Exam 6: Memory

The law of distributed versus massed practice

Explain why English professors should be aware of the concept of cryptomnesia.

Explain why Courtney,who relies primarily on maintenance rehearsal,does more poorly at remembering the names of people she just met than Dave,who engages in elaborative rehearsal.

Given that the Spanish word "bonita" means pretty,describe and provide an example of how a student using the pegword method might approach learning the definition of this word.

Following a car accident,Jane and Joan both suffer head injuries with resulting amnesia.Joan cannot remember events that occurred before the accident,while Jane cannot remember events that occurred after the accident.Joan suffers from __________ amnesia and Jane from __________ amnesia.

What do the results of research on primacy and recency effects suggest about human memory?

An eyewitness to a crime says in court,while pointing to the defendant,"I was there; I saw that man pull the trigger!" How likely is it that the defendant will be found guilty?

Provide one example each of a person with retrograde amnesia and anterograde amnesia.

__________ is the memory system for the information that a student taking an exam is currently thinking about or attending to.

D.J.is trying to accurately remember what his wife,Lois,looked like and was wearing the first time he ever saw her.Research suggests this will involve actual details stored in his memory as well as his best guesses and hunches based on his current knowledge.This suggests that people __________ many of their recollections of the past.

Unlike explicit memory,implicit memory

Provide one example each of semantic,episodic,and procedural memory.

When a teacher tells you to start studying weeks before the exam rather than waiting until the last minute,he or she is really advising you to use

An essay exam question or a fill-in-the-blank question with no word bank is similar to the ________ method of assessing one's memory.

In the text,the authors discussed the astounding memory capabilities of Rajan.He could recall the digits for the number pi starting from nearly any place in the sequence.His amazing ability is due,in part,to his use of

Elaborative rehearsal involves

Billy has just returned home from visiting his grandparents.His grandfather always had a jar of jelly beans on the table,and his mother asked Billy about the jar."Sure," says Billy,"it was right there where it always was." Billy's mother knew that the jar was gone.The grandfather had recently been diagnosed with diabetes and had cut down on his sugar intake.Why did Billy remember seeing the jar of jelly beans?

Memory recovery from generalized amnesia is

Benny has just returned from a party and describes the beautiful redhead he saw to his roommate.The next morning,the roommate asks Benny if he is going to call the blonde woman he met last night.Benny subsequently pictures the woman with blonde hair.This illustrates the __________.

Dan's father is feeling very frustrated because he has spent the afternoon trying to teach Dan how to drive a car with a standard/manual transmission.Dan's father's frustration lies in the difficulty of verbalizing __________ memories.