Exam 8: Memory

According to the three-component model, why do primacy and recency occur?

Suppose that you are shown a list that includes the words "plate," "tree," and "glass." Several months later, you are shown many short word stems such as PL __________, TR __________ and GL __________. Even though you have essentially forgotten about the first list you saw, you are more likely to complete the word stems with PLate, TRee, and GLass than other people who were not shown the initial list. These types of memory tests are called ________________ and they are used to measure ________________ memory.

The encoding of long-term declarative memory is linked to the ______________.

A professor notices that her students write notes from the class lectures either by handwriting in notebooks, or keyboarding on their laptops. Students bring their textbooks to class too. Who can the professor expect to perform better on their tests?

As you try to remember all of the types of long-term memory, you decide to use a mnemonic device. You take each type of memory and visualize it in a different place in your house. You are using _____, which works due to _______.

Individual items grouped into larger units of meaning are called ____________.

Krista is reading a difficult article that is placing great demands on her working memory. Krista is paying extra attention to the meaning of the words in the article. Which part of Krista's brain is active as she is reading this complex article?

When a neural pathway is stimulated by rapid low-intensity bursts of electricity, the synaptic connections in this pathway are activated more easily for a substantial period of time. This process is known as ____________.

Goodman et al. investigated the impact of misleading questions on children's memories for a traumatic event (i.e., a painful hospital procedure) and found that overall, younger children had memories that were less accurate than older children and that misleading questions had _______ effect on children's memories for this particular event.

If you remember every detail of the last hockey game you attended, you are experiencing

You have certain expectations about what a class is like and what is appropriate behaviour in the classroom. This would suggest that you have a ____________ for classes.

The inability of most people to remember personal experiences from the first few years of their lives is technically called

Consider the following two lists: 1. car, sofa, tree; 2. honour, truth, justice. The first list should be easier to remember in part because

Another name for short-term memory is

Liza has geography and history tests on Monday. On Sunday, she studies history first and then geography. However, she has difficulty recalling geography information; history information interferes with the recall of geography information. What kind of interference is Liza experiencing?

The recency effect appears to be a result of the early transfer of information into long-term memory.

If a researcher flashes red, yellow and green lights sequentially and asks you to recall the order of the lights you saw, you would be relying on your long-term memory to answer the researcher's question?

It is generally thought that the process of memory consolidation occurs in the

Which of the following best illustrates how problems with encoding can contribute to forgetting?

From the perspective of neural networks, your ability to think of the concept "cheeseburger" is likely associated with ____________.