Exam 8: Remembering and Judging

Rhonda can't remember anything about the first several minutes immediately following a car crash in which she was injured. Rhonda is experiencing _______ amnesia.

Sandy, a true believer in astrology, reads in her horoscope that today is her lucky day. She gets so excited that she spills coffee all over herself, necessitating a change of clothes. As a result, she is late for work and for a very important meeting, which in turn gets her into serious trouble with her boss. That evening, her brother is taken to the emergency room. On her way to visit him, Sandy finds a dime in the hospital parking lot. What does research on the confirmation bias suggest that Sandy will do

The amygdala is to the cerebellum as ________ memories are to _________.memories.

Which of the following defines long-term potentiation (LTP)

Lydia can't figure out if she dreamed about a person or whether she met him at a recent party. This kind of uncertainty reflects the limitations of

In a lexical decision task in which participants must judge whether a string of letters forms a word in English, participants are first shown the string BANANA. Based on what you know about categories and spreading activation, which of the following strings might participants then judge the most rapidly

Which of the following defines elaborative encoding

Which of the following neurotransmitters is correctly paired with a description of its role in memory

In a list of items, we tend to forget the middle ones rather than the ones at the beginning or end.

A schema is:

Psychologists sometimes use the adjective _________ to refer to things that attract our attention.

According to the ________ effect, _________ practice leads to better learning than __________ practice.

Dr. Fernald is conducting a memory experiment. One group of participants has to decide whether each of a list of words begins with the same letter as a target word; a second group has to determine whether each of a list of words rhymes with a target word; finally, a third group has to determine whether each of a list of words is a synonym or an antonym of a target word. Later, all participants are asked to recall the list words. According to levels-of-processing theory, which group's performance should be the highest The lowest

Clarice presses a key on her computer to save a document she has been editing. A file is then created on her computer's hard drive. The computer's action is most similar to the memory activity of _________. The computer's hard drive is similar to _________ memory in the three-stage memory model.

Which of the following is the best definition of the misinformation effect

Psychologists use the term ______ memory to refer to "photographic" memory.

A judgment strategy in which one uses the ease with which examples come to mind as the basis for judging how common events really are is called the _______ heuristic.

Explicit memory underlies the ability to swing a golf club.

"What's your social" the associate asks over the phone. "One, six, four . . ." you begin. After a brief pause, you continue, "seventy-two . . . sixteen thirty-eight." To ease the burden on the associate's short-term memory, you are giving the number in ______ rather than as individual digits.

The ________ effect refers to attitude change that occurs over time as we forget when and where we learned information. It reflects the limitations of _________.