Exam 8: Memory

How do the results of Lashley's classic research on maze memory among rats inform an evaluation of connectionist models of memory?

Dr. Ingraham is a psychodynamic psychologist. His colleague Dr. Jorgensen is a cognitive psychologist. Which of the potential explanations for dissociative disorders described in your text is each of these psychologists likely to favor?

Physical memory disorders are to psychological memory disorders as _________ are to __________.

How are organic memory disorders, amnesic disorders, and dementias related?

The activation of a specific memory triggers the activation and potential retrieval of other memories. This is termed ________.

Which of the following is the MOST accurate description of the relationship between the information processing and connectionist models of memory?

What type of amnesia is described as the ongoing inability to form new memories after the onset of a disorder or event?

Illustrate Ebbinghaus's forgetting curve and describe the pattern of memory loss depicted.

Rhonda can't remember anything about the first several minutes immediately following a car crash in which she was injured. Rhonda is experiencing _______ amnesia.

Which of the following is the most likely mechanism by which misinformation might impair a witness' memory for the actual events in a crime?

Dr. Deblanc is conducting an experiment. Two groups of participants study a word list in a psychology laboratory. Some time later, one group attempts to recall the words in the same laboratory; the other group tries to recall the words in a very different environment, a nearby city park. Dr. Deblanc is probably investigating the influence on memory of:

Which type of memory disorders are associated with physical causes?

Describe one approach to improving brain fitness in people aged 65 years and old.

Which of the events is least likely to result in a flashbulb memory?

Orlando swears he remembers the cake and the guests at the party his parents held in honor of his 4^th birthday. In reality, Orlando merely remembers the snapshots of the event he viewed in his Mom's photo album much later in his childhood. Orlando's manufactured memory reflects:

You need to remember the phone number of the local pizza parlor and you repeat the number to yourself until you have it entered in the telephone. What type of memory code was used to encode that information?

Memory is the faculty for recalling past events and past learning.

Representations based on the meaning of information are referred to as_______codes.

Recognition tasks are often harder than recall tasks.

Laurent, a college freshman, seems to have forgotten a painful and humiliating experience he endured earlier in his adolescence. Dr. MacEwan suggests that Laurent has avoided rehearsing the event, and avoided situations that might provide cues for its retrieval. Dr. Norris counters that Laurent unconsciously pushed the event from his awareness. Dr. MacEwan is probably a(n) _________ psychologist, while Dr. Norris is likely a(n) _________ psychologist.