Exam 7: Attention and Memory

Mirta's boyfriend has five roommates.Last Saturday,she was at a party with her boyfriend and four of his roommates attended.A week later Mirta confidently tells a friend that all five of the roommates had been at the party.Mirta is experiencing:

One of the best ways to remember factual information is to relate it to something personal.In this way,you are taking advantage of your _____ memory to aid retrieval from your _____ memory.

In a classic science fiction novel,alien pods grow into exact duplicates of people.The people then die,and the duplicates take their places.The family members of the replaced people are sure that these people are not their relatives,but no one believes them.The family members feel exactly like people suffering from:

Javier convinces Suzanne to go with him to the sequel of a science fiction movie that he loved.Though Suzanne does not like science fiction,she agrees to go because Javier has been raving about the original movie for years.The sequel is terrible,but Javier sincerely praises it on the way home.Javier's response to the movie represents:

Even though Manuel has watched his psychology professor lecture three times a week for 10 weeks,he does not know what color her hair is.This lack of knowledge most likely represents a failure of:

Which of the following phenomena does memory bias NOT result from?

As a research participant,you read a list of names of unknown individuals.On another day,you read a list that includes some of those names,and you are asked if anyone on the list is famous.According to the _____,you will remember the individuals from the first list as famous.

On his way to get an afternoon snack,Jed walks by a billboard advertising hamburgers.He had intended to order an ice cream cone,but instead orders french fries.According to the spreading activation model,the hamburger made Jed want french fries because:

The encoding specificity principle states that:

Digitally editing a photograph on a computer is analogous to which memory process?

You are at a college basketball game and are watching the court carefully,but suddenly you are distracted by someone talking about an upcoming organic chemistry exam.This distraction is most likely due to the _____ of the discussion about the exam.

As a research participant,you study this list of words: curtain,book,anger,dirt,plant,hunger,paper,sadness,sunshine,music,disease,surprise,fired,love,test,pizza,electricity.When you are later asked to recall the list,which of the following words are you most likely to have trouble remembering?

If someone asks you who is running for president,you will answer from your _____ memory.If someone asks who you plan to vote for,you will answer from your _____ memory.

The phase of information processing that is most similar to a Google search is:

While you are at the movies,the person sitting next to you coughs so loudly that you cannot hear part of an actor's line.However,you believe that you have heard the entire sentence,including the part masked by the cough.Your perception is possible because of:

Charles suffered brain damage in a traumatic accident.As a result,he no longer recognizes his family members.Even when he is shown photos of himself with these individuals,he believes they have been created through trickery.Charles most likely suffers from _____,which is an extreme example of _____.

Research on memory consolidation reveals that memories:

People find it very easy to put on a button-down shirt but much harder to list the steps involved in putting on that shirt.This difference suggests that _____ memory is more useful in getting dressed than _____ memory.

Shushant makes up a rhyme to remember what she needs to buy at the grocery store,"Garrett said to buy milk and bread." Shushant is trying to remember her list by using:

According to Schacter,blocking is a type of _____,whereas misattribution is a type of_____.