Exam 7: Attention and Memory

Animation works by presenting still pictures rapidly enough that they merge in iconic memory.How much time can elapse between each successive picture if animation is to work?

Alejandro is lost in the woods and thinks he hears a bear.He climbs a tree to see if he can find a way home.A week later,he tells his friend with absolute sincerity that he climbed the tree to escape the bear.Alejandro is experiencing:

The tendency to make memories consistent with current beliefs or attitudes is referred to as:

The best argument that long-term memory and short-term memory are separate entities is that:

Akila's brother asks her if she knows the names of the capitals of Texas and Montana.She instantly knows that the capital of Texas is Austin,and she does not know the capital of Montana.Akila is using her _____ memory to retrieve _____ memories.

Srimoyee and Richa,who are college seniors,are reminiscing about their high school prom.Srimoyee enjoyed the prom,but it was not particularly important to her.For Richa,the prom was a very significant event.That was the night her boyfriend told her that he was going to break up with her because he had been secretly involved with Richa's best friend for quite a while.You would expect that Srimoyee would have trouble _____ the prom and Richa would have trouble _____ the prom.

Patient H.M.suffered from seizures and had part of his medial temporal lobes removed.As a result,he could no longer:

Ivaylo goes skiing after many years away from the sport.What kind of memory makes it possible for him to get back on the slopes without taking new skiing lessons?

Eyewitness testimony is very convincing because people incorrectly assume that memory is like:

Understanding how to serve a ball in tennis involves _____ memory,but actually serving the ball involves _____ memory.

After Itohan was in a serious car accident she could remember everything that had happened to her before the accident,but she could not form new memories.Itohan most likely has _____ amnesia.

The information processing model of memory is based on computer functioning and consists of all of the following stages EXCEPT:

You see all of a written word simultaneously,but you hear a spoken word over time.The memory that accumulates the sound of a word until it is formed as a unit is:

A lie and a false memory are:

A children's flipbook consists of a series of pictures of Mickey Mouse with his feet in slightly different positions.If you look at the pages one at a time,slowly,all you see are the individual pictures of Mickey.However,if you flip the pages quickly,you see Mickey running.This illusion is due to storage of the successive pictures in:

In a serial position curve,words that are not part of either the primacy effect or the recency effect are:

You are reading a book,and your friend John asks you a question.By the time you ask,"What did you say?" you hear his question.This effect is due to storage of information in the _____ for audition.

Change blindness seems _____ because it makes us_____ information.

The difference between absentmindedness and blocking is that in absentmindedness the information is:

Professor Smith is doing research on fish.He refuses to learn his students' names because he believes that the names take up space in his long-term memory,which could be better used for fish information.He is incorrect because: