Exam 8: Memory

Leichtman and Ceci investigated how misleading information can impact children's recall of information. Their results revealed that:

Shopping lists and appointment calendars are considered to fall into which category of memory enhancement strategies?

The principle that memory is enhanced by associations between concepts and improves our understanding of how diverse elements are related explains that material is organized ________.

Flashbulb memories are often vivid and easy to remember and research has shown that they are frequently .

Memory is enhanced by creating a perceptual set or a readiness to perceive, organize, and interpret information in a particular way. This is attributable to _.

Kim and Jordan 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 where Kim works. Jordan has never seen Mike before. With this background, whose identification of Mike is more valuable to the police?

All of the following were mentioned as suggestions to improve memory EXCEPT:

Which area of the brain appears to play a key role in working memory, particularly central executive functions?

When you mentally repeat the number of houses you are looking as you drive around a neighbourhood, you are using the Model. Component of Baddeley's working memory

In order to transfer material from short-term to long-term memory it is necessary to engage in

Dr. Patrick works for a drug company. She is trying to develop a drug that will enhance memory by enhancing long-term potentiation. Which of the following chemicals should she target?

Our tendency to recall something or to recognize it as familiar but to forget where we encountered it is called:

When learning her spelling words for the vocabulary test, Yvonne forms a visual image of each word as she reads it out loud. According to a certain theory, using this method her memory for the words will be greater than if she had simply read them out loud. This Is referred to as the theory.

Which of the following best illustrates how problems with encoding can contribute to forgetting?

Maintenance rehearsal is more effective than elaborative rehearsal for transferring information to long-term memory storage.

Yesterday Jen's dad sent her to the grocery store for a few last minute items for dinner. Jen repeated the list to herself as she walked to the store. Although she did not remember a few of the items yesterday, she did remember the first several and last several on her Dad's list. Today she can't remember the last few items on the list but she continues to recall the first several items. Most likely these items that were the first items her father listed:

Classically conditioned responses are to procedural memory as general factual knowledge of the world is to _.

Research has revealed that the cerebellum plays a particularly important role in the formation of:

Chunking refers to the process whereby:

Some memory theorists propose that memory can be represented as being similar to a massive system of linked ideas and concepts such as a(n) _.