Exam 7: Memory

Mr.Dannemiller has recently been diagnosed with Korsakoff's syndrome.His doctor decides to give him a neuropsychological evaluation to assess his memory.He is given two tasks,one is to remember a list of twenty words and one is to remember a rather lengthy and detailed story about a little girl going to camp for the first time.When he is tested for his memory for both tasks,his doctor notices some prominent deficits.Describe three specific types of memory deficits that the doctor is likely to note,given Mr.Dannemiller's condition.

State-dependent memory is the tendency to remember something better if your body is in the same condition during recall as it was during the original learning.

When modern-day college students memorize one of the lists that Ebbinghaus memorized,what is generally true about the rate of forgetting?

After damage to his hippocampus,patient H.M.lost most of his ability to

Hindsight bias is the tendency to

The capacity of short-term memory for most normal adults is about seven items.

When Ebbinghaus pioneered the experimental study of memory,the information he memorized was

Prolonged deficiency of vitamin B-1 leads to a condition that is characterized by severe memory problems.The name of that condition is

Psychologists interested in studying repressed memories examined 16 children who were known to have witnessed the murder of one of their parents.What were the results of this study?

After students graduate from college,what happens to their memory of a foreign language that they studied in college?

Lee has recently had a brain injury in which there was substantial damage to the hippocampus.During recovery,Lee finds that he is able to remember directions to the grocery store and the steps needed to shop (e.g.get a shopping basket,shop,pay for groceries and carry them out).However,Lee has extreme difficulty remembering the list of groceries that he established that he needed while he was at home.Furthermore,when he gets home,he finds that he is able to do simple tasks such as putting ice in his drink,but he becomes frustrated when he tries to remember all of the steps needed to use his espresso machine to make a drink.Given what we know about the hippocampus,explain why Lee exhibits the difficulties mentioned in the story.

If asked to tell your social security number (without looking it up),you are being asked to perform a __________ memory test.

The levels-of-processing principle distinguishes between

One conclusion that emerges from all the research on brain damage and amnesia is that we clearly have different types of memory.

One of the main symptoms of Korsakoff's syndrome is

Although the patient H.M.suffered severe amnesia,he remained fairly normal in his ability to learn

In the traditional information-processing model,one difference between short-term memory and long-term memory is that

Hermann Ebbinghaus forgot a new list that he learned faster than did most college students who participated in later experiments.Why did Ebbinghaus forget so rapidly?

Your friend asks,"What's the name of our chemistry lab instructor? I think it's Kathy or Karen something." If you answer correctly that it is Kathy Katzenjammer,which kind of memory are you displaying?

If asked to tell your social security number (without looking it up),you are being asked to perform a ____________________ memory test. free recall