Exam 6: Learning

"Milk,cereal,candy." Your roommate begins reciting items as you get ready to leave to the store.He continues to list a few more items.Finally,he wraps up: "Spaghetti sauce,dish liquid,and ice tea mix." You forget a few things,but the spaghetti sauce,dish liquid,and ice tea mix are in the bag.Your memory for these items reflects the _____ effect.

Which of the following is true of explicit memory and implicit memory?

According to the levels-of-processing theory,which of the following students should retrieve information more successfully on classroom tests?

Which of the following alternatives best expresses psychologist Elizabeth Loftus' position on the validity of repressed memories?

Describe working memory.

One's culture is most likely to influence:

The term engram is generally discouraged by psychologists studying memory.Why might this be?

Ralph is preparing a report on his academic field trip to a manufacturing plant.He is trying to remember each event of the trip in the order in which it occurred to prepare an accurate report in a presentable form.Which of the following memory tasks is Ralph using?

Material in memory storage has to be located and brought into awareness to be useful.This process is known as _____.

Some psychologists consider classical conditioning to be a form of implicit memory.Which of the following is probably the best reason for suggesting that classical conditioning is a type of implicit memory?

Maguire,Woollett,& Spiers conducted an fMRI study of the role of the hippocampus in spatial memory.The study showed that years of experience driving a taxi in London was _____ correlated with the size of posterior portions of the hypothalamus and _____ correlated with the size of anterior portions of the hypothalamus.

When you try to list all the classes you've ever taken in college,chances are you will recall your last few classes particularly well.What is this phenomenon called?

What are flashbulb memories?

With respect to the potential influence of a written language on the recall ability of a culture's members,research has:

The conscious repetition of information to ensure its survival in short-term memory is termed _____ rehearsal.

"I don't know who told me first,but I heard that Kenny…" Lana begins,sharing gossip on the phone to a friend.Lana is experiencing:

How does use of a schema improve memory?

Our ability to recall an item from a list depends on where in the list the item occurs.This is the _____ effect.

The study of sensory memory is associated with:

Dr.Sally acquired her neurosurgery degree at an online college based in the West Indies.Unfortunately,during her first brain surgery,she inadvertently destroyed her patient's hippocampus,impairing his process of _____,whereby memories are stabilized in long-term memory.