Exam 12: Remembering and Forgetting

A friend asks you to describe a horror movie you recently saw.As you tell her about the movie,you remember the face of one of the characters as he confronts the monster.Which part of your brain is especially active as you experience the emotional dimension of your memory?

When we repeat a phone number,____ are activated that recognize and hold the phone number in short-term memory.

A witness of a bank robbery is asked if she remembers the bank manager wearing a tie.If she is influenced by the question,it is likely the witness will:

The two primary reasons why our memory is limited in early life are:

You hear about a woman who was receiving therapy and found out that she had repressed memories of being sexually abused 20 years ago.Given the information in this module,what would be the most important question about her case?

High school seniors Meera and Karen are talking about memories.Meera says that she can remember a song she learned when she was a year old.Karen disagrees and says that's not likely.Why?

What form of memory retrieval are you using when answering this multiple-choice question?

A ____ measures the amount of previously learned information that subjects can recall or recognize across time.

In order to study memory and forgetting,Hermann Ebbinghaus utilized:

The tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon most often occurs with procedural memories.

We tend to experience the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon when trying to name:

Which of the following questions is answered by searching groups of nodes that are linked by personal associations?

An outcome of using the cognitive interview technique is that an eyewitness is:

Researchers believe that permanently storing information in long-term memory involves chemical,functional,and ____ changes.

Before the accident,Clive enjoyed singing and playing the piano.Because of the brain damage,he cannot learn new songs.Why would he remember old songs,but fail to learn new ones?

A network is made up of:

Propranolol may be a promising drug to treat people with painful traumatic memories.What accounts for the drug's promise?

What is the mnemonic called that uses associations between number-word rhymes and the items to be memorized?

You are creating a website to describe interference.What would be the most appropriate website name?

A new science fiction book you're reading describes an evil country wanting to take over the rest of the world by preventing their enemies from forming new long-term memories.How would you do it?