Exam 9: The Knowing Mind: Memory

Your text discusses recovered memories of childhood abuse. In the absence of proof, the authors recommend ____.

Dinesh takes a quick call from his wife and then returns to a conversation with his coworker. His wife asked him to pick up six items at the grocery store on his way home from work, and while walking to his car, he realizes that he can remember only the first three items. This illustrates the ____.

Michael has a flashbulb memory of when his mother told him the terrible news that his father had died in an automobile accident. What is most likely to be true about this memory?

The component of working memory that is responsible for verbal and auditory information is the _____.

The "magic number 7 plus or minus 2" refers to the ____.

A flashbulb memory is ____.

Mary is visiting the beach close to her childhood home. Which of the following best describes her memories of childhood summers?

What is the correct ordering of the processes of memory?

Manuel is teaching his 3-year-old son Joey the alphabet song. Joey sings "A B C D H K G." This is an example of ____.

Sheldon goes to the grocery store to buy a few items, and when he gets there he can remember only the last few things that he wanted to buy. "I knew I should have written everything down," he says to himself. Sheldon has illustrated the _____ effect.

A classic method of measuring the retention of material in long-term memory over time is to ____.

Long-term potentiation shares many features with memory, such as being ____.

Mr. Langley's former high school Latin students are holding a 25-year reunion. He surprises them with a vocabulary game show quiz. His students most likely ____.

Martin has a very stunning memory of virtually everything that has happened to him since he was 4 years of age. He remembers the weather on his 6th birthday, the baseball card he got when he was 11 years old, and the color of the eyes of the girl who sat next to him in his sixth grade classroom. Martin remembers all of these details despite the fact that he is 53 years of age. Martin has a condition called ______.

Out of all cases in which an innocent person has been cleared of a crime due to DNA evidence, how many involved mistaken identification of the perpetrator by an eyewitness?

Henry must study for three finals and write a term paper in six days. He has decided to devote 15 hours of preparation time to his History of Modern China exam. What would be the best allocation of his time?

Scientists have discovered correlations between activity in parts of the human brain and specific components of long-term memory through the observation of ____.

Ella is a participant in a study using the lexical decision task technique. To which pair of real or non-real words would she likely have the fastest response time?

Matt remembers visiting Disney World and SeaWorld in Florida with his family when he was 8 years old. This is an example of a(n)____.

Benicio is studying for his Sensation and Perception exam by explaining terms and concepts to his friend Catherine in his own words and by providing self-referential examples. This is called ____.