Exam 8: Memory

Try as she might, Zoë cannot remember anything from the first three years of her life. Which of the following is not one of the explanations for infantile amnesia?

Because they believe that short-term memory is a system that actively and simultaneously processes different kinds of information and supports other cognitive functions such as problem solving, many modern cognitive memory researchers refer to short-term memory as _____________ memory.

When asked to reproduce or draw a picture from memory, people consistently remember scenes as being more expansive or wider than they actually are. This phenomenon is known as

The amnesia patient H.M. showed a mild memory loss for the events in his life that occurred one to two years before the operation that accidentally caused his memory damage. This type of memory loss is an example of ____________.

Imagery is considered a component of automatic processing?

Successful retrieval of memories that have an emotional component may be associated with _________ activity.

Expert knowledge can be viewed as a process of developing ____________.

With respect to memory recall, the recency effect occurs because the words at the end of the list

The concept of state-dependent memory can best be understood by taking the more general encoding specificity principle and applying it to ____________.

Research on the impact of misinformation effects on children has revealed that

Intentional processing that requires conscious attention is best defined as

Many modern cognitive memory researchers believe that short-term memory is a system that actively and simultaneously processes different kinds of information and supports other cognitive functions, such as problem solving. Based on this belief, these cognitive memory researchers refer to short-term memory as

If you are using a computer, the keystrokes you type are translated into an electrical code that the computer can understand. This process is most similar to which of the following human memory constructs?

A soldier has returned from serving duty in a war-stricken country. The soldier has some emotionally laden memories of the war experience. What part of the soldier's brain was involved in forming emotionally strong memories?

Let's say that you have just heard a long list of words and are then asked to recall them. If I wanted to prevent a recency effect, I could give you a task that interfered with

The idea that a concept in memory is represented by a particular set of nodes and is retrieved when the nodes in that set are activated in parallel belongs to the proposition of memory known as

Explain how source confusion contributes to misinformation effects.

This component of working memory allows us to temporarily store and manipulate images. This component is the _____________.

Betsy went to a restaurant last night with friends. Though she had never been to this particular restaurant, she knew how to be seated, order, eat, and pay the bill. Betsy has a/an ______________ for going to restaurants.

The tendency of people to remember words at the beginning and end of a list better than words presented in the middle of the list is called the _____________________.