Exam 10: Memory

Procedural memory is defined as the conscious,intentional recollection of an event.

Match the examples with the appropriate type of memory. -You remember most of the gifts you received for your sixteenth birthday.

Kara is looking for a wedding dress and visits 10 different stores in one day.She finds at the end of the day she recalls perfectly the dress she liked in the first store she visited but does not remember in what stores she saw the other dresses she also liked.Kara's memory difficulties reflect:

In contrast to temporary changes associated with sensory memory,short-term memory involves lasting structural changes in the brain.

The three-box model of memory remains a leading approach for all of the reasons below EXCEPT:

Which of the following has NOT been shown to affect the accuracy of eyewitness testimony?

Which of the following statements regarding the measurement of memory is CORRECT?

Match the definitions with the correct terms. -Forgetting that occurs when previously stored material interferes with the ability to remember similar,more recently learned material.

A student has taken a summer job answering telephone sales orders.He quickly learns that it is much easier to remember a customer's 6-digit postal code and 7-digit phone number,but much more difficult to keep track of their 16-digit credit card numbers.According to the research of George Miller,he is having trouble with longer strings of numbers because:

Which of the following types of information will NOT enter long-term memory easily?

Owen is convinced that one of the questions on his psychology exam will be to name the eight reindeer that pulled Santa's sleigh.What kind of test question would the professor use to measure recognition? What about recall? Which type of test would be easier for Owen? Speculate on the reason it would be easier.

________ is an internal representation of the world independent of any particular context.

Knowing that flash floods occur quickly when water runs off hard,dry ground would be an episodic memory.

Human patients who have damage in the hippocampus cannot be classically conditioned to blink their eyes in response to a tone.

Memory researchers have suggested that flashbulb memories may have evolutionary significance because they are adaptive in human survival.

________ provide(s)the mental equivalent of a scratch pad.

Ambassador McKenzie was about to ask a French diplomat to repeat his last comment,but then the ambassador was able to "select" what had been said and ignore all the extraneous sounds in the reception room.The ambassador's auditory subsystem of ________ enabled him to do this.

Decay theory has a difficult time explaining three of the statements below.Which statement CAN be explained from the perspective of decay theory?

The ________ is involved in the formation of procedural memories.

Memories that involve knowing how to do something,like how to comb your hair,are called declarative memories.