Exam 8: Memory

Sir Frederick Bartlett's research on people's memories of a Native American story called "The War of the Ghosts" demonstrated how schemas can cause people to alter key aspects of the story so that it would make sense to them.

Intentional processing that requires conscious attention is best defined as:

Incoming visual or auditory information that is stored just long enough to be recognized is stored in:

Chunking refers to the process whereby:

Sir Frederick Bartlett's experiment showing how people misremembered various elements of a unique Pacific Northwest Indian story was discussed to demonstrate the concept of:

In the case of the amnesia patient H.M.presented in the text,it was found that:

Dr.Albert conducts a study in which she first trains rats to run a maze.She then intentionally damages a particular portion of the rats' thalamus and observes the impact that this has on the rats' and performance in the maze.Dr.Albert's research is best characterized as an example of a:

With regard to the serial position effect,the ___________ effect refers to the superiority of recall for words presented at the beginning of the list.

Hermann Ebbinghaus pioneered the study of forgetting by using _____________.

A new restaurant was opening and Alice and Anne were hired to proofread the menu before it went to press.Alice reviewed each page,looking for mistakes in capitalization while Anne read the menu for comprehension.Both spent exactly one hour on the process before declaring the menu ready for print.Later that evening,their mother asked them what kinds of items were on the menu and Anne was able to remember more than her sister because she engaged in ________ processing.

It is generally thought that the process of memory consolidation occurs in the:

Try as she might,Zoey cannot remember anything from the first three years of her childhood.Which of the following is NOT considered a possible explanation for infantile amnesia?

Jim has a hard time remembering to do things that he plans to do in the future,such as mailing letters or remembering to call someone.These memories are examples of what are called prospective memories and the part of the brain that is thought to play an important role in their retrieval is the __________.

You pass someone on the street and he looks familiar to you.You don't remember the person's name,but you can recall that you met him at a New Year's Eve party last year at a friend's house and you can even recall what he was wearing.These types of memories are best described as examples of:

Leslie was getting ready to landscape the yard of her new house.After researching and then shopping for specific trees,she decided on a beautiful magnolia for the showpiece of her garden.One of the things Leslie liked the most was the unusual elegance of the tree and the fact she had never seen one before.After purchasing the tree she was dismayed to see that only three houses down the street,right in front of the bus stop she used every day,was a beautiful magnolia.The fact she had been exposed to this tree and not remembered it is an example of ________ processing.

If we desired to eliminate the recency effect,we could:

Retroactive interference is said to occur when newly acquired material in memory interferes with the recall of ____________ material.

This component of working memory allows us to temporarily store and manipulate images.This component is the _____________.

Peter is studying for an exam and wants to maximize his .He knows that the best way to retrieve information is to encode it with multiple cues for retrieval.Therefore Peter finds out the room the exam will be given in and he goes to that room each night to study for the exam.Peter is relying on maximizing the advantage that he might receive from:

Which of the following statements regarding Alzheimer's disease is true?