing self-referential examples. This is called ____.
Recitation
A classic method of measuring the retention of material in long-term memory over time is to ____.
Compare the rate of learning material the first time to the rate of learning the material a second time
____ is a confusion between imagined and true memories.
Confabulation
____ enhanced communication between two neurons.
Long-term potentiation
