Exam 6: Learning

You examine the schedule for your favorite football team.The team plays sixteen games each season.Later you try recalling that schedule for a friend who likes the same team you do.Chances are you will recall opponents at the beginning of the schedule particularly well.This is an example of the _____ effect.

_____ memory is memory for general knowledge and facts about the world,as well as memory for the rules of logic that are used to deduce other facts.

Which of the following forms of memory refers to memory for skills and habits?

Which of the following is true of the neuroscience of memory?

"Discuss several factors that contributed to the economic collapse of late 2008," asks a question on the midterm in an Economics course.Such a question is a test of _____ memory.

"It's like riding a bike;once you know how,you don't forget." This adage suggests that procedural memories do not require conscious attempts at recall;that is,procedural memories are often _____.

What are constructive processes in memory? Explain.

The first psychologist to emphasize the importance of constructive processes in memory was:

Pierre has been an alcoholic for several decades.Now in his 50s,his intellectual abilities are intact,but he suffers from memory deficits and hallucinations.Based on this information,you suspect that Pierre may be afflicted with:

As you work on a complex multiplication problem in your head,the numbers you are manipulating are in your _____ memory,and the multiplication tables you are drawing on are in _____ memory.

Having done "21 for 21" shots,Deanna barely remembers her 21^st birthday.That is,her _____ memory is sketchy.

Three year-old Jane had learned the names of fruits from a picture book.She was taken to a grocery store and asked to identify apples and melons kept in the store.Which of the following memory tasks would be used by Jane to identify the fruits?

A(n)_____ is a meaningful group of stimuli that can be stored as a unit in short-term memory.

The concept of working memory represents a contemporary conceptualization of _____ memory.

An "oldie" playing on the radio may remind you of events that occurred when the song was current.The song is acting as a(n):

"She did WHAT?" your roommate exclaims as you relate an anecdote about a mutual friend.Your roommate is processing your story in _____ memory.

The 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center,Princess Diana's death,and the 1986 Challenger explosion.People's memories for the moment in which they learned of these events are termed _____ memories.

Which of the following accurately describes the processing of information in working memory?

Describe the two sorts of interference that influence forgetting.

_____ is a process in which memories are influenced by the meaning we give to events.