Exam 8: Memory

Sandy is taking both introductory and cognitive psychology courses this term and the first midterm for each course is on the same day.Sandy studies for her introductory psychology course for several hours and then cognitive psychology course for several hours.When she takes her exam for introductory psychology course first thing the next morning,the information she studied for cognitive psychology course interferes with her ability to recall the introductory psychology course material.This is a clear example of:

Try as she might,Zoey cannot remember anything from the first three years of her childhood.Which of the following is NOT considered a possible explanation for infantile amnesia?

There is clear evidence that someone could actually repress a memory for many,many years.

Research with expert and novice chess players by Chase and Simon revealed that experts were able to accurately recall the placement of more chess pieces than novices after a 5-second glance when:

When the encoding specificity principle is applied to ____________,we can adequately explain the phenomenon of context-dependent memory.

If I present you with the word "BOOK" and ask you if this word contains all lowercase letters,answering this question involves the use of ___________ encoding.

The memories of children who were undergoing painful medical procedures reveal that:

The tendency of people to remember words at the beginning and end of a list better than words presented in the middle of the list is called the ______________________.

A researcher studies a person who suffered anterograde amnesia after a serious car accident damaged his hippocampus.According to the text,he would probably be using which of the primary approaches to studying the brain systems involved in memory?

Researchers now believe that memories are not stored like video recordings at various locations in the brain,but rather,are distributed throughout the brain.The region of the brain that plays an important role in consolidating our memories before they are stored across the brain is the ________________.

Faulty source monitoring refers to:

Automatic processing refers to incidental information that gets stored in memory,while the encoding of memories that are intentionally initiated and occur through conscious attention is called ____________.

Our tendency to recall something or recognize it as familiar,but to forget where we encountered it is known as ________________.

After taking the college entrance exam,Sidney was very upset as she drove home.She felt she had done poorly on the exam.The fact that Sidney was able to drive the familiar route home and arrive safely,even though she was so preoccupied thinking about the exam is due to her __________ memory.

The phenomenon of _____________ memory is demonstrated by the fact that it is usually easier to retrieve information in an environment that is similar to the one in which it was encoded.

The phenomenon of state-dependent memory can be understood by applying the principle of encoding specificity to external stimuli and cues.

This component of working memory allows us to temporarily store and manipulate images.This component is the ______________.

The neural network approach to memory assumes that nodes in a network are physical in nature and do not contain individual units of information.

Prior to transferring information to long-term memory,both elaborative and maintenance rehearsal keep information active in __________ memory.

Some memory theorists propose that memory can be represented as being similar to a massive system of linked ideas and concepts such as a(n)______________.