Exam 8: Memory

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 (due to test anxiety), the concept of state-dependent memory would predict that your recall would be poor and the concept of context-dependent memory would predict that your recall would __________.

People often distort their memories by using ______________ to organize information in ways that fit in with their expectations and assumptions about the world.

If you take a large lecture class, you would probably see the same students every day in class, but you would have a difficult time recognizing all of them. Because most of these students are unimportant to you, you do not process their faces in a meaningful way, forgetting their faces as a result of ____________.

Results from Hermann Ebbinghaus's studies of the forgetting process revealed that memory ____________.

After cramming a lot of information for her finals, Ianna told her friend that her brain was full. She assured her friend that she would not be able to remember anything new until she forgot what she had learned for her classes. Is it possible for Ianna's long-term memory to be full?

Sir Frederick Bartlett's experiment showing how people misremembered various elements of a unique Pacific Northwest Indian story is most strongly related to which of the following?

Your friend Paulo was in a car crash and when you asked him what happened he could not remember anything immediately before the crash. Paulo is suffering from

People with retrograde amnesia have problems with __________________ of information, while people with anterograde amnesia have problems with ______________ of information.

Individuals who reported recovered memories of alien abduction showed __________ in a lab situation.

The amnesia patient H.M. was able to correctly perform a mirror-tracing task, but he had no recollection of ever having learned it. This example most clearly illustrates the difference between _________________ memory and ____________ memory.

A researcher who damages particular parts of an animal's brain and then observes the impact of this damage on memory and learning is involved in what is considered to be a non-human animal lesion experiment.

Research has found that the primacy effect disappears if

Memories are...

A patient arrives at the emergency room and seems to have difficulty with various aspects of working memory. You might expect damage to the

Researchers now believe that memories are not stored like video recordings at various locations in the brain, but rather, are distributed throughout the brain. The region of the brain that plays an important role in consolidating our memories before they are stored across the brain is the _______________.

When learning her spelling words for the vocabulary test, Yvonne forms a visual image of each word as she reads it out loud. According to a certain theory, using this method her memory for the words will be greater than if she had simply read them out loud. This is referred to as the __________________ theory.

Because it requires people to attend to the meaning of the information being presented, elaborative rehearsal is more effective in terms of facilitating the process where information is effectively stored in long-term memory than _____________________.

The intentional processing of information that requires conscious attention is called ________________ processing.

When a psychology student is having a hard time recalling information learned in chapter 2 of this textbook because they have learned a lot of material in chapters 3,4,5 and 6 then this is because of a proactive interference?

The phenomenon of state-dependent memory can be understood by applying the principle of encoding specificity to external stimuli and cues.