Exam 10: Memory

The superiority of recognition over recall was demonstrated when participants, aged 17 to 74, were asked to recall and recognize the names of their high school classmates. Briefly describe the results of this study.

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

Organizing memories by semantic groups is a human characteristic that is uninfluenced by schooling.

After studying the memory difficulties of H.M. and patients like him, it became apparent that:

According to the serial-position effect, if you are shown a list of items and then asked to immediately recall them:

Children cannot be induced to report real-life traumatic experiences that never actually happened to them.

Trivial Pursuit requires recognition.

With respect to children's testimony, researchers Stephen Ceci and Maggie Bruck suggest that the best question is:

Memory researchers have suggested that flashbulb memories may have evolutionary significance because they are adaptive in human survival.

The hippocampus is involved in the formation of procedural memories.

Which of the following statements regarding the measurement of memory is CORRECT?

Conscious, intentional recollection of an event or of an item of information is called:

Auditory images are held in sensory memory for a quarter-second to a half-second.

There are three circumstances that make it more likely for confabulation to occur. The text illustrates these conditions, using the true story of an acquaintance. For years, the woman thought that she had attended a party with an uncle who hammered a wall until it collapsed. But she wasn't there! Describe the four circumstances favouring confabulation, using her story to illustrate your points.

Memories of personally experienced events and the contexts in which they occurred are called:

In work with rabbits, Richard Thompson showed that one type of procedural memory, classical conditioning of an eye blink response, depends on activity in the:

Our authors suggest that in long-term memory, ________ may be the most common type of memory failure.

Without the testimony of eyewitnesses, many guilty people would go free. But some convictions are tragic mistakes because memory is reconstructive and the testimony isn't always reliable. Describe conditions under which errors in eyewitness testimony are most likely to occur.

According to Sir Frederic Bartlett:

Match the following definitions with the correct terms. -Rote repetition of material in order to maintain its availability in memory.