Exam 8: Memory

Which of the following forms of rehearsals is more effective for transferring information from short-term memory to long-term memory?

This multiple-choice test question would be considered an example of a test of ____________ memory.

You suspect that one of your patients has Alzheimer's disease. Which of the following could you look for to confirm this diagnosis?

Describe Ebbinghaus's "forgetting curve" and factors that contributed to his rapid, substantial forgetting.

Describe the nature and some possible causes of retrograde, anterograde, and infantile amnesia.

Which of the following would be most likely to produce a flashbulb memory?

George Sperling briefly presented people with arrays of 12 letters (3 rows of 4 letters each) and asked them to immediately recall what they had seen. Under these conditions, people typically recalled

In the morning you plan to get dinner on your way home from work later that day. If you get home before remembering you were planning to stop for dinner, what kind of memory failure could that be considered to be?

There is a case of a woman suffering from memory loss who could not consciously remember the fact that a researcher had pinpricked her hand the last time they met. Though her memory for events prior to the amnesia are normal, after the amnesia she has experienced difficulty creating new memories. Her memory loss is best considered to be an example of

Associative network theories are to ____________ as neural network theories are to _____________.

Consider the following two lists of words: List 1) man, mad, cap, can, map. List 2) big, huge, broad, long, tall. When presented with these two lists, research indicates that people usually have more difficulty accurately remembering List 1. Baddeley would argue that the reason List 2 is easier is because the list information would be stored in which component of working memory?

When Mario says "rescue" Luigi thinks "princess," "castle," and "adventure." Mario's words activated concepts already in Luigi's mind, a process referred to as

A recall test is generally considered to be easier than a recognition test.

Identify three components of working memory.

What is a schema? Explain how schemas influence encoding.

What three approaches do scientists use to study the brain regions involved in memory?

You are witness to a hit-and-run car accident. Just before the accident you looked directly at the car's license plate. How long can you expect your sensory memory to hold on to that iconic image?

Describe the research by Schacter and his colleagues in examining the neuroscience of retrieving accurate versus fabricated memories.

A study conducted by William Chase and Herbert Simon (1973) demonstrated that experts had superior recall than novices for the placement of chess pieces when the pieces were placed meaningfully on the board. However, this difference disappeared when the pieces were placed randomly, explaining the concept of _____________.

Mantyla (1986) looked at the value of retrieval cues in a sample of university students. This research found that