Exam 10: Memory

Famous psychologist Jean Piaget once reported having a personal memory of almost being kidnapped when he was a 2 year old. It wasn't until Piaget was 15 years old that the nurse confessed that she had made up the entire incident. What does Piaget's experience reveal about autobiographical memories and reconstruction of the past?

Most people seem to favour ________ for encoding and rehearsing the contents of short-term memory.

Brad and Jane have perfect memories; they can recall exact events from their entire lives using just a date as a cue. Both Brad and Jane complain that their excellent memory is exhausting and interferes with their ability to function. What do Brad and Jane's reports about what it's like to have a perfect memory tell us about typical memory?

Confusion of an event that happened to someone else with one that happened to you, or a belief that you remember something when it never actually happened, is called ________.

________ holds and operates on information that has been retrieved from long-term memory for temporary use.

Moderate amounts of hormones released by the adrenal glands during stress and emotional arousal tend to:

When psychological scientists examined 40 cases where wrongful conviction had been established beyond doubt, they found that ________ of these cases had involved a false identification by one or more eyewitnesses.

When a word is on the "tip-of-the-tongue," what errors are likely until the target word is recalled?

In order to help her music students learn the lines of the treble clef in musical notation, Susan has them learn the sentence "Every Good Boy Does Fine," in which the starting letter of each word represents the name of a note. This is an example of:

A practiced juggler relies on __________ memory to keep the balls in the air.

________ is a memory system that includes short-term memory and executive processes that control attention and retrieval.

In the 1930s, the research of the British psychologist Sir Frederic Bartlett provided evidence to support the view that memory is:

Which of the following is considered to be an implicit memory?

Conscious, intentional recollection of an event or of an item of information is called:

The ________ theory of forgetting proposes that memory fades with time and lack of use.

The case study of Henry Molaison (H.M.) is discussed throughout Chapter 10 in your textbook. Careful study of H.M.'s memory after his surgery revealed that:

Retrieving a memory is most like:

Early in the 1990s, controversy arose regarding the accuracy of long-buried memories of sexual abuse. Freud would have explained this as an example of a repressed memory that later is brought to conscious awareness. What does the evidence say about repression?

________ acts as a holding bin, retaining information in a highly accurate form until we can select items for attention.

The inability to distinguish an actual memory of an event from information you learned about the event elsewhere is called ________.