Exam 8: Memory

The "central executive" is a control process that is thought to be part of long-term memory.

The cognitive revolution and the invention of computers both contributed to the metaphor of human memory as a(n)

A proponent of the neural network theory of memory would most likely argue that each __________ in your brain is a node in a network.

An eyewitness from a crime is asked to look through some mug shots to see if he can identify the person who committed the crime. After doing this, he sees a police lineup of suspects and identifies one of the men as the person who committed the crime because he looks very familiar. Unfortunately, the man in the lineup looks familiar not because the eyewitness saw him commit the crime but because he saw his face in the mug shot books a few hours ago. This example demonstrates the phenomenon of ____________.

Based on prior work (Jones, 1990; Nickerson & Adams, 1979), how good would we expect the average person's memory to be for details of an everyday object like a loonie?

Aram volunteers at a nursing home, where he reads and writes letters for residents who can't do those things for themselves. Though he visits every week, Mr. Larue never remembers him, and he has to introduce himself each time they interact. One of the nurses explains that Mr. Larue has Alzheimer's disease (AD). The most characteristic changes in the brain associated with AD are

Jim has a hard time remembering to do things that he plans to do in the future, such as mailing letters or remembering to call someone. These memories are examples of what are called prospective memories and the part of the brain that is thought to play an important role in their retrieval is the __________.

A patient of Dr. Kalif's is suffering from Korsakoff's syndrome. What symptoms would you expect this patient to show?

Expert chess players possess schemas that allow them to recall more randomly placed chess pieces than novices do.

Research on the phenomenon of mood-congruent recall has found that people tend to have a better memory

Memory is better when the conditions present during encoding match those that are present during retrieval according to the _____________.

Regarding eyewitness identifications of possible perpetrators

Overlearning tends to ____________.

Last semester, Anna Maria took a sociology course, and this semester she is taking a psychology course. Unfortunately, she is having difficulty remembering some of the psychology terms because they were defined differently in her sociology course, and she gets them mixed up. Anna Maria's difficulty in learning psychology is most likely a result of ____________.

A friend asks you to make a phone call for them and tells you the phone number to call. As you walk to the telephone booth, you silently repeat the number to yourself to remember it. This example best demonstrates the process of

An eyewitness from a crime is asked to look through some mugshots to see if he can identify the person who committed the crime. After doing this, he sees a police lineup of suspects and identifies one of the men as the person who committed the crime because he looks very familiar. Unfortunately, the man in the lineup looks familiar not because the eyewitness saw him commit the crime, but because he saw his face in the mugshot books a few hours ago and the eyewitness has forgotten this. This example best demonstrates the phenomenon of

Which of the following represents a procedural memory?

If we compare the three-stage model of memory to a computer's stages of processing, we can say that the hard drive in a computer is like our

The duration of short-term memory is approximately ____________.

Contradicting conventional wisdom, research has revealed that flashbulb memories are not as accurate as people usually think they are.