Exam 6: Memory

While gardening,Greg tripped over a coil of wound-up hose and fell face first on the pavement.He suffered damage to the hippocampal region in his brain.While recovering in the hospital,he consistently greeted his friends and family as though he was seeing them again after a long time,even though he had visited with them the previous night.He often forgot what he did during the day.However,he could still recall adventures from his teenage years without effort.Greg MOST likely has:

Eric Kandel won a Nobel Prize in 2000 for his research investigating:

A fast-decaying store of auditory information is referred to as _____ memory.

Yo-Yo Ma,a world-famous musician,left his multimillion-dollar cello in the trunk of a taxi.What might have caused him to forget something so important to him?

In a classic memory study by Peterson and Peterson (1959),participants were given consonant strings to remember-such as DBX and HLM-and then instructed to count backwards from 100 by 3.After a variable amount of time (delay),the participants were asked to recall the consonant strings.Which statement accurately describes the results of the experiment?

Conceptual priming is an explicit memory,and perceptual priming is an implicit memory.

_____ memory refers to how people remember in groups.

Short-term memory can hold approximately _____ meaningful items.

Callie visited a dance club where the songs were "oldies but goodies." Although she had not gone dancing in more than 20 years,Callie remembered the lyrics to most of the songs.This was MOST likely because:

Jerry is asked to think of a word that rhymes with "motor." Jimmy is asked to think about how a motor works.The next day,both men are asked,"Hey,what was the word that you heard yesterday that rhymes with 'voter'?" _____ will be more likely to recall "motor" because _____.

The type of consolidation that occurs over a time scale encompassing years involves the transfer of memory from:

Relative to semantic encoding,organizational encoding shows more activation of the upper left _____ lobe.

Rita has meetings all week.She finds that,by Friday,she cannot clearly remember the meetings that she attended earlier in the week because she confuses them with the meetings she had on the last two days of the week.This illustrates:

Kandel's work with Aplysia demonstrated that short-term memory involves the growth of new synaptic connections among neurons.

The scent of a former partner's cologne may serve as a strong retrieval cue,bringing instant thoughts of him or her.

The hippocampus appears to be critically involved in the formation of new _____ memories.

After her surgery,Sona cannot remember anything that occurred in the hour leading up to the surgery in which she was anaesthetized and rendered unconscious.This mild form of _____ amnesia is MOST likely due to the head injury preventing memory _____.

Echoic memories last _____ iconic memories.

In a typical collaborative memory experiment,participants first encode a list of words _____ and then later on attempt to recall those words _____.

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)Based on the information provided,this scenario BEST illustrates which psychological research method?