Exam 10: Memory

The ________ is involved in the formation of procedural memories.

Which is NOT one of the explanations proposed by cognitive psychologists to explain childhood amnesia?

When Sven's parents overhear him describing a birthday party from earlier in his life, they look at each other in surprise. In the middle of Sven's recollection of his own party were details of one of his father's childhood parties! Sven's memory illustrates the concept of:

When patients, such as H.M., are unable to form new declarative memories, they still can acquire new procedural memories, although they do not remember the training session in which they learned these skills.

Which of the following explanations of childhood amnesia would NOT be used by a cognitive psychologist?

When a word is on the "tip-of-the-tongue," what errors are likely until the target word is recalled?

The question that you are reading at this moment is a ________ question.

The tendency for recall of the first and last items on a list, to surpass recall of items in the middle of the list, is called the serial-position effect.

Chad remembers the feeling of excitement in his house when his mother stepped through the door with his new baby sister. He can still picture the tiny little baby with a stocking cap on her head! His parents can't convince him that he actually stayed with his grandparents for two weeks after his sister was born and that his memory never happened! Chad's memory is an example of:

Match the following definitions with the correct terms. -A method for measuring implicit memory in which a person reads or listens to information and is later tested to see whether the information affects performance on the same or another type of task.

Which of the following is NOT a procedural memory?

Our discussion of memory began with the case of Thomas Sophonow, convicted of the murder of Barbara Stoppel on the strength of eyewitness testimony. This eyewitness testimony illustrated that:

Source misattribution occurs when a person experiences the partial loss of memory for threatening information and no organic source of the problem can be found.

Your long-term memory holds a vast amount of information, including items of information about animals. Describe one of your semantic memories about animals and one of your episodic memories about them. Make sure you label which is which!

Vivid recollections of emotional events are called flashbulb memories.

Which of the following types of information will NOT enter long-term memory easily?

Sensory memory has a limited capacity.

In thinking about real-life problems, a person must be able to use dialectical reasoning, as explained in Chapter 9 (Thinking and Intelligence). Use dialectical reasoning to consider the controversial topic of eyewitness testimony presented in Chapter 9 (Memory?). Should the testimony of preschoolers be trusted in situations involving child abuse?

The relearning method, devised by Hermann Ebbinghaus over a century ago, assesses whether or not you learn material more quickly the second time you learn it.

Sensory memory is made up of many separate subsystems, one for each sense.