Exam 12: Remembering and Forgetting

You are listening to a radio talk show hosted by a psychologist.One of her callers asks why memories are so hard to retrieve.The psychologist responds,"After memories are encoded,they are connected in nodes in long-term memory.To find a particular memory,you must sift through all the nodes until you find the one you want." This psychologist is describing the ____ of memory.

A man was convicted of involuntary murder of an elderly woman.The incident took place while the two were arguing,and the woman suffered a heart attack and died.The man is very remorseful,but cannot remember anything about the argument.This type of forgetting best illustrates:

This semester you are taking psychology and doing well; last semester you took sociology and did well.However,you don't remember much about sociology because of:

Much of the controversy surrounding repression involves:

Steven has a damaged hippocampus.What is he most likely to successfully learn and remember?

The Mall of America labels their parking lots with the names of states.Why?

Your memories of past experiences are not influenced by your current beliefs.

What does LTP do?

You are reading the case of an individual whose hippocampus was damaged.As you are reading the case,you are correctly anticipating that this person will have difficulty with:

Harry can't remember anything that happened after he was taken prisoner and tortured during the war.Harry is suffering from:

The method of loci creates associations between number-word rhymes.

Plotnik and Kouyoumdjian begin this module with a scene from a campus mugging.Their point is to show that:

Explain the effect that long-term potentiation has on the nervous system and on memories.

People with damage to the hippocampus:

We can create retrieval cues by making associations with what we are learning and what we already know.

If you take a survey on your past political views,your responses are likely to reflect your:

The network theory proposes that we are capable of "traveling" from node to node because:

A person memorizing a set of number-word rhymes on which other ideas to be memorized can be hung would be using which mnemonic device?

The more bizarre the association,the better our memory will be.

A technique for creating visual associations between memorized places and items to be memorized is called: