Exam 8: Memory

At a high school reunion, Miguel is reminiscing with his classmates. He remembers a particularly difficult biology class he took in his senior year. While he vividly remembers what his teacher looked like and thinks that his last name started with the letter K, he can't remember the teacher's entire last name, demonstrating ____________.

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Question 101

This multiple-choice test question would be considered an example of a

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Question 102

With regard to the serial position effect, the primacy effect refers to the superior recall of words presented at/in the ___________ of the list.

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Question 103

A patient of yours has some memory problems. But the problems are very specific-- he can not seem to remember how to drive a car. He also has problems on classical conditioning tasks. You suspect that there may be damage to the

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Question 104

The memory process in which information is retained over time is referred to as

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Question 105

Recency plays an important role in our ability to relying on our memory to recall certain information?

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Question 106

Eric is taking his psychology exam which contains multiple-choice questions. In order to answer the questions, Eric's strategy is to actively search his memory for the answers and, as such, he relies on his ____________ memory.

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Question 107

As you are reading this question, you most likely are not storing images of the way the letters and words look. Instead, you are probably using _ encoding by saying the words to yourself silently and utilizing _ encoding by thinking about their meaning.

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Question 108

Assume that you have been asked to imagine a skier skiing quickly down a mountain. Your would be responsible for storing and temporarily manipulating this image, whereas your would allocate the proper amount of attention to this task and allow you to retrieve an image of a skier from your long-term memory and incorporate it into your current visualization.

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Question 109

Your friend gets in a motorcycle accident that damages his frontal lobe. This damage would most likely affect which of the following aspects of memory?

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Question 110

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

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Question 111

H.M. is a patient with a memory disorder who has been studied extensively. One of the most interesting findings for scientist Brenda Milner was H.M.'s performance _________ because it demonstrated evidence of procedural memory.

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Question 112

According to the three-stage model of memory, when playing a memory game in which a child is shown a tray of toys for a second and is then asked to recall as many of the toys as he can remember, the child is relying on his ___________.

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Question 113

At a meeting for the Habitat for Humanity Club, you meet a female named Judy who you are interested in getting to know better. You don't have a pen, but you have a good memory and you ask for her phone number. On your way home you memorize the number. You are all set to call her when you get home, but on your way you meet an old high school friend, Jim, who wants to have a get together. Once you get home you simply forget to call Judy. This would be an example of

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Question 114

According to the depth of processing model, semantic encoding involves the deepest processing because it requires us to attend to the __________ the information being encoded.

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Question 115

Iconic memory is to echoic memory as ____________.

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Question 116

Sir Frederick Bartlett had his participants read a story called "The War of the Ghosts," a rather unique Native American tale from the 18^th century. Participants' recall of the story 20 hours later was _ and these results are most likely a result of _.

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Question 117

Patients with retrograde amnesia have problems with retrieval of information while patients with anterograde amnesia suffer from problems with _________.

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Question 118

All of the following were mentioned as ways of measuring explicit memory EXCEPT

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Question 119

You are running a study on the serial position effect in your lab. You decide to introduce a 30 second delay at the end of the word list and have participants count backwards by three's. Then they are asked to recall the word list. This procedure should reduce or remove the

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Question 120

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This multiple-choice test question would be considered an example of a

With regard to the serial position effect, the primacy effect refers to the superior recall of words presented at/in the ___________ of the list.

A patient of yours has some memory problems. But the problems are very specific-- he can not seem to remember how to drive a car. He also has problems on classical conditioning tasks. You suspect that there may be damage to the

The memory process in which information is retained over time is referred to as

Recency plays an important role in our ability to relying on our memory to recall certain information?

Eric is taking his psychology exam which contains multiple-choice questions. In order to answer the questions, Eric's strategy is to actively search his memory for the answers and, as such, he relies on his ____________ memory.

As you are reading this question, you most likely are not storing images of the way the letters and words look. Instead, you are probably using _ encoding by saying the words to yourself silently and utilizing _ encoding by thinking about their meaning.

