Exam 8: Memory

A group of experimental participants are shown a photo of a stuffed bear placed on a large dining room table. The photographer 'zooms in' and the image is taken relatively close to the stuffed animal, such that the bear takes up approximately 50% of the space in the photo (the remaining 50% is table). If the participants are asked to draw a picture that reproduces the photo they saw, based on prior work (Intraub et al., 1996, 1998), what error would you expect?

Research on the phenomenon of mood-congruent recall has indicated that people tend to have better recall ____________.

A friend asks you to give him a call later. He would like to go out to dinner. But when dinnertime comes around, you realize that you forgot about it as you eat a burger at fast food chain. This reflects a failure in

Auditory memory, episodic buffer, visuospatial memory, and a control process called the central executive are all thought to be important components of the _____________ memory.

In a lab study, the experimenter has given you a task that places great demand on working memory. If we were to scan your brain, we would find increased activity in

Craik and Lockhart proposed the notion that the more deeply we process information, the better it will be remembered. This is the __________ concept.

Imagine that you have studied for an exam in a noisy environment and your state of physiological arousal has been low while you were studying. If on the day of the exam you were given the test in a quiet environment and your physiological arousal was high (because of test anxiety), the concept of state-dependent memory would predict that your recall would be ________________ and the concept of context-dependent memory would predict that your recall would _________________.

Research with expert and novice chess players by William Chase and Herbert Simon (1973) revealed that experts were able to accurately recall the placement of more chess pieces than novices after a 5-second glance when the ____________.

Memory is ultimately a biochemical event and some researchers have suggested that memory is really a change in synaptic strength. This enduring increase in synaptic strength is referred to as

Chunking is thought to be an effective memory enhancing technique because it increases the raw or total amount of information that we can keep active in _________.

Which of these neurotransmitter systems was identified by your textbook as being particularly affected by Alzheimer's disease?

Kim and Jordan are both eyewitnesses to a bank robbery. At the police station they each select Mike from a police lineup, and say, "He's the thief." It turns out though, that Mike has been a customer at the store where Kim works. Jordan has never seen Mike before. With this background, whose identification of Mike is more valuable to the police?

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?

You make an appointment for your car next week. But when the time comes, you forget all about it. This is a failure in

Memory is better when the conditions present during encoding match those that are present during retrieval. This is in accordance with ____________.

The recency effect is thought to occur because words at the end of the list ____________.

Let's say that you have just heard a long list of words. According to the _________, you are more likely to remember the _______, but the effect disappears if ___________.

Yesterday Jen's dad sent her to the grocery store for a few last minute items for dinner. Jen repeated the list to herself as she walked to the store. Although she did not remember a few of the items yesterday, she did remember the first several and last several on her dad's list. Today she can't remember the last few items on the list but she continues to recall the first several items. Most likely these items that were the first items her father listed

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

A patient of yours is suffering from anterograde amnesia. After taking the medical history, which of the following might you suspect?