Exam 6: Memory

Researchers using fMRI scanning have found that __________.

Zara, a psychology major, just conducted a survey for class in which she asked students about their opinions regarding evolution. When Zara thinks back on this experience, which of the following statements is accurate?

Declarative memory can be divided into short-term memory and working memory.

Pezdek and colleagues have found that false memories are more likely to be formed for plausible false events than for implausible ones.

Research by Elizabeth Loftus shows that eyewitness recognition is very prone to what psychologists call __________.

"The effectiveness of memory retrieval is directly related to the similarity of cues present when the memory was encoded to the cues present when the memory is retrieved." What concept does this statement describe?

Loftus has found that eyewitness memory is extremely reliable and doesn't change over time.

When someone looks at an image, the retina turns the light rays from it into neural messages that go up to the optic nerve so the brain can interpret them. This process is called __________.

Which of the following statements about flashbulb memories is TRUE?

Memory is defined as an active system that consists of three processes. They are __________.

__________ theory states that we forget information because other information gets in the way.

Our visual sensation of a passing automobile would be initially stored in __________.

Chunking is a means of __________.

Iconic memory is to echoic memory as __________.

In the semantic network model of memory, concepts that are related in meaning are __________.

Tiana is taking an exam in her history class. On the exam, there is a question that asks her to state and discuss the five major causes of the Trans-Caspian War. Tiana remembers four of them. She knows there is a fifth and can almost remember it-she knows that it starts with a "T"-but she can't recall it before time is up. As Tiana is walking down the stairs, she suddenly remembers that the fifth point is taxes, but it is too late. Tiana was suffering from __________.

Jada is taking an exam in her history class. On the exam, there is a question that asks her to state and discuss the five major causes of the Trans-Caspian War (whatever that was!). Jada remembers four of them. She knows there is a fifth, but time is up. As Jada is walking down the stairs, she suddenly remembers the fifth point, but it is too late. Jada had a problem with __________.

Echoic memory is the auditory form of sensory memory, which takes the form of an echo that lasts for up to 10 seconds.

According to Baddeley, which memory system is BEST conceived of as three interrelated systems: central executive, visuospatial sketchpad, and auditory action recorder?

The misinformation effect refers to the tendency of people who are asked misleading questions or given misleading information to incorporate that information into their memories of a particular event.