Exam 7: Memory

A confabulation is

The hindsight bias refers to people's tendency to

When you read the word "slice" on a list, you think of it as something you do to a golf ball. Later when someone asks you which word on the list means the same thing as "piece," you cannot remember. Why?

Korsakoff's syndrome is most common in

The saying "Thirty days hath September..." is an example of

When comparing human memory to a computer, most psychologists today would agree with which of the following?

The encoding specificity principle refers to the fact that retrieval cues are more effective in stimulating a memory if those retrieval cues

The method of loci is one example of

Viewing memory as a process in which items enter memory and go from a brief sensory store to a short-term temporary memory to a long-term permanent memory is an example of

One unusual feature of implicit memory is that

When modern-day college students memorize one of the lists that Ebbinghaus memorized, what is generally true about the rate of forgetting?

Two people in the background are discussing Tibet, but you are paying no attention. After they leave, someone asks you what they had been talking about, and you say you don't know. Nevertheless, a few minutes later you start discussing Tibet yourself. What kind of memory are you displaying?

If you remember the number "14916253649" as "1-4-9-16-25-36-49" (the squares of the first seven integers), you are improving your ability to store the information by means of

If you spent the next year or two practicing your ability to memorize numbers and recite them immediately, how would your short-term memory probably change?

Despite severe memory impairments, most brain-damaged patients with amnesia continue to perform well on

One of the main symptoms of Korsakoff's syndrome is

According to the principle of encoding specificity, if you want to do well on a particular exam you should

Paul and Pam both got 85% correct on the first test. Pam studied hard for the next two tests while Paul quit studying altogether. Now, strangely, the final exam turns out to be almost identical to the first test. Who will do better on the final exam, and why?

Korsakoff's syndrome, which produces a severe memory impairment, is caused by

The patient H.M. suffered severe anterograde amnesia as a result of damage to which part of his brain?