Exam 8: Memory

Priming occurs when activation of one node:

One Friday evening you meet that "special someone" for whom you have been searching your whole life.The person gives you a phone number,but you have no pen to write it down.In your excited state you are unable to rehearse the phone number in your head.How long can you expect your short-term memory to remember the number?

Consider the following list of words: farmer,cow,chicken,barn,computer,hay,crop,rooster,pasture,and horse.When attempting to recall this list,people most likely would have little difficulty remembering the word "computer." The increased recall of this word is most likely a result of which of the following?

Which of the following is more effective for transferring information from short-term memory to long-term memory?

Imagine that you have studied for an exam in a noisy environment and your state of 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 was high (because of test anxiety),the concept of state-dependent memory would predict that your recall would be __________ and the concept of context-dependent memory would predict that your recall would ___________.

A study of flashbulb memories for the space shuttle Challenger disaster by Ulric Neisser and Nicole Harsch (1993)revealed that three years after the event:

Results from Hermann Ebbinghaus's studies of the forgetting process revealed that memory:

Your ability to remember information better when you study in a classroom (versus in the library)would be an example of state dependent memory.

According to the depth of processing model,semantic encoding involves the deepest processing because it requires us to attend to the __________ the information being encoded.

Consider the following two lists of words: List 1)man,mad,cap,can,map.List 2)big,huge,broad,long,tall.When presented with these two lists,research indicates that people usually have more difficulty in accurately remembering List 1,which suggests that the ____________ encoding plays an important role in short-term memory.

Contradicting conventional wisdom,research has revealed that flashbulb memories are not as accurate as people usually think they are.

Your friend gets in a motorcycle accident that damages his frontal lobe.This damage would most likely affect which of the following aspects of memory?

According to the ____________ theory we forget information because other items in long-term memory impair our ability to retrieve it.

A patient had surgery for a brain tumour,and now cannot form new memories for anything since the surgery.This would be an example of ________________ amnesia.

The intentional processing of information that requires conscious attention is called __________ processing.

The notion of parallel processing is most strongly associated with which of the following?

The serial position effect predicts ________________ between the serial position of a word in a list and the likelihood that the word will be recalled.

You are a witness to a robbery.Based on research about iconic and echoic store,the time required to recall the face of the robber would be _____________ than the time to recall the voice of the robber.

The recency effect is thought to occur because the words at the end of the list:

Based on memory research,therapists should: