Exam 6: Memory

During a conversation with an old friend, you happen to mention watching the television show "Saved by the Bell" as a child. Recalling this show leads you to remember several other television shows from your youth, although you had not thought of those shows for a very long time. This is an example of

When people forget, we are NOT talking about the _____ of information.

A node is:

The shape of the forgetting curve is very similar to the curve of:

In a study involving the Bahrick family trying to learn 300 foreign language vocabulary words, the best way to learn the information was found to be:

I hear colleagues of mine talk about working memory. I have no idea what they are talking about. I think they are simply referring to short-term memory. Is working memory the same thing as short-term memory?

I am trying to remember what day next week I have an appointment with my dentist. I am using:

The idea that forgetting occurs because of the intrusion of similar memories on each other is referred to as:

Which is NOT true of flashbulb memories?

The person associated with the empirical investigation of forgetting and who discovered the forgetting curve is:

On a particular dreary weekend day, I am sitting at home watching a sappy love movie. Following the movie, I try to remember all the people in my past that I truly loved. This would be an example of:

Which is NOT a theory of forgetting?

Which of the following is not a reason listed in your textbook for why people forget?

Cahill et al. (1974) attempted to determine the relationship between the nervous system and emotional memory. Two groups were shown slides of a boy leaving school. One group had an unemotional storyline while the other group was told that the boy was in an accident and had his legs severed. Which drug did Cahill and colleagues find to be important in emotional memory?

Which of the following is true of long term memory?

In what way(s) is/are memory in the laboratory different from memory in daily life?

I can't remember the name of a student so I look at it on the class roster. As soon as I see it, I remember it. This is an example of:

The _____ plays a significant role in the recollection of emotionally charged events, such as the feeling that accompanies knowing that a sound is associated with a shock.

You are driving down a country road and see all sorts of objects (e.g., cows, horses, tractors, and houses). You incorrectly state that you saw a red barn. The belief that you saw something that you did not actually see supports the notion that schemas:

It has been argued that there exist different ways of processing information during memory storage. It has further been argued that there are three different depths or levels of processing. Identify and describe each of the three levels. Is any level better than the other? Does the way information is encoded affect how it is retrieved?