Exam 8: Memory

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

How effectively do maintenance and elaborative rehearsal process information into long-term memory?

Stephanie just broke up with her boyfriend, Paul. Then Scott asks her to the homecoming dance. At the dance that night, Stephanie and Scott have a wonderful time. When Scott walks Stephanie to the door he is dismayed when she kisses him goodnight and calls him Paul. Stephanie has just illustrated

The amygdala is to the prefrontal cortex as ____________.

Research has revealed that the most effective way to improve recall memory is having multiple retrieval cues that are ______________.

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

Troy knows how to tie his own shoes and can do it almost without thinking about it as he ties them. The steps that Troy executes to tie his shoes is part of his __________________.

Men and women are equally accurate in their eyewitness identifications of possible perpetrators, but women are more confident in the identifications they have made.

You note that a patient of yours has an abnormal amount of plaques and tangles in his brain. What would you expect?

Discuss the limitations of short-term memory and describe two ways that they can be overcome. Why is short-term memory sometimes called "working memory" and, according to Alan Baddeley, what are four different components of working memory?

If you were asked to list the two different types of declarative memory, this would be an example of what is called a ____________ test.

Working (short-term) memory encodes information as ____________.

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

Amadi remembers learning to ride a bike, including his feeling of pride when he was finally able to stay upright without any help. For Amadi, this is a/an ______________ memory.

Sheryl is able to rehearse her lines in the school play while riding her bicycle to school in the morning. Both of these tasks require processing, but in the case of learning her lines, the processing is

A person uses the word "HOMES" to remember the names of the Great Lakes (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior). This memory enhancing technique is best viewed as an example of

Forgetting occurs because physical memory traces are thought to fade away with time and disuse. This is referred to as ______________.

Short-term memory has a limited capacity, but if I wanted to increase that capacity I might try

All else being equal, you are likely to remember more during an exam if you write the test in the same room you had your classes. How could we explain this?

Leichtman and Ceci investigated how misleading information can impact children's recall of information. Their results revealed that