Exam 10: Memory

Your long-term memory holds a vast amount of information,including items of information about animals.Describe one of your semantic memories about animals and one of your episodic memories about them.Make sure you label which is which!

Jannell solved a crossword puzzle on Thursday,and by Saturday she doesn't recall the words in the puzzle.But Saturday night,when she is playing Scrabble with her brother,she unconsciously tends to form words that were in the puzzle.Jannell has ________ memory for some of the words.

________ is thought to be the biological mechanism of long-term memory.

Which of the following is NOT a way in which information is organized in long-term memory?

Confusion of an event that happened to someone else with one that happened to you or a belief that you remember something when it never actually happened is ________.

Match the examples with the appropriate type of memory. -You remember how to make your grandmother's special meatloaf.

When rabbits are conditioned to blink their eyes in response to a tone,changes in electrical activity occur in parts of the ________.

Match the examples with the appropriate type of memory. -You look up a phone number and are able to remember it long enough to dial the phone.

Which is NOT one of the explanations proposed by cognitive psychologists to explain childhood amnesia?

In Chapter 4 (The Brain: Source of Mind and Self),we learned that the cerebellum,which was once considered just a motor centre,also plays a part in higher cognitive tasks.Using the information from the rabbit eye blink study in Chapter 10 (Memory?),explain how the cerebellum plays a role in memory.What kind of memory seems to involve the cerebellum? Analyze the conditioning procedure (Chapter 7: Learning and Conditioning)that Richard Thompson used in order to test his hypothesis.

In an experiment at a daycare centre,a young man read a story to preschoolers and gave them a treat.A week later,an experimenter asked the children in Group 1 leading questions about aggressive acts that never occurred (Did he throw a crayon at a child?).She asked the children in Group 2 leading questions but also used influence techniques.The results showed that:

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

________ memory refers to recollection of a personally experienced event and the context in which it occurred.

Match the definitions with the correct terms. -The selective,involuntary pushing of threatening or upsetting information into the unconscious.

Memories of personally experienced events and the contexts in which they occurred are called:

What is meant by a "flashbulb memory?" Why do some theorists speculate that the capacity for flashbulb memories is an adaptive characteristic of human evolution? How accurate are flashbulb memories?

Which of the following ways of measuring explicit memory usually produces the best results?

This true-false question requires recall.

Which of the following is NOT a procedural memory?

Children cannot be induced to report real-life traumatic experiences that never actually happened to them.