Exam 7: Memory.

Regarding how culture affects memories, the Chinese culture tends to emphasize

You are taking a psychology course on-line.It takes you two hours to successfully pass the section on classical conditioning concepts.However, you have to withdraw from the class due to work responsibilities.The next semester, you take the psychology course on-line again, but this time it only takes one hour to go through the section on classical conditioning.This one-hour difference, or 50 percent retention, is referred to as the ___________ score.

During your first presentation in speech class, you experienced an embarrassing moment as you lost your place.It is now three weeks later, and you are about to make your second speech.As you wait your turn, you try to consciously push the disastrous first speech out of your mind.This illustrates

When memories are available but are not accessible, which type of forgetting is most likely involved?

Research on the effectiveness of hypnosis in solving crimes found that

The memory system used for relatively permanent storage of meaningful information is called __________ memory.

Students in one study had the task of trying to recall a list of 600 words.As they read the list, the students were asked to write down three other words closely related in meaning to each listed word.In a test given later, the words each student supplied were used as the retrieval cues to jog memory.The students were able to recall what percent of the original list of 600 words using these cues?

Research with people who have brain damage and are unable to store new memories points to the importance of which brain part in the process of consolidation?

In research studies, rote learning has been shown to be superior to the use of mnemonics in learning technical terms.

Katie is having trouble learning Italian because she finds that having learned German earlier makes it more difficult for her to now learn Italian, which illustrates forgetting due to retroactive interference.

Geraldine witnesses a robbery in the parking lot at her college.At the police station, she is shown one photo at a time of possible suspects and is asked if this is the person she saw.Geraldine is undergoing a

Regarding sleep, memory, and the interference theory of forgetting, which of the following statements is FALSE?

José studies, stays awake for eight hours, then sleeps for eight hours.Santos studies, then sleeps eight hours, and is then awake for eight hours.Santos will remember more than José because Santos experienced more of which of the following before the interference began?

In a research study, using the mnemonic of forming a story or a chain has been used successfully in recalling lists of 20 or more items.

Which memory stage are we largely unaware of but which holds information just long enough for it to be moved to the second memory stage?

When reading her psychology text, Juanita frequently stops and tries to remember what she has just read by restating it in her own words.Juanita is using

Research shows that people who learned a list of words while in a happy mood recalled them better when they were again happy.People who learned the list while sad remembered best when they were sad.This illustrates

If a new experience triggers vague memories of a past experience, without yielding any details, you will experience a type of partial memory known as déjà vu.

When Meridith Maran thought she had recovered vivid memories of being molested by her father, she withdrew herself and her children from any further contact with him.It was not until nine years later that she realized that her "memories" were a fantasy and finally apologized to her father.Meridith Maran had experienced

You are asked to learn the information presented in a psychology Chapter , and you study for four hours.Then three months later, you are asked to study the same Chapter information, and you finish your study in only two hours.In this case, your memory of having learned this information three months ago is shown through