Exam 6: The Acquisition of Memories and the Work-Ing-Memory System

Bill is given a list of words to memorize for a later test.While he is encoding the words,his brain activity is measured using fMRI.Describe the patterns of activity you would expect to see in Bill's brain for words he later remembers and those he later forgets.

Which of the following statements most accurately describes the relationships among acquisition,retrieval,and storage processes?

It is sometimes difficult to predict memory performance outside of the lab because

Ira is asked to remember the order of a previously presented list of words;the experimenter asks him to recall the words immediately after hearing them.Devon is asked to remember the same list,but his recall is delayed by 20 seconds after the list presentation;during that time,Devon is given no other task to form.We would expect

Which of the following most accurately represents the probability an item will be retained (most likely > least likely)?

Reading your notes,or the textbook,over and over again is NOT recommended as a study strategy because

Deep processing may lead to improved memory performance because it facilitates retrieval.How exactly does this happen?

A physician has just read an article about a recently developed drug.Which of the following is LEAST important in determining whether the physician will remember the article later?

Free recall refers to

Which of the following groups is most likely to remember the material it is studying?

You are watching TV when a commercial advertising a new pizza place comes on.You decide you want pizza,so you listen to the restaurant's phone number and then recite the number to yourself.Just as you are about to dial,your cell phone rings and you talk on the phone for a few minutes.What is most likely to happen after you finish your call?

A participant is trying to memorize the word "parade." To help herself,she thinks about the word within a complicated sentence: "From their third-floor apartment,they had a great view of all the bands,the cowboys,and the floats in the Thanksgiving parade." This learning strategy will produce

Why is the term "working memory" now preferred over "short-term memory"?

The memorizer plays an important role in memory acquisition.Which of the following is NOT discussed in the chapter as having an effect on long-term memory?

Describe the serial position curve and its relevance to the modal memory model.Include in your answer a description of the procedure,traditional findings,and the manipulations that help us understand the processes that lead to the traditional findings.

Participants in an experiment were asked to keep track of the most recent word they had heard that started with a "G." Therefore,participants should report "gravy" after hearing the sequence "girl,grump,hat,scissors,whistle,pen,radio,bed,foot,glass,lantern,gravy." Later,participants are asked to report back all the "G" words they heard.We would anticipate

As a general rule,the intention to learn

Modern conceptualization of the modal model asserts that information processing involves at least two kinds of memory: working memory and long-term memory (LTM).Working memory

Describe how previous knowledge or ideas of the memorizer can impact memory and how this can sometimes lead one to make memory errors.

Modern conceptualization of memory asserts that information processing involves at least two kinds of memory: working memory and long-term memory.Long-term memory is