Exam 8: Memory

Patients with Alzheimer's disease have profound changes to their brains, which include

Julie is trying to ensure she can remember a particular theory. She is using elaborative rehearsal. By doing so, she is trying to

A 5-year-old tells you a rather unusual story and you are wondering if it is a lie. Research studies investigating how "experts" evaluate the eyewitness testimony of children suggest that you would have _______________ difficulty telling if the child was lying. This appears to be because young children ________________.

Students use their ability to __________ when responding to multiple choice questions on their tests.

Research has revealed that the cerebellum plays a particularly important role in the formation of

Because expert chess players use _______________ more effectively than novice chess players, they can more accurately recall meaningful arrangements of pieces after viewing these arrangements for just a few seconds.

If you were to add the numbers 26 and 41 in your head, it is assumed that you would be doing this in your _____________ memory.

When taking an exam, you need to retrieve information from ____________ memory to answer the questions.

Sir Frederick Bartlett's research on people's memories of a Native American story called "The War of the Ghosts" demonstrated how schemas can cause people to alter key aspects of a story so that it makes sense to them.

If I were to ask you whether the word "FORCE" rhymed with the word "COURSE," to make this distinction you would have to use a method of processing that is considered to be less deep than semantic encoding called __________ encoding.

Dr. Sampson noted that a patient of his had damage to the amygdala. What kind of memory problems would you expect?

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?

Define and differentiate between the following ways of encoding information: 1) automatic processing and effortful processing and 2) structural encoding, phonological encoding, and semantic encoding. Provide an example of each construct.

Hermann Ebbinghaus studied the processes of memory by ____________.

Betsy went to a restaurant last night with some other first year students from her dorm. Although Betsy had never been to this particular restaurant, she knew exactly how to be seated, order, eat, and pay the bill. In her long-term memory, Betsy had a(n) __________ for restaurants.

Professor Carney is conducting a memory study using a technique called partial report. What is she researching?

Which of the following best illustrates the concept of the phonological loop?

Episodic and semantic memory are two subcategories of procedural memory.

Your client claims that she was sexually abused at the age of 5. She had forgotten about the incident and only recently has the memory been recovered. A Freudian psychotherapist would explain this lapse as an example of

While having a coffee at Tim Horton's, a friend suggests a new book you should read. Later that day you are at the bookstore and go to buy the book. But you cannot remember the title. As you leave, you walk by the Tim Horton's and the title comes back to you. This illustrates the principle of