Exam 6: Memory

Courtney is called to the witness stand to testify as an eyewitness against a man accused of first-degree murder.The attorney questioning her asks a series of questions about the alleged murderer.The attorney includes a question asking Courtney to describe the tattoo on the left shoulder of the accused man.This question is false-the defendant has no tattoo.The lawyer is using the question to try to discredit Courtney,who says that the tattoo was small and hard to see in detail.The MOST likely reason for Courtney's mistake is:

Forgetting that occurs with the passage of time is known as:

Tony has spoken Italian since he was 5 years old.In his high school Spanish class,he regularly replaces Spanish words with Italian words.Tony is experiencing:

While driving in a new city,you briefly see a road sign that you think marks the exit you are looking for,but after a few seconds,you cannot remember what the sign said.This illustrates the quick decay of _____ memory.

A participant studied the following word pairs: reptile-snake,reptile-turtle,reptile-lizard,amphibian-frog,amphibian-salamander,and amphibian-newt.Then the participant practiced recalling only the amphibian-salamander pair using the prompt "reptile-liz_____." Sometime later,the participant was given a memory test of the words he had originally studied.Of these,which word would be MOST likely forgotten?

Someone who is shown a picture of Babe Ruth and then asked to complete the word ball will be more likely to respond "baseball" than "football" or "basketball," illustrating the effects of:

People in long-term romantic relationships tend to exaggerate how much their love grows over time,illustrating change bias.

Faced with a tough decision regarding whether or not to change careers,Vitomir relies on his _____ memory to imagine the different outcomes associated with remaining in or leaving his current position.

Repeating a telephone number over and over until you can write it down or dial it is an example of rehearsal.

Once consolidated,memories are relatively permanent fixtures in the brain.

Which scenario BEST illustrates déjà vécu?

Claudia recalls that Pierre Trudeau was once prime minister of Canada,but she was not alive during Pierre Trudeau's administration and has no clue if she learned the information in school,in a book,or on the news.Claudia is experiencing a failure of _____ memory.

Absentmindedness is most often due to divided attention.

Memory sins are BEST conceptualized as:

Boy bands were extremely popular about a decade ago but are somewhat ridiculed today.If young adults were asked now to rate how much they had liked boy bands as teens,they probably would underestimate their teen preferences;this phenomenon illustrates change bias.

Collaborative recall typically is better than the recall of any individual comprising the group.

The seven sins of memory:

Prospective memory involves remembering:

Eric has suffered damage to his hippocampus.His family notices that he is now unable to recall normal events that occur in daily life and that he seems lost and disoriented most of the time.Nonetheless,Eric has no problem recalling factual information,such as the last three prime ministers and the inventor of the telephone.Eric's _____ memory has apparently been affected by the hippocampal damage.

A failure to retrieve information that is in memory,even though you are trying to produce it,is known as: