Exam 7: Memory

Bart remembers the release date of his favorite movie director's upcoming project.Which of the following forms of memory would have helped Bart?

I was a second-semester freshman.I was eating fries in the college cafeteria when my friend Liz came up.She was wearing that plaid coat with her yellow skirt,along with that moss-green embroidered bag,the one with a Grecian urn embroidered on it.She told me the shuttle blew up.This is my memory of the 1986 Challenger disaster.

You examine the schedule for your favorite soccer team.The team plays 16 games each season.Later,you try recalling that schedule for a friend who likes the same team you do.Chances are,you will recall opponents at the beginning of the schedule particularly well.This is an example of the _____ effect.

Which of the following is the best reason that we have trouble remembering the license plate number of a car that we just passed 10 minutes ago?

Distinguish between the decay,interference,and cue-dependent theories of forgetting.Provide an example of each.

One's culture is most likely to influence:

Owen has trouble remembering a friend's new phone number; he keeps recalling the old number instead.Completing a rental application,Pippa finds she can't recall one of her previous addresses as she's had several addresses since.Owen is experiencing _____ interference; Pippa is experiencing _____.

Mental arithmetic entails the activity of both the visual and the verbal stores in working memory; the coordinates the operation of these two subsystems.

Which of the following statements is TRUE of working memory?

In the late 1950s and early 1960s,psychologist George Sperling conducted key studies of:

A is a stimulus that allows us to recall more easily information that is in long-term memory.

The unconscious process whereby disturbing memories are prevented from entering awareness is called:

Distinguish between explicit and implicit memory.How is implicit memory studied in the laboratory? How does implicit memory research inform the continuing debate in psychology regarding the unconscious determinants of behavior? In your answer,make explicit reference to behaviors that may have important personal and social consequences.

Dr.Peter Ziemer is seeing a new patient,Mrs.Aaronson.She is experiencing memory losses.Dr.Ziemer tests her language and problem-solving abilities.He also asks her if she has a history of alcohol abuse.What might the language and problem-solving tests tell Dr.Ziemer? What would the answer to the alcohol-abuse question tell him?

Jerry is at a party.He is introduced to three different people in the span of a moment.Later,he is approached by the first person he met and cannot remember her name.Which of the following is most likely the source of Jerry's difficulty?

On your computer desktop,you can see all sorts of different files.Each file is immediately accessible because you are actively working on them,and you can open them whenever you want.These files are in fact very similar to the kind of information held in:

Implicit memory is often studied through experiments that use .

Middle-aged Mrs.Lovett is recalling her first Christmas as a young newlywed at her in-laws' Wyoming ranch.This is a(n)_____ memory.

Discuss retrieval cues,recognition vs.recall,and levels of processing.

Pierre has been an alcoholic for several decades.Now in his 50s,his intellectual abilities are intact,but he suffers from memory deficits and hallucinations.Based on this information,you suspect that Pierre may be afflicted with: