Exam 6: Memory

According to the Innocence Project at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University,an estimated 25 percent of wrongful convictions involve faulty eyewitness testimony,as distinguished from identification error.The memory process closely associated with faulty eyewitness testimony is called:

Brian went from Canada,where he grew up,to England.The first week he was there,he had a terrible time remembering to drive on the left side of the road.His problem is most likely due to:

The most influential researcher into eyewitness memory has been:

Memories retrieved while under hypnosis are no more accurate than memories retrieved while not under hypnosis,but persons who retrieve memories under hypnosis are far more reluctant to change their answers even when told that they may be wrong.

A mnemonist is a person with exceptional memory ability.

When asked to recall the date of Sidney Crosby's Olympic medal-winning goal,Peter draws a blank; however,when asked whether it was January 28,2010,February 28,2010,or March 28,2010,he correctly answers with the second choice.This example most clearly demonstrates the value of:

Canadian researchers Arbuthnott and Campbell determined that there are actually two processes (excluding irrelevant information and eliminating no longer useful information)involved in the memory function known as:

Which of the following is not an example of a test using recall?

Bethany is trying to focus on a conversation across the room during a party she is attending.This is because she thinks she heard her name above the din of the conversation.Her ability to hear her name is an example of a process called the ____________ effect.

Hypnotized people report more accurate AND inaccurate information than people who are not hypnotized.

The physical change that takes place in the brain when a memory is formed is called:

Which type of LTM is seldom,if ever,lost by people with Alzheimer's disease?

Luria's mnemonist suffered from the problem of not being able to forget trivial things.

Encoding specificity refers to:

Elaborative rehearsal is defined as the rote repetition of material in order to maintain its availability in memory.

What was the outcome of Porter and Peace's research about childhood victims of trauma and memory?

Evidence suggests that procedural memories are stored in the hippocampus,whereas short-term memories are stored in the occipital and temporal lobes of the cortex.

Famous Canadian amnesiac Kent Cochrane's unique form of amnesia has helped memory researchers distinguish between _________ and ___________ memory.

Recent research studies have found that European Canadians were faster at:

__________ memory is thought to be organized in the form of semantic networks or nodes of related information spreading out from a central piece of knowledge.