Exam 5: Memory

Jacques and Pierre are studying for their Spanish exam.Jacques is repeating vocabulary words over and over.Pierre is creating associations between vocabulary words and English words that sound similar.All else being equal,Pierre is more likely to do better on the Spanish exam because he is using ____ rehearsal and Jacques is using ____ rehearsal.

You decide that instead of writing down your grocery list,you want to try out one of the mnemonic strategies you read about in your textbook.To that end,you try to associate each item on the list with a different room in your house.Which mnemonic strategy are you using?

Research on false memories has found that ____.

The concept of selective attention is best demonstrated in which example?

Last week,Darrel memorized a poem.Now his roommate tells him that he has memorized one word incorrectly.However,Darrel has memorized the incorrect version so well that he has difficulty learning and remembering the correct word.This best illustrates ____.

During a psychology lecture,your instructor uses the word college as a metaphor for social life.When he says the word college,lots of information comes to mind: dorm rooms,students,tests,professors,textbooks,pencils,and sporting events.The word has activated a ____.

To discourage his children from smoking,a father shows them the extremely graphic pictures of withered,blackened,and perforated lungs of a dead smoker.Afterwards,when confronted with peers offering cigarettes,the "lung pictures" come into the children's minds.This is an example of ____.

Valerie is teaching Parker how to play the guitar.Valerie instructs Parker to sit across from her and watch her finger movements as she plays a song.She has found this method more effective than attempting to verbally explain the complicated series of finger movements.Valerie's teaching strategy indicates that her memory of how to play the guitar is stored as a(n)____ memory.

Seven-year-old Ben is riding his bike to the park to meet some friends.He stops at a stop sign and signals his intention to turn left into the park.Ben's memory of the laws of the road is an example of ____ memory,whereas his ability to ride the bike shows ____ memory.

Rose needs to remember how to get to a new friend's house.If she does not remember how to get there,what could have gone wrong with her memory system? Answer the question by describing the three basic memory processes.

Raquelle is in an accident that has damaged her brain,and lost her memory for all events occurring after her accident.Raquelle's accident has resulted in ____amnesia.

Recount an experience that involves episodic,semantic,and procedural memories.Be sure to explain how your experience exemplifies all three types of memory.

Corbin memorized a list of state capitals for his geography exam.Once he had done so,they became ____ memories.

Perry is the lead singer for a jazz group called John's Prediction,for which he has learned several jazz songs.After a couple of years,he decides to join a blues group called Petrol for Pinholes,and he learns a number of blues songs.On stage one night,he tries to remember a jazz song from John's Prediction and hasdifficulty in doing so.Perry is showing evidence of ____.

Your friend Benjamin tells you that he's going to study for his upcoming exam by setting aside six hours one day to devote solely to the material.Having learned much from your psychology class,you explain to Benjamin that it's much more effective for him to utilize ____ to study because it will help him to spread out the material and learn it more deeply.

When Keith took piano lessons as a child,it took him three weeks to learn to play the "Moonlight Sonata." As an adult,when he decides to relearn the piece to accompany his daughter's performance at a dance recital,it takes him only one week.The difference in Keith's learning time is called ____.

In one study,students study nonsense syllables.Some of these students then carry on with normal waking activities and others take a nap.Those who take a nap recall more syllables,thus illustrating the effect ____ has on learning.

In a freak accident,Neeley damages her frontal cortex and is unable to remember anything that took place months before the accident.Neeley is suffering from ____.

When all three types of memory work together to read a passage of your text,____.

Stuart is trying to remember the word car.If he makes a mistake in recalling the word within fifteen seconds of hearing it,which word will he be most likely to mistakenly recall instead?