Exam 6: Memory

The "lost-in-the-mall" technique was developed by psychologist Elizabeth Loftus and involves leading participants through an unfamiliar shopping center or malland then asking them to retrace the path back to the starting point.

Your general knowledge of words, facts, names, definitions,and other assorted trivia reflects which type of long-termmemory?

The content of earliest autobiographical memories for Taiwanese and Chinese college students tended to concernroutine activities in the company of other people.

People who suffer from retrograde amnesia are unable to form new episodic memories.

According to the working memory model developed by British psychologist Alan Baddeley, the "phonological loop" is the component that is specialized for spatial or visual material,such as remembering the layout of a room or city.

Despite the claims of those who advocate recovery therapy,most survivors of trauma are troubled by NOT being able to forget details surrounding the traumatic experience.

When seven-year-old Grace had to recite the Girl Scout Pledge in front of the other members of her Brownie troop,she had trouble remembering some of the lines in the middleof the pledge. This illustrates:

The hippocampus and medial temporal lobe transfer newly encoded memories to long-term memory.

Although forgetting important information can create problems, not being able to forget anything would also create problems.

Researchers William Marmie and Alice Healy (2004) asked participants to study an unfamiliar coin for short periods oftime, ranging from 15 seconds to 60 seconds. What did thestudy find?

Based on several lines of evidence, today's memory researchers recognize that long-term memory is a simple,singular memory system.

According to the working memory model developed by British psychologist Alan Baddeley, the "central executive":

Janette was absolutely certain that she knew the name of the fundamentalist religious group that was involved in the standoff with the FBI in Waco, Texas, almost two decades ago,but she could not think of the name of the group. This is an example of:

Implicit memory is:

In his eighth-grade history class, Michael had to reciteLincoln's Gettysburg Address from memory. Michael did wellat the beginning and end of the Address, but forgot some sentences in the middle. This example illustrates the seria lposition effect.

The anterograde amnesia experienced by H.M. was the result of surgery that removed H.M.'s hippocampus.

Every new memory that a person forms is actively constructed rather than simply recorded.

One form of motivated forgetting is suppression, in which all memory of an event or experience is blocked from conscious awareness.

Based on his research, Ebbinghaus found that:

According to the Enhancing Well-Being with Psychology feature, which of the following helps the process of consolidating new memories?