Exam 12: Remembering and Forgetting

Based on the study of memory of high school classmates,what happens to the accuracy rate for recognition over 47 years?

Reminders we create in making associations between previously learned information and newly learned information are called:

On your way to school every morning,you observe a dog that always walks on the busy street,seemingly without fear or concern.Today,after learning about the biological bases of memory,you offer an explanation for the dog's carefree behavior:

Todd runs into Sarah,his former girlfriend.Oh no! He can't remember her name and calls her Robin,the name of his current girlfriend.What type of interference did Todd just experience?

Describe the network theory of memory.How is a map a good illustration of the theory?

Out of 289 people who were wrongly convicted of rape or murder,how many of them were due to mistaken eyewitness testimony?

Recognition involves:

You and a friend are sitting in the dorm watching a televised trial.A witness currently on the stand repeats several times that he saw the defendant leaving the murder scene and that he is sure.Your friend comments,"Well,that about does it.If he says the defendant did it and is confident about it,then that's it!" What do you say?

Ebbinghaus found that the forgetting curve for nonsense syllables was rapid at first.

Which piece of information would be at the top of a network hierarchy?

Based upon forgetting curves,our memory for ____ information is much better than our memory for ____ information:

Repression occurs when we act in a way consistent with an earlier developmental stage.

You are reading a case study of a patient with damage to the amygdala caused by a virus.Given your knowledge of memory and the brain,you're not surprised to find out later in the case that the memories of the individual have:

Lena has started to watch a video at Tina's house.Lena says that she saw the movie last month.She tries to anticipate the next scene or what a character will say,but she is wrong and says,"Maybe I'm getting this movie confused with another movie I saw last year." Lena is most likely experiencing:

It is easier to remember information if you are in the same emotional state as when you originally encoded that information.

Wow! The lecture in psychology last week was very interesting.But you wonder how much of it you'll remember in seven years.The research says that we forget about ____ of interesting information.

Our short-term memory abilities are a function of activity in the:

How would the network theory of memory explain the time that you thought of baseball,and in a few seconds you ended up thinking about toothpaste?

Mary uses numerous different colors when she takes notes in her psychology class.If she has difficulty with a question on an exam,she finds it helpful to remember the color of the notes relevant to the question.For Mary,the color of the notes acts as a(n):

LTP changes the structure and function of neurons.