Exam 10: Memory

Recalling when the low-lying area of your farm was flooded from a nearby river would be an episodic memory.

Suppose you are a participant in memory research. You are given a list of words to read, including the word "giraffe." Later, when given the word stem "gir--" you are most likely to complete the word as ________, due to the effect of ________.

Which of the following is NOT a way in which information is organized in long-term memory?

________ is an internal representation of the world independent of any particular context.

Which of the following is NOT a circumstance that contributes to confabulation?

When a witness expresses complete certainty about his or her report, the memory is almost always reliable.

Which of the following tests for recall?

It seems to Madison that she has always known that sea lions got their names because of their loud roars. But she was surprised on her vacation to hear baby sea lions bleat like little lambs. Madison's knowledge about the roar of sea lions is a/an ________ memory and her memory of the bleating is a/an ________ memory.

During short-term memory tasks, the ________ is especially active.

In his studies of memory, Sir Frederic Bartlett found that participants who were asked to remember stories were:

Ambassador McKenzie was about to ask a French diplomat to repeat his last comment, but then the ambassador was able to "select" what had been said and ignore all the extraneous sounds in the reception room. The ambassador's auditory subsystem of ________ enabled him to do this.

Long-term potentiation is thought to be the biological mechanism of long-term memory.

The narratives that we compose about our lives have a profound influence on our memories. Analyze how stories are used to provide themes to our lives.

When rabbits are conditioned to blink their eyes in response to a tone, changes in electrical activity occur in parts of the ________.

Theorists from the three-box model of memory suggest that:

One day after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center, 54 college students were asked questions about the experience and about a mundane event that occurred within the days prior to the attack. Later, the students were contacted and once again asked about their memory of the two events. What did this research reveal about flashbulb memories?

________ memory is to a photograph as ________ memory is to semantic meaning of the image.

In contrast to temporary changes associated with short-term memory, long-term memory involves lasting structural changes in the brain.

In Chapter 4 (The Brain: Source of Mind and Self), we learned that the cerebellum, which was once considered just a motor centre, also plays a part in higher cognitive tasks. Using the information from the rabbit eye blink study in Chapter 10 (Memory?), explain how the cerebellum plays a role in memory. What kind of memory seems to involve the cerebellum? Analyze the conditioning procedure (Chapter 7: Learning and Conditioning) that Richard Thompson used in order to test his hypothesis.

The brain circuits that take part in the formation of long-term memories are not the same as those involved in long-term storage.