Exam 10: Memory

Steffi remembers going to the zoo with her parents and her best friend on her 10^th birthday. She can even recall the look on her friend's face when she dropped her ice cream cone into the grizzly bear enclosure. Steffi's recollection is an example of:

In the mid-1980s, the nation's media focused on the McMartin preschool in Los Angeles, where children claimed to have been hung in trees, raped, and forced to eat feces. Although none of the children had shown symptoms or problems during their preschool experience, most of the accused teachers were sentenced to years in prison. What has research revealed about the accuracy of children's testimony in cases such as this? Under what conditions are children apt to be suggestible?

The hippocampus is involved in the formation of declarative long-term memories.

________ plays a critical role in the formation of long-term declarative memories.

What mechanisms other than repression could account for a person's psychogenic amnesia?

For most people, the abbreviation USA consists of _________ informational chunk(s).

Camille is furious with her history professor. "I read the chapter three times, but I still failed the exam," she fumes. "The test must have been unfair." What's wrong with Camille's reasoning, and what are some other possible explanations for her poor performance, based on principles of critical thinking and what you have learned so far about memory?

The cerebellum has been associated with __________ memories; the hippocampus has been associated with __________ memories.

Chad remembers the feeling of excitement in his house when his mother stepped through the door with his new baby sister. He can still picture the tiny little baby with a stocking cap on her head! His parents can't convince him that he actually stayed with his grandparents for two weeks after his sister was born and that his memory never happened! Chad's memory is an example of:

Critics of repression as a mechanism of forgetting argue that:

Contemporary memory researchers would be most likely to agree that childhood amnesia:

In his work with rabbits, Richard Thompson showed that classical conditioning of the eyeblink response depends on activity in the ________.

Priming is a method for measuring explicit memory.

We encode our memories as exact replicas of our sensory experiences.

Eyewitness testimonies by victims are most likely to contain errors when the suspect:

Organizing memories by semantic groups is a human characteristic that is uninfluenced by schooling.

As she studies her physics textbook, Marilyn wants to make sure that she remembers that sound intensity is measured in units called decibels and that each decibel is one-tenth of a bel, which is a unit named after Alexander Graham Bell. Marilyn creates a visual image of ten little elf-like Bell figures trying to turn up the volume of a huge stereo. Her strategy is called:

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:

The formation of short-term memories and long-term memories involve the same chemical and structural changes at the level of the neurons.

Research suggests that the best way to encourage truthful testimony by children is to: