Exam 7: Attention and Memory

This type of amnesia results in a loss of past memories:

Trey's girlfriend wants to bake a birthday cake and Trey is buying the ingredients.His girlfriend told him to buy flour,sugar,baking powder,eggs,chocolate,baking soda,and vanilla.Trey also buys frosting because he is sure it was on the list.This type of misremembering is an example of:

The police have put an Asian American suspect in a lineup of Asian Americans.The identification is most likely to be accurate if the eyewitness is:

Samantha has just broken up with her boyfriend and is feeling very sad.She resolves to change her mood by thinking about happy things,but finds that she just keeps remembering other sad things.Samantha's experience can best be explained in terms of:

As a participant in a memory experiment,Shamithia has been given a list of words: candy,sugar,tart,pie,and honey.When she is later asked to recall the words on this list,Shamithia incorrectly recalls one of the words.Which of the following words is she most likely to FALSELY recall?

In Treisman's model of visual attention,primitive features can be analyzed in parallel because:

Memory is stored in which area of the brain?

When you are studying for an exam,the part of the brain that is responsible for coordinating and strengthening the connections among neurons is the:

Laken takes a course in which her professor talks about Virginia Woolf's novel,To the Lighthouse.The next semester,Laken writes a paper for another class on Virginia Woolf.In her paper,Laken uses ideas that her earlier professor had presented,while believing that she has developed these ideas herself.Laken's behavior comes from:

Roel watches a spoof of the news on The Daily Show.The next week,he describes the event in the spoof as having really happened.Roel's false belief that the news story was true is an example of:

Kumar is trying to remember who ran against John F.Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election. Kumar's search for information to answer this question is being carried out in his:

Broadbent's filter theory of attention assumed that selective attention was necessary because people have limited _____ capacity and thus must focus on the most _____ information.

What are the three steps in memory information processing?

If a retrieval cue is present in the environment,then a(n)_____ process is used to recall a prospective memory.If a retrieval cue is not present,then a(n)_____ process is used to recall the prospective memory.

According to associative network theories,concepts in memory are localized in:

Why do people sometimes fail to remember an uncommon word,but have a feeling that it is on the "tip-of-the-tongue"?

Amnesia is caused by all of the following EXCEPT:

When you recall a memory of your best friend's face,you are activating the cortical circuits in the _____ cortex involved in _____ her face.

When you hear a story about a person you know,you will _____,which may lead to _____.

You start to answer an exam question.Even though you know the word for the answer,you cannot remember it.You can remember the shape of the word,the first letter,where on the page of your notes the word is,but not the word itself.You are suffering from: