Exam 7: Memory

The ability to correctly identify previously learned information is known as __________ memory.

Conscious is to suppression as unconscious is to

Greg is on the trivia team for his fraternity. When the final deciding question was asked during a competition, Greg was sure he knew the answer since he had answered a similar question during practice, but he just couldn't retrieve the information in time to "buzz in." The other team did "buzz in" with the correct answer and won this match. Greg later said that he felt like the answer was on the "tip of his tongue," but it would just not come to mind. He had experienced a memory that was

Which of the following is considered a retrieval strategy?

In a classic experiment, a psychologist read a short passage in Greek to his son every day when the boy was between 15 months and 3 years of age. At age 8, he was asked to recall the passage, to recognize the passage, and later to memorize the original quotations and others of equal difficulty. Which of the following was the most sensitive measure of memory in this study?

A witness may select a photo of a suspect from police files or see a photo in the news. Later, the witness identifies the suspect in a lineup or in court. Did the witness really remember the suspect from the scene of the crime? Or was it from the more recently seen photograph? This illustrates the problem of

Forgetting may be due to a failure in any of the following EXCEPT

Monica skipped lunch today and is now very hungry. Suddenly she remembers the day she was preparing for some medical tests and could not eat anything and how hungry she felt then. Her present hunger triggered a past memory of when she was very hungry, which suggests that memory is

As a visitor to England, you as an American, have difficulty remembering to drive on the left side of the road as they do and to look in the opposite way before crossing the street. This illustrates

Strategies used in a cognitive interview that help recreate the context in which the information was learned include

When Martin boils down the paragraphs in his physics book to one or two important points, he is helping his memory by using the technique called

Memories of historical fact, such as the names of the battles during the Civil War or mathematical formulas would be considered __________ memories.

When taking a test, a helpful strategy that can aid recall of information is to go through the alphabet, trying each letter as the first sound of a name or word you are seeking.

Déjà vu experiences feel familiar but yet strange because

If you witnessed a crime and were asked to pick out the person who committed the crime from a lineup of six people, the other five people are called

When a new experience triggers the retrieval of a past experience without yielding any of the details, this new experience seems familiar even though the older memory is too weak to rise to the level of awareness. This experience is known as

Remembering what you had for lunch yesterday and the family reunion last weekend are examples of a type of declarative memory known as __________ memory.

Regarding the forgetting of information, which of the following statements is FALSE?

A subpart of declarative memories that has no connections with times or places so that people do not remember when and where they learned these specific facts are referred to as ___________ memories.

According to blood flow patterns, the cortex of the brain appears to be where which type of memory is stored?