Exam 8: Memory

Don dove into a swimming pool and hit his head in the side. He suffered a concussion and damaged his hippocampus. Now he cannot remember anything that happened after he woke up. Don is suffering from

Which of the following statements regarding Alzheimer's disease is true?

The associative network model asserts that a node in a memory network consists of an idea, a word, or a concept, while the model that argues that a node is physical in nature and does not contain individual units of information is the model.

You note that a patient of yours has an abnormal amount of plaques and tangles in his brain. What would you expect?

Approximately, 5 to 9 meaningful pieces of information is the capacity of ________ memory.

You have forgotten about some incident that occurred several years ago. It was very troubling to you. Rather than having amnesia, your psychoanalyst suggests that this is really a case of

Research by Gail Goodman and her colleagues (1994) examining the effect of misleading questions on children's memories for a single painful hospital procedure revealed that the memories of both younger and older children were not influenced by these questions.

Which of the following was mentioned as a suggestion for improving memory?

A friend asks you to make a phone call for them and tells you the phone number to call. As you walk to the telephone booth, you silently repeat the number to yourself to remember it. This example best demonstrates the process of:

According to the three-component model of memory, the component with the shortest storage time is

Intentional processing that requires conscious attention is best defined as:

George Sperling briefly presented people with arrays of 12 letters (3 rows of 4 letters each) and asked them to immediately recall what they had seen. Under these conditions, people typically recalled:

This

The results of Hermann Ebbinghaus's research on forgetting revealed that forgetting tended to occur rapidly at first and then slowed down noticeably thereafter.

A memory researcher claims that a concept such as "dog" is triggered by the simultaneous firing of nodes #8, #47, and #123 in a network, but if node #8 is simultaneously triggered with nodes #9 and #301, an entirely different concept appears in the mind. The views of this researcher are most consistent with the theory of Memory.

Let's say that you have just heard a long list of words and are then asked to recall them. If I wanted to prevent a recency effect, I could give you a task that interfered with

Retroactive interference occurs when newly acquired information interferes with our ability to recall information that was learned at an earlier time.

Which of the following was mentioned as one of the factors that could possibly account for the substantial and rapid forgetting that occurred to Hermann Ebbinghaus?

Sometimes memory is fabricated - we remember things that never actually occurred. Schacter studied people who claimed that they were abducted by aliens and suggests that these false memories are actually generated by

If you were to perform a mental computation such as adding the numbers 26 and 41 in your head, it is assumed that you would be doing this in your: