Exam 5: Long-Term Memory

Imagine that a friend has just read a magazine article that discusses flashbulb memories, and your friend argues that people retain a very clear memory of certain emotional events. What would you respond?

Which of the following statements would be most consistent with the constructivist approach to memory?

According to the discussion in the chapter on long-term memory, ecological validity

What can we conclude about the self-reference effect?

Chapter 5 describes a study by Marian and Fausey, who studied English-Spanish bilinguals. They presented two stories in English and two stories in Spanish. Then the researchers asked questions about the stories, sometimes in English and sometimes in Spanish. The results showed that

Which of the following is the most accurate summary statement about the research on autobiographical memory?

Suppose that you look at a new term in a foreign language, and this item is then stored in your memory. Cognitive psychologists call this process

Consider this sentence: "I know that winters in Wisconsin are colder than winters in South Carolina." The knowledge expressed in this sentence is probably coded

Expertise is helpful in remembering material because experts

According to the research on implicit memory and explicit memory,

Suppose that your cousin believes that he has a vivid memory for the details surrounding the death of a famous person. This phenomenon is often called

Research suggests that people with anxiety disorders

Which of the following statements about episodic memory is correct?

Suppose that you have been looking at a magazine that contains a number of photos of attractive desserts, including one of a lemon meringue pie. Later, someone asks you what your favorite dessert is, and you reply "lemon meringue pie," you actually like other desserts equally well, though they were not among those original photos. You have experienced

Compared to control-group participants, people with anterograde amnesia are likely to

Which of the following students has the best understanding about the inconsistent research results on encoding specificity?

Suppose that you are trying to recall a friend's phone number, so you repeat it over and over to yourself without analyzing it or giving it a meaning. According to the levels-of-processing approach, this activity would be categorized as

A person with anterograde amnesia

Chapter 5 discussed a study by Waring and Kensinger (2011), in which people looked at stimuli that were either very positive, very negative, or neutral; each stimulus was shown together with a neutral background, such as a river. The results of this study showed that people were least likely to recognize this neutral background

Your knowledge of how to program your DVR to record your favorite television show is an example of