Exam 7: Memory

An experimenter reads a series of letters, such as TGWNR, and asks college students to recall it 20 seconds later. They are likely to forget the letters if they

How are the confabulations offered by patients with prefrontal cortex damage similar to the answers given by normal people who have learned something poorly?

Which of the following steps would be most likely to prevent people from developing Korsakoff's syndrome?

Your friend asks you to name the seven dwarves from "Snow White". This is a memory test that psychologists would call a __________ test.

Sports announcer Barry Ballbouncer has repeatedly had to memorize the names and statistics of football and basketball players. What should we expect about his ability to memorize still more names and statistics?

Which of the following is an example of episodic memory?

You are asked to sketch a picture of your General Psychology lecture hall. While you never actually tried to remember the types of chairs and the color of the carpet, you are told that your drawing has a number of features correct. Your memory for you classroom would be an example of __________ memory.

The vast majority of people who develop Alzheimer's disease have an onset that begins

The research conducted on people who have survived traumatic events leads to the conclusion that

People with prefrontal cortex damage, including patients with Korsakoff's syndrome, frequently display which of the following memory problems?

While taking a tranquilizing drug as a treatment for a muscle spasm, you witnessed an automobile accident. Later, your memory of the incident was rather fuzzy, but when you began taking tranquilizers again for test anxiety, some of the memories returned. This would be an example of

When you remember how a clock works, what type of memory is that?

When Ebbinghaus pioneered the experimental study of memory, the information he memorized was

You are watching Jeopardy with your brother and notice that he seems remarkable intelligent. After Alex Trebeck reads each answer, your brother states, "yep, I knew that". However, when you decide to mute the television during the reading of your answers, your brother has a very difficult time producing the correct answer. Your brother's initial response that he knew the correct answer after he heard it is an example of

If you were trying to remember the names of U.S. presidents, you would probably have the most trouble remembering

Research in the 1950's suggested that the capacity of short-term memory is

Memory improves when there is an increase in

Psychologists interested in studying repressed memories examined 16 children who were known to have witnessed the murder of one of their parents. What were the results of this study?

People with prefrontal cortex damage answer questions partly with wild guesses. These guesses, which are mostly out-of-date information, are called __________.

Why did Ebbinghaus use nonsense syllables in his memory experiments?