Exam 8: Memory

At a meeting for the Habitat for Humanity Club, you meet a female named Judy who you are interested in getting to know better. You don't have a pen, but you have a good memory and you ask for her phone number. On your way home you memorize the number. You are all set to call her when you get home, but on your way you meet an old high school friend, Jim, who wants to have a get together. He is in a hurry and just shouts his number as he drives away. Once you get home you realize you have forgotten Judy's number, but remembered Jim's number. This is due to

The concept of state-dependent memory asserts that memory retrieval will be better if

If you suddenly lost your episodic memory, which of the following would you no longer be able to do?

The theory that suggests that there is a single node associated with each concept in memory is called the ________________ network theory.

Emile, Troy and Zhang were each given a list of 500 words to memorize. Emile was asked look at a word and write down three associations for each. Troy was asked to look at a word and write down one association for each. Zhang was asked to simply look at the words. Who would you expect to recall the most words from the list?

After taking the college entrance exam, Sidney was very upset as she drove home. She felt she had done poorly on the exam. The fact that Sidney was able to drive the familiar route home and arrive safely, even though she was so preoccupied thinking about the exam is due to her __________ memory.

Peter is studying for an exam and wants to maximize his learning. He knows that the best way to retrieve information is to encode it with multiple cues for retrieval. Therefore Peter finds out the room the exam will be given in and he goes to that room each night to study for the exam. Peter is relying on maximizing the advantage that he might receive from

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 means that we would classify his memory for this task as

Words at the end of a list are typically remembered better than words presented in the middle. This is known as the recency effect and it presumably happens because the last few words on the list remain in __________ memory.

When Mario says "rescue" Luigi thinks "princess," "castle," and "adventure." The stimulus of Mario's words, which activated concepts already in Luigi's mind, was a/an

Your new strategy for studying seems to be working well. You first go through the lecture notes and textbook readings, decide which information is the most important, and then highlight it. Then you go back and try to relate the highlighted information to your own life. This strategy is probably effective because it uses _____________ rehearsal.

When the encoding specificity principle is applied to ___________, we can adequately explain the phenomenon of context-dependent memory.

Identify practical principles of encoding and retrieval that can be used to enhance memory.

George Sperling attempted to assess the duration of echoic memory by briefly presenting an image of a 3 * 4 array of letters.

Leroy is listening to a new CD. The artist used sampling (taking a recording from one source and incorporating it into a new recording) on one track. As soon as he hears it, Leroy knows the sample is from a movie, but he can't remember which one. This is called

Ice skating is a learned skill and is stored in ____________________ memory.

If your mother asks you what grade you received on your psychology exam, both "grade" and "psychology" would be ____________.

When you try to remember your 10^th birthday party, you always picture a younger version of yourself sitting around a cake with friends. However, you've recently come across some old photos of that day which reminded you that (because of a last-minute change with the day the party took place) there actually was no cake that year. What could help account for this mistake?

Although the ____________ effect is thought to be a result of the early transfer of information to long-term memory, the ___________ effect appears to be a result of information remaining in short-term memory.

If you are told to remember a list of items or concepts by forming an image and linking each word to a different room in your house, you would be using