Exam 6: Memory

When recalling the morning of September 11,2001,Rob is able to describe what he was doing and saying at the moment the principal of his middle school opened the classroom door to advise the class to turn on the television.Rob's ability to describe the day's events in detail is an example of:

Which statement accurately describes the results of a typical collaborative memory experiment?

Jessica Li held up three rows of four letters on a poster board to her high school class for a fraction of a second.She then removed it and immediately asked the class to name the 12 letters they had just been shown.Based on previous research,about how many letters would you expect individual students to recall?

Most people would be incredibly accurate at matching names to faces from their high school yearbook,even decades after they graduated.

In a typical collaborative memory experiment,the group of participants asked to recall information with others is termed the nominal group.

Professor Slate develops a drug that can erase specific memories of traumatic experiences.When should this drug be administered?

Waitresses who use organizational encoding to organize orders into groups are essentially:

Source memory refers to:

Proactive interference refers to situations in which earlier learning impairs memory for information acquired later.

Using social pressure,Shaw and Porter (2015)got a large percentage of the university students in their study to falsely remember _____ as adolescents.

You are taking a biology class.During the lecture,you listen,take notes,and think about how the information is related to you.These are examples of _____ information into memory.When you rehearse this information,you are facilitating _____.During a test,you must remember the information,which is called _____.

Which statement accurately summarizes the effects of sleep on long-term storage?

When you successfully remember something,your _____ shows increased activity,whereas when you try but fail to remember something,your _____ shows increased activity.

Gavin is asked to remember a list of 20 words.Some of the words are written in blue ink,and some are written in red ink.A week later,he is asked to recall as many words as possible.Gavin will probably do better on the task if,during the encoding phase,he:

Use the following to answer questions : Scenario II Famous within psychology,patient HM had parts of his temporal lobes-including his hippocampus-removed to stop incurable and life-threatening epileptic seizures.The surgery was successful;however,patient HM was left with a severe case of anterograde amnesia.Subsequent tests found that his short-term and implicit memory systems were not affected by the surgery. -(Scenario II)As a result of the surgery,HM could NOT:

Angelika studies a set of pictures.The next day,she is asked to provide details about the pictures.Which brain structures are MOST responsible for her accurate recall?

Research has shown that different aspects of a single memory are stored in:

Remembering how to ride your bike is an example of _____ memory.

The case of HM is a documented case of a patient whose speech skills and intelligence were unaffected by the removal of his hippocampus and parts of his temporal lobe but who could not form new long-term memories.Which memory disorder was MOST pronounced in HM?

Sarah says she can vividly remember the day her baby brother was born.This is an example of _____ memory.