Exam 7: Attention and Memory

People who were close to the location of the World Trade Center during the 9/11 terrorist attacks are very likely to show increased physiological responses to:

The inability to retrieve information from long-term memory is:

Yolanda has a brain tumor.After the tumor grew to a certain size,she could no longer form new memories.Yolanda most likely has _____ amnesia.

Jaimie has a very vivid memory of her first birthday party.She remembers that she wore a frilly pink dress,had a cake shaped like a pony,and received a big white teddy bear as a gift.Jaimie's detailed memory is probably due to:

Children with attention deficit disorder are distracted by everything in the environment rather than being able to choose what they want to focus on.These children are lacking in:

Sleep disturbances disrupt memory because of:

Sam has to buy his girlfriend something for her birthday.One of the main reasons that Sam could forget to do this is _____ due to _____.

When remembering words on a list,people tend to remember words at the beginning of the list and words at the end of the list better than words in the middle of the list.This phenomenon is known as:

Who is LEAST likely to show change blindness?

Capgras syndrome is an extreme case of:

Inattention and shallow encoding can often result in _____,which leads to forgetting.

An older view of human memory argued that all memories were essentially of the same type.Newer views disagree,arguing that memories involve different:

Aaron took calculus as a freshman in high school,but he is now taking it again as a college senior to fulfill requirements for his major.Based on your knowledge of memory,you could predict that the material would take _____ in his college class as it did in his high school class.

In the context of memory,persistence is:

Alex sees a girl stealing a candy bar in a convenience store.When the police question him,Alex says the thief was wearing a red shirt.Later in the interrogation,the officer asks what candy the girl in the blue shirt stole.Months later,when Alex testifies in court,he describes the girl as having worn a blue shirt.Alex's testimony at the trial shows the influence of:

When a person incorrectly remembers the time,place,person,or circumstances involved in a memory,he or she is experiencing:

Attitude formation falls under which memory category?

Consider a psychology experiment where someone is asked to say,as rapidly as possible,whether a sentence appearing on a computer screen is true or false.Research has shown that people will be faster to say that it is true that a sandal is a shoe than to say that it is true that a sandal is a piece of clothing.Which model of human memory could easily account for this finding?

Why is memory not a perfect record of everything we see and experience?

Processing multiple types of information at the same time is referred to as: