Exam 7: Interconnections Between Acquisition and Retrieval

Participants are asked to memorize a list of words. In addition to the words themselves, participants will remember some aspects of the context in which the words appeared. This tendency to remember a stimulus within its context is referred to as

Which of the following methods is NOT considered evidence of an implicit memory?

Imagine that you are hired at a public relations firm to spread the message that Sour Patch Kids ® are a healthy alternative to vegetables. Using your knowledge of the principles of familiarity, how might you go about convincing people that this is true?

Mark suffered a blow to the head many weeks ago, causing retrograde amnesia. Which of the following incidences is Mark LEAST likely to remember?

In a lexical decision task, a researcher finds no effect of priming. Which of the following statements is a plausible explanation for this?

What would be the most accurate way to describe familiarity?

"Context reinstatement" refers to

The famous patient H.M. was unable to remember events he experienced after his brain surgery. The surgery apparently produced

Context has an effect on memory

Participants are asked to memorize a list of words. The eighth word on the list is "inches," the ninth word is "meters," and the tenth word is "feet." In which of the following situations would the participants be most likely to remember the previous exposure to "feet"?

Cindy and Linda are both eyewitnesses to a bank robbery. At the police station, they each select Mike from a police lineup and say, "He's the thief!" It turns out, though, that Mike has been a customer at the store at which Cindy works while Linda has never before seen Mike. With this background

Describe the case of H.M. Describe two memory tests that H.M. would not be able to complete and two tasks that he might successfully complete. Based on your knowledge of memory and neuroscience, explain why he would show this pattern of results.

If given a lexical decision task, would you respond faster to the pair "iPod: Music" or "Dog: Rug"? Explain your answer by including 1) a description of the lexical decision procedure. 2) an explanation of semantic priming. 3) a reference to the spreading activation network.

You are reading The Onion (a satirical news magazine) and see a headline that states "FDA Approves Napalm as Medication," which you find interesting. Later on you are talking to several friends. One suggests that napalm is very dangerous and the other says it is not all that bad. You have a feeling that you read something about napalm lately and decide to chime in. Given what you know about familiarity, how would you likely respond to your friend's debate?

An investigator asks, "Can you remember what happened last Tuesday at noon while you were sitting in the back room of Jane's Restaurant?" This is an example of a question relying on

Like patients with Korsakoff 's syndrome, H.M. has difficulty with

Two groups of participants were asked to learn a series of word pairs and were then given a memory test. Both groups were told to remember the second word in each pair and use the first word as an aid to remember the targets. For Group A, the first word was semantically associated with the target word (e.g., dark-light). For Group B, the first word rhymed with the target word (e.g., sight-light). Each group was given hints during the memory test. These hints could be related to meaning (e.g., "Was there a word associated with 'dark'?") or sound (e.g., "Was there a word associated with 'sight'?"). Which of the following statements is FALSE?

Lexical decision tasks require participants to

Considering the influence of encoding specificity and context dependence on learning and memory, provide three tips for students (or yourself!) who are studying for an upcoming exam.

Evidence for context-dependent learning has been found in all of the following situations EXCEPT