Exam 6: Learning and Remembering

Endel Tulving presented people with a long list of unrelated words several different times. Each time the list was presented, the order of the items was rearranged. After each list presentation Tulving had the participants free-recall as many of the words on the list as possible. When he analyzed the order in which the words were recalled, he discovered that the subjects had developed their own grouping of the words. This consistency illustrates:

Words that denote concrete objects, as opposed to abstract words, can be encoded into memory twice, once in terms of their verbal attributes and once in terms of their image-based properties.

A person's autobiographical memory, memory for personally experienced events:

After being shown a picture of a girl with a bat, you are asked "Was it a BOY or a GIRL?" You are then asked "Did you see a BAT?". This type of memory test would best be defined as:

Multimodal effects on learning:

"Law of disuse" reflects:

Primacy effects are associated with:

Describe two pieces of evidence that support the existence of a meaningful distinction between implicit and explicit memory.

Recognition failure of recallable words:

The hypothesis that the specific nature of an item's encoding, including all related information that was encoded along with it, determines how effectively the item can be retrieved:

At a party, Joan was introduced to Steve just as she arrived. Joan then went off to speak with a different group and was introduced to each of them as well. After hearing the new names, Joan could not remember Steve's name. This description illustrates ________.

Type I rehearsal does not usually lead to more meaningful levels of storage.

Double dissociation refers to:

Levels of processing is associated with Ebbinghaus.

Momentarily unable to recall some shred of information, for example, the title of a song, with the sense of being on the verge of remembering:

According to traditional PI, if you learn A-B, then learn A-C, and are then tested on A-C, the following effect will be seen:

In recall tasks, people often cluster related words together.

Patient KC shows a pattern of:

________ refers to an experience in which a person tries to remember something that is known to be stored in memory, but that the person cannot quite retrieve.

H.M. is an anterograde amnesic. Discuss how he performs on a novel motor task such as mirror-tracing a star pattern. How does his performance change across several days of practice? What does he report?