Exam 6: Memory

The character of Dori from the movie Finding Nemo keeps complaining that she has short-term memory loss because she can't remember the name of the friend she just met.What is a more likely explanation for her memory failure?

After you finish reading this sentence,the information will remain in your ________ as you consider each of the answers below.

"You should have seen it! First the car flipped over and then it exploded! I will never forget it!" What type of memory may have just formed in this eyewitness?

Which of the following is likely to be stored in long-term memory?

Darryl decides to start reviewing for his exam by studying 20 minutes a day for 10 days,rather than just studying 3-4 hours the night before his exam.He is making use of

Researchers asked students about their initial recollections a few days after the Challenger explosion and then 2 ½ to 3 years later.The results showed that

Jeff is studying with a fellow classmate and is frustrated that he is missing several important concepts from his notes.Jeff claims that the professor "never said that in class," and yet his friend has the information recorded in his notes.What kind of failure of memory might Jeff have experienced?

Imagine that you are the chairperson of the psychology department at a university.Based on the information discussed on context-dependent learning,justify to your faculty why they should not reassign students to different seats on the day of an exam or should not give exams in different classrooms from where the material was learned.

What provides the best explanation for why Steve,who did not read the chapter the night before,is overwhelmed by Professor Griffith's lecture on the Civil War,while Mary,who did read the chapter,is not?

Emilio is seeing a sports psychologist to help improve his mental preparation and performance.The psychologist asks Emilio to see himself making his free throws.As Emilio visualizes his dribbling,shooting motion,and release,he sees himself as an outside observer would.Memory researchers argue that this tendency demonstrates

Which of the following comparisons between long-term and short-term memory is true?

Paul David just started his job as a mail carrier.He begins his route and gets to the first street.To his surprise,the houses on the first street have no visible house numbers.This situation most likely violates his mental __________ concerning neighborhoods.

A veteran football coach is presented with a picture of the game last Sunday.After looking at it for several seconds,he is asked to reposition each of the players on a model field.The coach is nearly perfect in his efforts.If the players had originally been positioned in a(n)__________ order,his performance would have been much worse.

Seth is using visualization to imagine himself throwing pitches for strikes when he plays baseball.The ability to recognize that he is constructing these images rather than recalling them from an actual game in which he played results from accurate

The memory "sin" of __________ is similar to the misinformation effect.

Explain the connection between context-dependent learning and retrieval cues.

Which of the following situations best illustrates relearning?

The system of memory that can hold approximately seven "chunks" of information for approximately 15 seconds is called

Loi is reading over the teams that have won the National Basketball Association (NBA)championship since 1980.His recall of the first nine and last nine champions at significantly higher rates than the ten champions in the middle would clearly demonstrate the __________.

Dr.James advises that if you study for your next psychology exam in the same room where you take the exam,your score will improve.He is basing this advice on