Your friend gets in a motorcycle accident that damages his frontal lobe. This damage would most likely affect which of the following aspects of memory?

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

H.M. is a patient with a memory disorder who has been studied extensively. One of the most interesting findings for scientist Brenda Milner was H.M.'s performance _________ because it demonstrated evidence of procedural memory.

According to the three-stage model of memory, when playing a memory game in which a child is shown a tray of toys for a second and is then asked to recall as many of the toys as he can remember, the child is relying on his ___________.

According to the depth of processing model, semantic encoding involves the deepest processing because it requires us to attend to the __________ the information being encoded.

Iconic memory is to echoic memory as ____________.

Sir Frederick Bartlett had his participants read a story called "The War of the Ghosts," a rather unique Native American tale from the 18^th century. Participants' recall of the story 20 hours later was _ and these results are most likely a result of _.

Patients with retrograde amnesia have problems with retrieval of information while patients with anterograde amnesia suffer from problems with _________.

All of the following were mentioned as ways of measuring explicit memory EXCEPT

You are running a study on the serial position effect in your lab. You decide to introduce a 30 second delay at the end of the word list and have participants count backwards by three's. Then they are asked to recall the word list. This procedure should reduce or remove the

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This multiple-choice test question would be considered an example of a

With regard to the serial position effect, the primacy effect refers to the superior recall of words presented at/in the ___________ of the list.

A patient of yours has some memory problems. But the problems are very specific-- he can not seem to remember how to drive a car. He also has problems on classical conditioning tasks. You suspect that there may be damage to the

The memory process in which information is retained over time is referred to as

Recency plays an important role in our ability to relying on our memory to recall certain information?

Eric is taking his psychology exam which contains multiple-choice questions. In order to answer the questions, Eric's strategy is to actively search his memory for the answers and, as such, he relies on his ____________ memory.

As you are reading this question, you most likely are not storing images of the way the letters and words look. Instead, you are probably using _____________ encoding by saying the words to yourself silently and utilizing _____________ encoding by thinking about their meaning.

Your friend gets in a motorcycle accident that damages his frontal lobe. This damage would most likely affect which of the following aspects of memory?

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

H.M. is a patient with a memory disorder who has been studied extensively. One of the most interesting findings for scientist Brenda Milner was H.M.'s performance _________ because it demonstrated evidence of procedural memory.

According to the three-stage model of memory, when playing a memory game in which a child is shown a tray of toys for a second and is then asked to recall as many of the toys as he can remember, the child is relying on his ___________.

According to the depth of processing model, semantic encoding involves the deepest processing because it requires us to attend to the __________ the information being encoded.

Iconic memory is to echoic memory as ____________.

Sir Frederick Bartlett had his participants read a story called "The War of the Ghosts," a rather unique Native American tale from the 18th century. Participants' recall of the story 20 hours later was _____________ and these results are most likely a result of _____________.

Patients with retrograde amnesia have problems with retrieval of information while patients with anterograde amnesia suffer from problems with _________.

All of the following were mentioned as ways of measuring explicit memory EXCEPT

You are running a study on the serial position effect in your lab. You decide to introduce a 30 second delay at the end of the word list and have participants count backwards by three's. Then they are asked to recall the word list. This procedure should reduce or remove the

Psychology: the Science of Behaviour

Studying Behaviour Scientifically

Biological Foundations of Behaviour

Genes, Evolution, and Behaviour

Sensation and Perception

States of Consciousness

Learning and Adaptation: the Role of Experience

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Intelligence

Motivation and Emotion

Development Over the Lifespan

Behaviour in a Social Context

Personality

Stress, Coping, and Health

Psychological Disorders

Treatment of Psychological Disorders

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As you are reading this question, you most likely are not storing images of the way the letters and words look. Instead, you are probably using _ encoding by saying the words to yourself silently and utilizing _ encoding by thinking about their meaning.

Sir Frederick Bartlett had his participants read a story called "The War of the Ghosts," a rather unique Native American tale from the 18^th century. Participants' recall of the story 20 hours later was _ and these results are most likely a result of _.