Exam 7: Memory

While studying, Nadia tries to visualize the room where she will be tested. Nadia's method of studying will

When Sarah relates her own life experiences to what she is learning in her psychology class, it will be easier for her to recall the information on an exam. Sarah is engaging in

When Eduardo comes home from second grade, he tells his mother that he learned the names of the planets in order today. Over time, Eduardo will forget when and where he learned the names of the planets but will retain the planet names forever. This illustrates that the formation of semantic memories is due to the forgetting of __________ memories.

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

To learn college-level information, you must mentally reflect and look for connections between the information you are learning and your existing knowledge, a strategy known as

In the classic experiment in which two groups of students studied lists of words with one group staying awake before the testing and the other group sleeping, the students who slept after studying the list remembered more because which of the following was held to a minimum?

Thoughts, inferences, and mental associations may be mistaken for true memories due to

Which of the following statements would be considered good advice to improve memory for your college studies?

Regarding eidetic imagery, which of the following statements is FALSE?

Anthony suffered a stroke that severely damaged his hippocampus. Although he remembers his life before the stroke in detail, Anthony is unable to form new long-term memories. Anthony suffers from __________ amnesia.

On a test that measures her attention and short-term memory, Tanya is asked to correctly repeat seven digits. This test is called the ___________ test.

When a person is sad and depressed, he or she has a tendency to remember more sad memories, which illustrates __________ learning.

Eidetic memory is more common in childhood and becomes rare by adulthood.

If you did not have which of the following you would recall countless scraps of unimportant information, such as the ingredients on your cereal box and every street number you have ever seen?

A memory, which can seem accurate but is not, is known as a(n)

José studies, stays awake for eight hours, then sleeps for eight hours. Santos studies, then sleeps eight hours, and is then awake for eight hours. Santos will remember more than José because Santos experienced more of which of the following before the interference began?

The two subcategories of declarative memory are

The difficulty experienced when changing from a car with a manual transmission to one with an automatic transmission is an example of

If you have ever encountered a pull-type handle on a door that must be pushed open, you have experienced

Justin plays drums for a local hard rock band. When a country and western band asks Justin to fill in for their drummer, Justin initially has some difficulty adjusting to this new band's tempo since he is so used to the timing of his own band's "beat." This initial difficulty in adjusting to the new "beat" is best explained by