Exam 6: Learning

Omar experienced a dissociative fugue state.He suddenly snapped out of it in front of a pet-supplies display in a discount store;he had no memory whatsoever of his previous life in Greensboro,NC.Omar's amnesia is best described as:

The levels-of-processing approach suggests:

Which of the following statements accurately captures the relationship among the modules of long-term memory?

"The Search for the Engram." Has this research quest proven fruitful? Evaluate this question with respect to what is known regarding the brain basis of memory.

Compare and contrast the capacity and duration of sensory and short-term memory.Describe the experimental and neuropsychological evidence supporting the distinction between short-and long-term memory.

Jerry is at a party.He is introduced to three different people in the span of a moment.Later,he is approached by the first person he met and cannot remember her name.Which of the following is most likely the source of Jerry's difficulty?

The process by which we encode,store,and retrieve information is known as _____.

Trey is studying German vocabulary for an upcoming test.He forms an image corresponding to an English word that sounds similar to the German word he is trying to learn.Trey is using the _____ technique.

Estelle remembers a night she was mugged and brutally beaten.This memory probably involves not only her hippocampus,but also her:

Dr.Ziemer is seeing a new patient,Mrs.Aaronson.Mrs.Aaronson is experiencing memory losses.Dr.Ziemer tests Mrs.Aaronson's language and problem-solving abilities.He also asks Mrs.Aaronson if she has a history of alcohol abuse.What might the language and problem-solving tests tell Dr.Ziemer? What would the answer to the alcohol abuse question tell him?

Distinguish between the decay,interference,and cue-dependent theories of forgetting.Provide an example of each.

Our long-term memories are often inaccurate,even when we are convinced we are correctly remembering past events.Support this statement making specific reference to research on flashbulb,eyewitness,and false and repressed memories.

A stimulus that facilitates the recall of information from long-term memory is called a:

Dr.Tranh has given so many lectures that he gives little thought to what he expects might happen: He assumes students will assemble,take notes,and occasionally ask a question.That Dr.Tranh finds the process so routine reflects the development of:

In the late 1950s and early 1960s,psychologist George Sperling conducted key studies of:

Memories of which we are not consciously aware are called _____ memories.

Cory knows that the capital of Vermont is Montpelier.This is an example of _____ memory.

When you tell an acquaintance your telephone number,you do not recite the digits one by one at a constant rate,as in "3,3,7,2,3,4,8,3,9,2." Rather,you might say,"3,3,7 ...2,3,4 ...83,92." This exemplifies _____,a strategy to enhance _____ memory.

The distinction between long-and short-term memory:

In _____ interference,information learned earlier disrupts the recall of information learned more recently;in _____ interference,recently learned information disrupts the recall of information learned earlier.