Exam 8: Memory

While studying for a test, imagine that you focused a great deal of attention on the meaning of the information and attempted to relate it to examples and concepts that you are already familiar with. Your studying would best be considered an example of:

You are off to the grocery store and need to buy 20 items. Unfortunately you could not write them down and must remember them on your own. Which of the following strategies will help you remember the list?

As you pick up your guitar and start to play a song, you need to access your

In order to investigate the brain systems involved in episodic memory, Dr. Jones gathers fMRI readings from participants as they recall events from the previous day. Dr. Jones's research is best categorized as an example of a:

Anterograde amnesia is said to occur when memory is lost for events that occurred prior to the occurrence of amnesia.

All else being equal, you are likely to remember more during an exam if you write the test in the same room you had your classes. How could we explain this?

A student, mentioned in the text book, wondered why he failed the first exam. After examining his textbook, the professor knew that this student stood little chance of success because he only used

The amnesia patient H.M. had an operation that accidentally caused memory damage and consequently he showed a mild memory loss for the events in his life that occurred one to two years before the operation. This type of memory loss is an example of what is called:

Stephanie just broke up with her boyfriend, Paul. Then Scott asks her to the homecoming dance. At the dance that night, Stephanie and Scott have a wonderful time. When Scott walks Stephanie to the door he is dismayed when she kisses him goodnight and calls him Paul. Stephanie has just illustrated:

The distortion of a memory by misleading post-event data or facts is known as:

One of your best friends was in a car accident and now she cannot remember the events that occurred just before the accident. This memory loss is an example of

Regarding eyewitness identifications of possible perpetrators:

The tendency of people to remember words at the beginning and end of a list better than words presented in the middle of the list is called the _.

Vivid recollections of distinctive, positive or negative events that trigger strong emotional responses are called:

Patients with retrograde amnesia have problems with retrieval of information while patients with anterograde amnesia suffer from problems with _.

"Priming" refers to the activation of one concept by another and is associated with the concept of "spreading activation".

H.M. is a patient with a memory disorder who has been studied extensively. One of the most interesting findings for scientist Brenda Milner was H.M.'s performance _ because it demonstrated evidence of procedural memory.

Research has found that self-generating many retrieval cues facilitates memory. It is assumed that this type of processing facilitates encoding by:

Once you learn how to ride a bicycle, you never forget. This skill would be retained in your

The iconic store and echoic store are subsystems that are important parts of: