Exam 8: Memory

Toby and Karen just met their new neighbour, Justine. Toby repeats Justine's name over and over to remember it. Meanwhile, Karen notes that Justine is leaving "just in time" to get dinner on the table. The following day, who is more likely to recall the neighbour's name and why?

A memory researcher claims that a concept such as "dog" is triggered by the simultaneous firing of nodes #8, #47, and #123 in a network, but if node #8 is simultaneously triggered with nodes #9 and #301, an entirely different concept appears in the mind. The views of this researcher are most consistent with the ____________ theory of memory.

The principle that memory is enhanced by associations between concepts and improves our understanding of how diverse elements are related explains that material is organized ____________.

There is clear evidence that someone could actually repress a memory for many, many years.

If you were to perform a mental computation such as adding the numbers 26 and 41 in your head, it is assumed that you would be doing this in your

When old memories interfere with a person's ability to recall newer memories, it is called ____________.

Flashbulb memories seem vivid and clear. They are most often

Dr. Albert conducts a study in which she first trains rats to run a maze. She then intentionally damages a particular portion of the rats' thalamus and observes the impact that this has on the rats' learning and performance in the maze. Dr. Albert's research is best characterized as an example of a

The superior recall of words presented at the end of a list is referred to as the ____________ effect.

Chase and Simon (1973) and Gobet and Simon (1998) demonstrated experimentally that, for both football and chess players...

When researchers refer to a neural pathway as being "stronger," they specifically mean that ____________.

What is sensory memory? How did Sperling assess the duration of iconic memory?

As you pick up your guitar and start to play a song, you need to access your

Infantile amnesia is to prospective memory as ____________.

Discuss the encoding, storage, retrieval and motivational processes that are related to forgetting.

You pass some one on the street and he looks familiar to you. You don't remember the person's name, but you can recall that you met him at a New Year's Eve party last year at a friend's house and you can even recall what he was wearing. These types of memories are best described as examples of

The method of loci is a memory-enhancing technique based on _________________ and it is consistent with the assumptions of _________________ theory.

The method of loci is a memory enhancing technique based on imagery and it is consistent with the predictions of ___________ theory.

Sarah is trying to learn the difference between "Principal" and "Principle." She devices a method to differentiate between the two words: "Your principal is your pal. A rule can be called a principle." Sarah is using __________.

In the case of the amnesia patient H.M. presented in the text, it was found that