Exam 8: Memory

To take advantage of the principle that memory is enhanced by associations between concepts and improves our understanding of how diverse elements are related, material is organized _____________.

Imagine that you are conducting an experiment in which participants are asked to judge, on a scale of 1-10, how aggressive someone in a video appears. You have two conditions: one in which participants are asked to make this judgment while referring to the person as 'the perpetrator', the other asks the same thing but refers to the same person as 'the defendant'. Based on prior work, what would you expect?

How do neural network models differ from associative network models?

Maintenance rehearsal is more effective than elaborative rehearsal for transferring information to long-term memory storage.

What is the serial position effect? Under what conditions do primacy and recency occur?

A person who has received damage to his amygdala will most likely

According to Alan Baddeley, the central executive is a control process that is part of long-term memory.

Based on memory research, therapists should ____________.

According to the __________ when information is encoded using both verbal and visual encoding, it is more likely that at least one of the codes will be available later to facilitate recall.

Describe in detail the model of memory originally proposed by Atkinson and Shiffrin.

When studying the sections of a chapter, Susan notices that her best recall is of the sections she studies last. Her recall of the information learnt just before testing herself is known as the __________ effect.

If we compare the three-stage model of memory to a computer's processes, we can say that the RAM in a computer, that is, the "mental workspace," is like our

Which of the following would best help you remember the word "cortex"?

Which of the following would be the best example of episodic memory?

Once you learn how to ride a bicycle, you never forget. This skill would be retained in your

Identify encoding, storage, retrieval, and motivational processes that have been hypothesized to contribute to forgetting.

A professor emphasizes that his students should pay attention to the meaning of the information in the textbooks, and how the information is related to our lives, instead of just repeating the information without understanding it much. The professor is encouraging his students to practice __________ rehearsal.

One Friday evening you meet that "special someone" for whom you have been searching your whole life. The person gives you a phone number, but you have no pen to write it down. In your excited state you are unable to rehearse the phone number in your head. How long can you expect your short-term memory to remember the number?

In order to transfer material from short-term to long-term memory it is necessary to engage in

In the movie 50 first dates, Drew Barrymore had a retrograde amnesia?