Exam 9: Encoding

At the start of his 90-minute lecture on child development, Professor Mentyl shows his class a 10 minute home video of his own young children playing with their pet dog. When students later take an exam on this lecture, Professor Mentyl finds that the students didn't remember the details of the critical child development theories that were the focus of the above lecture. This effect has come to be known as

Kate is forced to cram all of her studying for her calculus final exam into one 8-hour session the night before the test. In order for Kate to have the best chance of doing well on the exam, when should her exam begin during the day following her all-nighter?

Which of the following is not true about schemas?

Non-Contrast reinforcement can have the same effect on people who are committed to improve their memory as it does on learning tasks.

John is studying for his psychology exam on 4 successive nights, and each night he studies in a different location, at a different time of day, and comes up with different examples of the theories he is trying to learn. This is illustrative of which explanation of the spacing effect?

The serial position effect is most likely to be obtained when using:

Dual-Code theory suggests that pictures can be recalled better than words because:

Tim is told that his ability to retrieve the correct answers on his history exam will gain him monetary rewards. Specifically, correct multiple-choice answers will earn him 25 cents per answer, while correct short-answer questions will gain him 75 cents per answer. Research on contrast effects suggests that Tim:

The reinforcements described in question 9.37 are illustrative of:

At the beginning of yesterday's sociology class, Dr. Smith showed highly graphic pictures of naked men and women to illustrate the different forms that pornography can take. After this 5-minute slide show, Dr. Smith gave a 45-minute lecture of pornography and modern society. However, immediately after the class ended, the students had no memory of the lecture--all they could recall were the sexually explicit photographs shown at the start of class. This impaired memory is illustrative of:

Joe remembers the name of his new college professor making an association between the professor's name and her face. This type of processing is consistent with:

Which group of individuals is likely to demonstrate the best levels of metamemory?

Emotional events are highly recallable because:

Maintenance rehearsal can be good for memory because:

Which of the following is not an explanation for the spacing effect?

Which of the following has the best chance of being recalled?

Of all of the lectures in his Introductory Economics class, Tom remembers the class about global economics best because the teacher wore all of his clothes backwards and inside-out. The teachers was seemingly trying to encourage:

Implicit memory involves recalling information in the absence of a conscious attempt at retrieval. This process can be said to be similar to incidental learning because they both:

Depth of processing_________explicit memory and_________implicit memory.

The field of neuroethics suggests that enhancing memory ability, via the use of medications, is unethical.