Exam 7: Memory

Two groups of people watched a videotape of an automobile accident. One group was asked the question "Did you see the children getting off the school bus?" even though there was no school bus in the video. A week later, both groups were asked, "Did you see a school bus in the film?" What happened?

An experimenter has subjects listen to some information then begin counting backward by threes. After 20 seconds the subject is most likely to remember the material if it was

__________ is a way that we improve memory by thinking about the meaning of a word and forming as many associations as possible.

After the neurological patient H.M. suffered damage to his hippocampus, he experienced a severe loss in his __________, but continued to be almost normal in his __________.

Professor Tryhard tries to learn the names of all her students every semester. As the years go by, she finds that she learns the names just as easily but forgets them faster. Why?

What would be the best way to increase your depth of processing when you read a list of words?

What memory problem is characteristic of people with Korsakoff's syndrome or prefrontal cortex damage?

If you are trying to memorize a list of words, which of the following would be the best advice?

What causes Korsakoff's syndrome?

Ebbinghaus memorized several lists of 13 nonsense syllables and then tested his memory after various delays. How long did it take him to forget half of what he had memorized?

Hermann Ebbinghaus forgot a new list that he learned faster than did most college students who participated in later experiments. Why did Ebbinghaus forget so rapidly?

"Once you learn to ride a bicycle, you never forget" is a statement regarding __________ memory.

Which kind of memory deficit is most likely to be observed in patients with Korsakoff's syndrome?

Many clinicians now use the term __________ instead of repression, to refer to a memory that is stored but cannot be retrieved.

A condition occurring mostly in old age that is characterized by increasingly severe memory loss, as well as confusion, depression, and disordered thinking is known as

Bahrick studied people's ability to remember a foreign language after learning it. His results showed:

After Wilbur fell off his motorcycle, he forgot just about everything that had happened during the last hour before his accident. What kind of memory loss is this?

Although the patient H.M. suffered severe amnesia, he remained fairly normal in his ability to learn

If you study under varied conditions at varied times of day, with small amounts of study at each time, spread out over long intervals, the result will be

Individuals with amnesia typically have problems remembering __________, while their ability to remember __________ remains intact.