Exam 6: Memory

Damage to the hippocampus is LEAST likely to cause a 30-year-old male to forget:

After practicing how to tie her shoes for months with her mother,Sara can now easily tie her shoes by herself without purposely thinking about the steps.This capability is an example of:

Aaliyah had a very important midterm paper due in less than an hour,so she rushed to her class in her car with the paper on the passenger seat.After she parked the car,she raced into class,leaving behind the paper.Aaliyah experienced:

Tara,a professional ice skater,struggles to remember the names of the various people she meets as part of her job but has no problem remembering elaborate skating routines.This illustrates the difference between explicit and _____ memory.

Repeatedly retrieving a piece of information from memory produces roughly the same effects on long-term recall as studying the information repeatedly.

Because he suffered from anterograde amnesia,patient HM was unable to transfer new information from short-term into long-term memory.

Trying to recall an event and successfully recalling one are:

A child in grade three must learn the rules of multiplication (1 × 1 through 12 × 12)in 2 weeks.The BEST advice to give this student is to:

Combining small pieces of information into larger clusters is known as:

With respect to complex long-term memories,the hippocampus can MOST accurately be conceptualized as a(n):

Jason looked up a telephone number on his desktop computer but his cell phone is in another room.The easiest and perhaps MOST effective technique he can use to remember the number until he can get to his phone is:

A stray cat would be LEAST likely to remember where it last:

The tendency to incorporate misleading information from outside sources into personal recall of events is called:

The negative effect of group recall on memory is termed:

Memory misattributions are a primary cause of eyewitness misidentifications.

Annie,Cierra,and Deidre memorize facts about historical figures in psychology as part of an introductory psychology course.On the day of the exam,the professor informs the three students that they can either take the exam individually or submit one exam from the group.Based on research on collaborative memory,the students should:

A new acquaintance at a party tells you a telephone number in the hope of going out on a date.How long will it take for the number to be erased from your short-term memory?

Sensory storage holds information for a maximum of:

Amber learned French for 12 years in public school and for 2 more years in university.Nevertheless,only 1 year after she graduated from university,she realizes that she remembers very little French.This illustrates:

Roediger and Karpicke (2006)studied performance on a memory test in two groups of participants.In one group,participants studied the material twice (study-study).In the other group,participants studied the material once and then were tested on the material (study-test).A final test measuring recall was administered to both groups after various retention intervals.Which statement about performance on the final test is TRUE?