Chapter 1 Matching Activity

The Study of Memory

________ is the strengthening of neural connections due to repeated activity in the same area.

Bartlett’s proposed that we use ________ to complete our memories and guide our perceptions.

Ebbinghaus conducted the first empirical research on memory by creating a large list of ________ to use as the stimuli in his experiments.

The ________ is a(n) mnemonic that can help people remember information by visualizing information in various places in a well-known location.

The main principle of ________ is the whole is more than the sum of the individual parts.

Memory without conscious awareness is called ________.

Memory with conscious awareness called ________.

Like Aristotle, the philosophers Hume, Mills, and Locke were ________ meaning they focused on memory’s connections to other thoughts and experiences.

Early neuroscience work by Gall, Broca, and Wernicke suggested that memory for language was ________ in specific areas of the brain.

The ________ by Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968) guided memory research for many years.

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