Exam 7: Memory

Koriat, Bjork, Sheffer, & Bar designed a study in which three groups of students were asked how well they would remember something-either immediately, tomorrow, or next week. What was the result?

In one recent study relevant to infant amnesia, three-to-four-year-old children could describe an experience that happened a few months ago ONLY IF

According to the levels-of-processing principle, certain memories are easy to recall because we

The concept of working memory is roughly synonymous with

If asked to tell your social security number (without looking it up), you are being asked to perform a __________ memory test.

Many clinicians now use the term dissociation to refer to

After damage to his hippocampus, patient H.M. lost most of his ability to

You are given a list of grocery items to remember to purchase on your trip to the store. These items are; apples, bread, celery, lettuce, grapes, and onions. According to the recency effect, what item are you most likely to remember?

What is anterograde amnesia?

Hermann Ebbinghaus, having previously memorized thousands of lists of nonsense syllables, forgot newly learned lists faster than most other people do. Why?

What have psychologists learned about memory from their studies of the patient H.M.?

One significant problem with eyewitness testimony is that

According to the levels-of-processing principle, some memories are easier to recall than others because

A person with Alzheimer's disease will develop

Participants in an experiment heard a description of the military conflicts between the British and the Gurkas in India. Some were told the true outcome and others were told false outcomes. All participants overestimated their ability to have predicted the outcome that they believed to be true. This is known as

A retrieval cue essentially is

Freud's term for forgetting due to the moving of a memory from the conscious mind to the unconscious mind was

In psychologists' current conception of working memory, what is the relationship between the phonological loop and the visuospatial sketchpad?

People can often work on two unrelated tasks (such as remembering a series of 5 digits while also doing a visual task) with less interference between the tasks than one might expect. This fact has been taken as support for the idea that

The patient H.M. suffered memory problems after damage to his