Exam 6: Learning

A research participant is required to report as much of a poem as he can remember immediately after having read the poem once.We would expect the greatest number of recall errors in lines:

_____,an illness characterized in part by severe memory problems,is the fourth leading cause of death among adults in the United States.

_____ processes are processes in which memories are influenced by the meaning we give to events.

Mickey is about to take his psychology final.Just before the exam,the person sitting next to Mickey asks him the name of the physiologist who worked on classical conditioning.Mickey suddenly realizes that he cannot quite remember the name,but he knows that it starts with a P and is two syllables long.Mickey is experiencing:

A _____ is a stimulus that allows us to recall more easily information that is in long-term memory.