Exam 6: Memory

During Monica's appearance on a popular quiz show,the host asked her to name the capital of Russia,and Monica immediately blanked.She was sure that she knew the answer,but she just couldn't recall it that moment.This illustrates:

Hafa just completed a course in calculus.Based on knowledge about the curve of forgetting,we can predict that:

Failures in prospective memory often result in:

Kandel and colleagues stimulated the tail of an Aplysia with a mild electric shock,which caused contraction of its gill.If the investigators were to immediately stimulate the tail of the Aplysia again,the gill would contract more _____,indicating _____ memory of the shock.

Which type of judgement has research shown results in better memory for words?

Many of the same brain regions are activated during false recognition as during true recognition.

Kristen vividly remembers her first day of high school.As this day is of special significance to her,she often revisits it in her mind.This scenario illustrates a(n)_____ memory.

The _____ integrates visual and verbal information from working memory subsystems into a multidimensional code.

Forty-year-old Eli was prompted to recall information about the first university football game he attended as a first-year student some 22 years earlier.Specifically,he was asked information about whether his team won,the weather,who accompanied him to the game,and the size of the crowd at the game.Sometime later,Eli and his twin brother William,who also was at the game but did not experience the initial interview,were asked to recall as many details about the game as possible.What would Eli be MORE likely than William to forget?

As Tim does his homework while on the phone with his friend Sue,his pencil breaks.He goes to get a new pencil from the basement where his family keeps all their school supplies.He goes to the basement and returns to his room without retrieving the pencil.He realizes it after a few minutes.Which factor MOST likely caused this?

State-dependent retrieval and the knowledge that alcohol has detrimental effects on test-taking would predict which study and then test context would produce the LOWEST score?

Sperling flashed a matrix of 12 letters for 1/20th of a second to participants.When asked to recall the letters immediately after,Sperling found that MOST participants recalled:

Neurotransmission,or communication among neurons,is analogous to you sending a toy boat across a river to your friend on the other side.

The _____ memory store holds information for a maximum of 15 to 20 seconds in the absence of rehearsal.

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)Which memory processes were severely impaired by the surgery?

The process of bringing to mind information that has been previously encoded and stored in memory is known as:

_____ is the tendency to incorporate misleading information from outside sources into personal recollections.

The memory of a person with amnesia can be primed.

Which researcher studied memory by using nonsense syllables?

Long-term memory has no known capacity limits.