Exam 5: Memory

Homer is trying to remember the different functions of the control panel at the nuclear power plant where he works.He remembers the functions of the different buttons by thinking about the types of donuts that the buttons most resemble.For example,he is supposed to press a red button to shut off the reactors when they are about to have a meltdown.He remembers this because the red button reminds him of cherry donuts,which he eats only during hot weather.The type of processing that Homer is using is ____ rehearsal.

You watch a demonstration taking place on campus.You are excited and when you get home,you tell your roommate Alberta about what you saw.Another roommate,Lucy,returns later and you overhear her excitedly telling Alberta about the same demonstration,but her description doesn't sound anything like what you saw.What most likely accounts for this difference?

Remembering a list of twenty-eight ingredients that you need to cook a special meal can be done without writing them all down.One way to accomplish this would be to chunk the ingredients into four categories of seven meaningfully related items.This process of chunking requires the operation of ____.

Using the acronym OCEAN (Openness,Conscientiousness,Extroversion,Agreeableness,and Neuroticism)to remember the factors of the five factor model of personality is an example of ____.

Whenever House and Wilson argue,they bring up past issues.When they are getting along well,they have a hard time remembering what they argued about.What might produce this difference in the retrieval of memories?

Many death row inmates are convicted on the basis of eyewitness testimony.Which statementbest represents what is known about this kind of testimony?

While studying diligently for his midterm,Raoul consumes massive quantities of sugar by drinking Rush cola and eating Grandma's cookies.The day of the midterm examination,Raoul is careful to eat nutritious,low-sugar foods and drink lots of milk and water.During the exam,Raoul has trouble recalling what he has studied.This can best be explained by ____.

When an eyewitness to a robbery tries to identify the criminal from a lineup of suspects,he or she is engaging in which memory retrieval process?

You used to dial the phone number to the Tribune's Sport Score Hot Line every day,but for the last six months,you have called the Sun-Times's Sports Line.Now you can't remember the Tribune's number.This is probably due to ____ inhibition.

Kari is studying French vocabulary words.If Kari forgets this material,the largest part of her forgetting will occur within ____of learning the material.

Jammin' Jamie,a disc jockey for a local radio station,plays requests that listeners phone in between 11 a.m.and noon.There are lots of requests,and Jamie usually forgets all but the last few.This pattern is an example of the ____ effect.

Polina participates in a short-term memory experiment.The experimenter reads aloud a list of twenty objects,and Polina has to mentally rate how effective each object would be if she was stranded on a deserted island.The experimenter then asks her to count backwards by threes from one hundred.This task,known as ____,ensures that Polina does not rehearse the information to keep it in her short-term memory.

Cicero,an imperial Roman orator,endorses a mnemonic strategy called the method of loci more than 2,000 years ago; the technique is still one of the most powerful known today.The method of loci involves ____.

Oliver was in an auto accident and now has difficulty remembering anything new.He can remember everything prior to his accident,but nothing since it.His doctors suspect that his ____ has been damaged.

Xandra is learning rapidly and storing new memories all the time.For her brain to store these memories,her neurons will have to ____.

Suppose you overhear a juicy rumor one night when you are drunk at a bar but cannot recall it the next day when you are sober.This illustrates ____.

Your friend tells you that she just bought a cat.You naturally assume that your friend means that she bought a housecat rather than a lion or a tiger.This is an illustration of ____.

Elka can remember the phone number she just looked up only by repeating it over and over.When she stops saying it out loud,she forgets it.Elka is using ____ rehearsal to keep the information in ____ memory.

According to the information-processing model of memory,if a person completely loses the ability for ____ memory,the person will not be able to form any memories of any kind.

You are driving down the street when you see a billboard displaying a phone number for a service you need.You keep repeating the number so you won't forget it until you get home,where you can write it down.You do this to prevent the process of ____ from causing you to forget the number.