Exam 6: Memory

Collaborative inhibition is due to the social loafing phenomenon.

Casey just heard that Fargo is the most populous city in North Dakota.Using the concept of semantic encoding,we can say that she will remember this information better if she:

Memory is enhanced for highly emotional events in large part due to the activity of which brain structure?

University students are shown a series of pictures and asked to recall them 3 months later.Which picture would the students LEAST likely remember?

When asked to remember their grades in high school,college students' memories for bad grades tend to be more accurate than memories of good grades.

Damage to the amygdala is associated with:

Kelly is at a local bar having a drink.A young man starts flirting with her and approaches her.Kelly decides to tell him her number.He repeats the series of digits in his head over and over again until he has a chance to write it down.This process is known as:

Three weeks ago,Sandra came home to discover an armed robber in the house.When she walked in the door,the man pushed past her and fled the premises.Sandra's sister Amy was unloading groceries from the car,but saw the man and said she thought he had wavy black hair.When Sandra goes to the police station to view a lineup,the man who robbed her is in it.However,Sandra picks a similar-looking man who has wavy black hair instead of the actual thief,who has light brown hair.Her mistake illustrates the concept of:

Jessica is trying to quickly memorize the definitions of 26 terms in her chemistry booklet 2 minutes before the exam.She seems to think that she can store all of these definitions in her short-term memory.If she understands the limits of memory,she will realize that her short-term memory will only be able to retain _____ of the definitions at once.

Kandel and colleagues repeatedly stimulated the tail of an Aplysia with a mild electric shock.They then successfully produced a long-term memory in the Aplysia by demonstrating that the gill:

Which statement BEST describes how bias affects memories?

The impairment of memory for recently learned information by previously learned information is known as:

Because they have a(n)_____ component,_____ memories usually are well recalled.

Long-term memory can be broken up into two broad types: memory that requires conscious recall,referred to as _____ memory,and memory that does not require conscious recall,or _____ memory.

The ability to recall information more efficiently when you are in the same state as when the information was encoded is known as:

A business executive was so occupied with a potential merger that she completely forgot about a meeting she had scheduled for that afternoon with a new client.This illustrates _____ due to a failure in _____ memory.

Taken together,the seven sins of memory expose human memory as a highly inefficient system.

Devon and Liz are studying for their test on Canadian history.Devon asks Liz,"Hey,do you remember who the fourth prime minister of Canada was?" Liz pauses for a few seconds and then answers,"John Abbott." As soon as she answers,her cell phone rings.It is her friend Carla,and Liz talks to her for about 10 minutes.When she gets off the phone,Devon says,"Liz,I didn't hear you.Who was the fourth prime minister?" Liz thinks for a few moments and then realizes that she has forgotten the answer.This scenario illustrates the importance of memory:

We rely heavily on _____ memory to envision the future.

The effectiveness of retrieval cues demonstrates that information is often _____ but momentarily _____ in memory.