Exam 1: Introduction to the Study of Memory

Neuroimaging uses a set of techniques to observe the brain and assign functions.What is the function of this type of operation called?

Choose the term that best describes avoidance to effects of meaning on memory.

Which of the following statements about neuroimaging is false?

Explain the difference between Classical and Operant Conditioning.

Nonsense syllables avoid the effects of meaning on memory.

Describe the importance of Endel Tulving's work.

When identification is required of a target memory from a set of presented items, it is called:

What term best describes a graph that traces the decline of memory?

What type of operation indicates study spread out over time?

The goal of memory science is to make generalizations of how memory works in reality than studying it carefully in a controlled lab.

Cognitive Neuroscience is the study of the brain in:

Factors that are manipulated across different conditions are called:

In the above experiment, what does the food represent?

Reality monitoring is our specific ability to do this concerning memory as reality or imagined.

Judgments of learning are called this as we study items and whether or not we will remember them.

An independent variable can only be measured by the relationship between itself and what other variable?

What kind of a coil does TMS use to stimulate particular areas of the brain?

Define the term for study occurring in one block of time.

If more learning occurs when study trials on the same information are spread out over time than when they occur successively, it is attributed to:

What type of mental structure is common across many different types of animals?