Exam 6: Memory

You watch a demonstration taking place on campus. You are excited and when you get home, you tell your roommate Alberta about what you saw. Another roommate, Lucy, returns later and you overhear her excitedly telling Alberta about the same demonstration, but her description doesn't sound anything like what you saw. What most likely accounts for this difference? ​

Thirty years ago, it took Margie ten hours to learn how to ride a bike. She has not ridden a bike since then. Now she is relearning how to ride a bike, but this time, it takes her only five hours. Because it took her less time to relearn the skill than to learn it initially, Margie is demonstrating ____. ​

Homer is trying to remember the different functions of the control panel at the nuclear power plant where he works. He remembers the functions of the different buttons by thinking about the types of donuts that the buttons most resemble. For example, he is supposed to press a red button to shut off the reactors when they are about to have a meltdown. He remembers this because the red button reminds him of cherry donuts, which he eats only during hot weather. The type of processing that Homer is using is ____ rehearsal. ​

Rachael asks Steve, "Do you remember my name?" When Steve says that he does not remember, Rachael says, "I'll give you a hint-it starts with an R ." Rachael is providing Steve with a ____ to help him remember. ​

Rose needs to remember how to get to a new friend's house. If she does not remember how to get there, what could have gone wrong with her memory system? Answer the question by describing the three basic memory processes.

When all three types of memory work together to read a passage of your text, ____. ​

Tanya and Brad are roommates who are both studying for a psychology midterm. Tanya is careful to read her textbook at an even pace, whereas Brad keeps stopping and rereading when there is something he doesn't quite grasp. Which statement is true about their recall?

To discourage his children from smoking, a father shows them the extremely graphic pictures of withered, blackened, and perforated lungs of a dead smoker. Afterwards, when confronted with peers offering cigarettes, the "lung pictures" come into the children's minds. This is an example of ____. ​

Alexander learns the names of all fifty states of the United States while he is in a very happy mood. Later, while he was in a sad mood, he can remember only twenty of the states. However, when Alexander was again happy, he can remember all fifty states. The principle that best explains this memory effect is ____. ​

After looking up a friend's new number in the phone book, Franklin discovers that the pay phone is being monopolized by someone. Assuming that Franklin is not rehearsing the number, what is the longest period of time that he can wait without forgetting the number entirely? ​

Corbin memorized a list of state capitals for his geography exam. Once he had done so, they became ____ memories. ​

Valerie is teaching Parker how to play the guitar. Valerie instructs Parker to sit across from her and watch her finger movements as she plays a song. She has found this method more effective than attempting to verbally explain the complicated series of finger movements. Valerie's teaching strategy indicates that her memory of how to play the guitar is stored as a(n)____ memory. ​

Jacques and Pierre are studying for their Spanish exam. Jacques is repeating vocabulary words over and over. Pierre is creating associations between vocabulary words and English words that sound similar. All else being equal, Pierre is more likely to do better on the Spanish exam because he is using ____ rehearsal and Jacques is using ____ rehearsal. ​

Toni has to remember her shopping list, which contains the following items: lemons, saw, beer, napkins, apples, lettuce, nails, cups, juice, newspaper, magazine, milk, and screwdriver. She decides to mentally place the items in categories: (1)lemons, apples, lettuce; (2)beer, juice, milk; (3)saw, nails, screwdriver; (4)newspaper, magazine; and (5)napkins, cups. Which method did Toni not use in this process? ​

According to the information-processing model of memory, if a person completely loses the ability for ____ memory, the person will not be able to form any memories of any kind. ​

Your friend Benjamin tells you that he's going to study for his upcoming exam by setting aside six hours one day to devote solely to the material. Having learned much from your psychology class, you explain to Benjamin that it's much more effective for him to utilize ____ to study because it will help him to spread out the material and learn it more deeply. ​

According to the transfer-appropriate processing model of memory, what would be the best retrieval cue for remembering the sentence "The man ate the strawberry"? ​

Caden can remember quite vividly the first time his dad took him out to learn how to ride a bike because he didn't use training wheels and took a nasty spill, scraping his knee badly.This would best be described as a(n)____ memory. ​

Information is retained in sensory memory for ____ seconds. ​

You are driving down the street when you see a billboard displaying a phone number for a service you need. You keep repeating the number so you won't forget it until you get home, where you can write it down. You do this to prevent the process of ____ from causing you to forget the number. ​