Chapter 7 Questions

Topics:
1. Partial report is the requirement to recall only part not all of what is seen. Partial report shows the fading of the visual sensory memory by not being able to recall any visual at all.
2. The serial position effect is recalling items from the beginning and the end of a list.  It has two different effects, the primary effect referring to the better memory of items at the beginning. The recency effect is the better memory for the most recent items or items at the end.
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4. One mnemonic strategy is practice, repeating the action until it is easier to perform. Another mnemonic strategy is to get adequate sleep, a good night's rest.
5. Two causes of false memories are unrelated brain areas being activated and size of difference in neural activity.

Questions:
1. Working memory is the system that allows us to process information, the part of what is in mind that one is thinking about at any given moment. It is used by holding our thoughts in mind while doing something with them. Its limitations are that it is only a temporary store.
2. Forms of long-term memory are, explicit memory-the process involved when people remember specific information, implicit memory-the system underlying unconscious memories, declarative memory-the cognitive information retrieved from explicit memory, semantic memory-the memory for knowledge about the world.
3. Procedural memory indicates that long-term memory is organized according to meaning because this involves motor skills, habit and other behaviors employed to achieve a goal.
4. We retrieve information from long-term memory by recalling information and moving it from long-term into working memory
5.  Henry Molaison losing his declarative memory after suffering damage to the medial temporal lobe including the hypocampus indicates that the MTL and hypocampus play an important role in declarative memory. Henry Molaison could no longer make long-term memories or remember new experiences.