Exam 7: Attention and Memory

Your father has not ridden a bicycle since he was in college,about 20 years ago.Your father's remembering how to ride the bike without falling will call upon _____ memory.His remembering the names of the parts of the bike will call upon _____ memory.

People have better memories for events that involve negative emotions.According to an evolutionary perspective,this phenomenon suggests that negative emotions:

According to levels of processing theory,information that is encoded more deeply is remembered better than information that is encoded less deeply,because information encoded more deeply:

Geoff is trying to remember his shopping list by repeating the items over and over again to himself.He is using:

How does prospective memory limit the cognitive resources available for other tasks?

Even though he has already memorized his notes,Hao reviews them every night for the two weeks before the exam.This strategy is likely to _____ his performance due to _____.

If you try to remember a list of words that relate to the idea of "sleep" and later report remembering that you heard the word sleep in the list (even though it was not there),you are suffering from a(n):

A likely way in which suggestibility might cause new information to change an old memory is through:

If the Wicked Witch of the East flew down and struck you with retrograde amnesia,you would be _____ to form new memories and _____ to remember events before the witch.

Jurors are listening to an eyewitness describe a murder.Research on eyewitness testimony suggests that the jurors will be:

Suzanne goes into therapy because she is continually anxious and has trouble sleeping due to disturbing nightmares.Her therapist diagnoses Suzanne with posttraumatic stress disorder and encourages her to talk about distressing childhood memories.Eventually,Suzanne recalls having been abused by her uncle as a child.The problem that this recovered memory poses is that:

If you are recalling an episode that never really happened,you are experiencing:

Changes in the strength of neural connections and construction of new synapses is the process of:

When people look at faces of people of their own race there is more activation of the _____ than when they look at faces of people of other races.

Hsiao-An is in a serious accident that damages areas of her frontal lobes and limbic system.When her husband comes to see her at the hospital,she maintains that he is not her husband,only someone pretending to be her husband.The accident has left Hsiao-An with:

You witness an accident and see one of the cars driving away from the scene.Even though you have just seen the license plate,you cannot remember the number.The license plate was probably NOT initially:

Which of the following actions is an example of prospective memory?

When you read,your eyes fixate for a fraction of a second,and then jump to a new point in the text.Your reading experience is continuous because during the jump,the information from the last eye fixation is held in:

Which of the following is NOT one of the seven sins of memory?

Remembering that he needed to pick up milk on the way home from work,Jon is using his _____ memory system.