Exam 7: Memory

Charles is an 82-year-old man who has just been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. It is likely that his memory for __________ will be the first to degenerate, and memories of his __________ will be the last things he forgets as the disease progresses.

Which type of memory has been demonstrated in 32-week fetuses?

When doing false memory research, researchers have to be careful that their participants don't have real memories of the events that are part of the study. To be certain that an event never occurred, researchers asked participants if they recall getting to meet Bugs Bunny (a Warner Brothers character) at Disneyland. When approximately 41 percent of the students reported this memory, the researchers knew it was indeed evidence of a false memory because

Which type of long-term memory holds your memories about birthday parties and trips you've taken?

__________ refers to our tendency to remember stimuli that are distinctive or that stand out from other stimuli.

Eidetic imagery is most prevalent among which of the following groups?

Which model of memory proposes that the deeper a person processes information, the better it will be remembered?

In high school, Deanna took three years of Spanish. In university, she signed up for a French course. When required to speak in French during class discussion with her teacher and classmates, Deanna frequently responds with Spanish words instead of French words. This is one example of

Bill is standing in his kitchen and remembers that he needs to add bread to his grocery list, but by the time he gets to the car, he cannot remember what he needed to do. He walks back into his kitchen, hoping this will jog his memory. Bill is making use of which of the following processes?

Which of the following is an example of procedural memory?

Researchers asked students about their initial recollections a few days after the space shuttle Challenger explosion and then two and a half to three years later. The results showed that

The first step in the memory process is __________ information in a form that the memory system can use.

Describe the serial position curve and provide examples of the primacy and recency effects.

After presenting groups of research participants with words like thread, eye, pin, syringe, sewing, sharp, and thimble, a memory researcher asks the participants whether they remember seeing the word needle. The fact that many participants do is an example of

Priming and habituation are types of __________ memory.

You make a list of groceries you need to get but realize you have forgotten the list when you get to the store. These are the items on your list: sugar, salt, flour, vanilla, bread, silver balloons, and milk. According to the von Restorff effect, if you are trying to remember this list of grocery items, what item are you most likely to remember?

What biological change in development offers an explanation for the existence of infantile amnesia?

What is the duration of iconic memory?

Sperling's research using displays of letters shown to participants demonstrated that sensory memory is __________ in duration and __________ in capacity (or span).

__________ occurs when we mistakenly forget that one of "our" ideas originated with someone else.