Name: Chapter 6 Review Crossword Puzzle Instructions: Print this document, complete the crossword puzzle (see Page 2), and submit in hard copy directly to Professor Calabrese at the start of class on Wed. 2/27 for 2 bonus points. The bonus points will be applied toward your total number of points earned in the course (up to 500). You may work with your classmates, but each person needs to hand in their own completed puzzle to receive credit. Across 4. the very first stage of memory, the point at which information enters the nervous system through the sensory systems. 5. the brief memory of something a person has just heard. 7. the ability to focus on only one stimulus from among all sensory input. 11. loss of memory from the point of injury or trauma forward, or the inability to form new long-term memories 13. memory that is consciously known, such as declarative memory 14. initials of the system of memory into which all the information is placed to be kept more or less permanently. 15. any memory strategy that aids in encoding, storage, and retrieval of memories. 16. holding onto information for some period of time. 19. visual sensory memory, lasting only a fraction of a second Down 1. the memory for events and facts related to oneself. 2. the tendency to remember information at the beginning of a body of information better than the information that follows. 3. an active system that receives information from the senses, organizes and alters it as it stores it away, and then retrieves the information from storage 5. the ability to access a visual memory for 30 seconds or more. 6. the inability to retrieve memories from much before the age of three. 8. type of automatic encoding that occurs because an unexpected event has strong emotional associations for the person remembering it. 9. getting information that is in storage into a form that can be used. 10. type of declarative memory containing personal information not readily available to others, such as daily activities and events. 12. loss of memory due to the passage of time, during which the memory trace is not used 17. the ability to match a piece of information or a stimulus to a stored image or fact. 18. the set of mental operations that people perform on sensory information to convert that information into a form that is usable in the brain's storage systems.