Exam 8: Memory

John is feeling very happy and content today and has noticed that he seems to have a better memory for several positive events from his past.This example of improved recall best demonstrates the phenomenon of:

What are schemas and how are they related to expert knowledge.Illustrate their relation by discussing the research conducted with novice and expert chess players.

A(n)_____________________ is a stimulus that stimulates the activation of information stored in long-term memory.

Our tendency to recall something or to recognize it as familiar but to forget where we encountered it is called:

Research by Stephen Ceci and others has proposed that younger children are _______ susceptible than older children to the memory biases produced by suggestive questioning.

Research on the duration of iconic memory suggests that it is:

According to psychologist Alan Baddeley,working memory is divided into which of the following three components?

All of the following were mentioned as suggestions to improve memory EXCEPT:

The results of Hermann Ebbinghaus's research on forgetting revealed that forgetting tended to occur rapidly at first and then slowed down noticeably thereafter.

Imagine that you have studied for an exam in a noisy environment and your state of physiological arousal has been low while you were studying.If on the day of the exam you were given the test in a quiet environment and your physiological arousal was high (due to test anxiety),the concept of state-dependent memory would predict that your recall would be poor and the concept of context-dependent memory would predict that your recall would ___________.

Leslie was getting ready to landscape the yard of her new house.After researching and then shopping for specific trees,she decided on a beautiful magnolia for the showpiece of her garden.One of the things Leslie liked the most was the unusual elegance of the tree and the fact she had never seen one before.After purchasing the tree she was dismayed to see that only three houses down the street,right in front of the bus stop she used everyday,was a beautiful magnolia.The fact she had been exposed to this tree and not remembered it is an example of ________ processing.

The principle that memory is enhanced by associations between concepts and improves our understanding of how diverse elements are related explains that material is organized _____________.

As is the case with the hippocampus,damage to this region of the brain can permanently limit a person's ability to form new declarative memories.This region is the ________________.

Another name for short-term memory is:

Successful retrieval of memories that have an emotional component may be associated with________ activity.

Which of the following would be most likely to produce a flashbulb memory?

Dr.Albert conducts a study in which she first trains rats to run a maze.She then intentionally damages a particular portion of the rats' thalamus and observes the impact that this has on the rats' learning and performance in the maze.Dr.Albert's research is best characterized as an example of a:

It is argued that the recency effect occurs because immediately after an entire list has been read,the last few words are still in _________ memory.

The phonological loop,the visuo-spatial sketchpad,and the central executive are components of:

Research on the impact of misinformation effects with children has revealed that: