Exam 10: Memory

Memory is like:

Wilma has been a long-time fan of the country singer Tim McGraw. Later, she meets an interesting guy named Tom McGraw, but she keeps calling him Tim. Why?

Margeaux is introduced to the following people when she arrives at the party: Derek, Kayla, Calvin, Debbie, Rose, Melanie, Garrett, Tom, Francis, Jane, John, and Vincent. According to the serial-position effect, it will be most difficult to remember the names of:

A long-lasting increase in the strength of synaptic responsiveness is called long-term potentiation.

During short-term memory tasks, the ________ is especially active.

Retrieving a memory is most like:

________ is thought to be a biological mechanism of long-term memory.

In thinking about real-life problems, a person must be able to use dialectical reasoning, as explained in Chapter 9 (Thinking and Intelligence). Use dialectical reasoning to consider the controversial topic of eyewitness testimony presented in our chapter on memory. Should the testimony of preschoolers be trusted in situations involving child abuse?

Researchers have been able to induce memories of events that never happened.

One objection to traditional information-processing theories of memory is that, unlike most computers, the brain performs many independent operations __________.

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.

Knowing that flash floods occur quickly when water runs off hard, dry ground would be an episodic memory.

Which component of memory has been referred to as a "leaky bucket"?

The serial-position effect is the tendency for recall of the items in the middle of the list to surpass recall of the first and last items on a list.

________ refers to the capacity to retain and retrieve information.

Lucio is two years old and doesn't seem to recall meeting his aunt a few months earlier. This is likely because he:

When a witness expresses complete certainty about his or her report, the memory is almost always reliable.

What are the components of the information-processing model, in order of occurrence?

________ occurs when, instead of encoding just the physical or sensory features of the information, the meaning of information is analyzed.

This true-false question requires recognition.