Exam 8: Memory

Imagine that you have studied for an exam in a quiet environment and your physiological arousal has been low while you were studying.If on the day of the exam you were given the test in a quiet environment and your physiological arousal remained low,the concept of state-dependent memory would predict that your recall would be good and the concept of context-dependent memory would predict that your recall would __________.

Based on case studies and clinical experience,most therapists believe that repression is a valid concept,while many researchers in academic environments argue that the forgetting of traumatic events may be due to ______________________.

Goodman et al.investigated the impact of misleading questions on children's memories for a traumatic event (i.e. ,a painful hospital procedure)and found that overall,younger children had memories that were less accurate than older children and that misleading questions had _______ effect on children's memories for this particular event.

Which of the following statements regarding motivated forgetting is most accurate?

Research has found that the primacy effect disappears if:

According to the neural network theory of memory,each concept is represented:

Men and women are equally accurate in their eyewitness identifications of possible perpetrators,but women are more confident in the identifications they have made.

The phenomenon of _____________ memory is demonstrated by the fact that it is usually easier to retrieve information in an environment that is similar to the one in which it was encoded.

The phenomenon of _____________ refers to people's tendency to remember a scene as being more expansive than it actually is.

According to Craik and colleagues at the University of Toronto,semantic encoding is a deeper level of processing than phonemic encoding,which itself is a deeper level of processing than is _______________ encoding.

"Priming" refers to the activation of one concept by another and is associated with the concept of "spreading activation".

The concept of state-dependent memory can best be understood by taking the more general encoding specificity principle and applying it to ____________.

Kandel's research on in the sea slug,aplysia,allowed him and his colleagues to study:

The inability of most people to remember personal experiences from the first few years of their lives is technically called:

Because it requires people to attend to the meaning of the information being presented,elaborative rehearsal is more effective in terms of facilitating the process where information is effectively stored in long-term memory than _____________________.

Stephanie just broke up with her boyfriend,Paul.Then Scott asks her to the homecoming dance.At the dance that night,Stephanie and Scott have a wonderful time.When Scott walks Stephanie to the door he is dismayed when she kisses him goodnight and calls him Paul.Stephanie has just illustrated:

If you think for a moment about the concept "school," it is likely that other concepts such as "textbooks," "teachers," and "exams" may also come to mind.The fact that these other words can be triggered by the word "school" is best considered to be an example of:

Both remembering and forgetting are adaptive processes for human beings.

Regarding eyewitness identifications of possible perpetrators:

A person who has received damage to his amygdala will most likely: