Exam 7: Memory

Which of the following situations best illustrates relearning?

Jermaine sees a car accident and he initially estimates the offending driver to be traveling at 50 kilometres per hour. However, after hearing another witness's report of the cars "bumping" and answering a police officer's questions about the rate of speed when the cars "contacted", he subsequently revises his estimate to 30 kilometres per hour and his memory of the accident changes. This is an example of ________.

________ is the first process of getting information into memory.

When listening to the radio, Ramona hears a song; she cannot immediately recall the band's name, but she is sure she knows the name. This is one example of ________.

Liv has just seen a commercial advertising a fancy kind of make-up that she would like to buy. She does not have a pen or a piece of paper to write down the telephone number, so she repeats to herself over and over again while she runs into the kitchen to find the telephone. Liv is currently using the process of ________ rehearsal to keep the telephone number active in her short-term memory.

An eyewitness to a crime says in court, while pointing to the defendant, "I was there; I saw that man pull the trigger!" How likely is it that the defendant will be found guilty?

When one attempts to recreate a retrieval environment that is as similar as possible to the initial encoding, or learning, environment as possible, he or she is making use of the principle of

Which of the following provides the best explanation for why your history teacher can remember 14 random historic dates, while you can only recall about seven?

The character of Dori from the movie Finding Nemo keeps complaining that she has short-term memory loss because she can't remember the name of the friend she just met. What is a more likely explanation for her memory failure?

Describe and differentiate by duration and capacity the various systems of memory.

Which of the following best illustrates the paradox of memory?

In the text, the authors discussed the astounding memory capabilities of Rajan. He could recall the digits for the number pi starting from nearly any place in the sequence. His amazing ability is due, in part, to his use of

Hideki and Thao are reviewing for an exam. Thao asks the following question: "What term refers to how people retain information over time?" Hideki would be most correct if he answered

Which of the following is the best example of chunking?

Pretend for a moment that you are the chairperson of the psychology department. Based on the information discussed on context-dependent learning, justify to your faculty why they should not reassign students to different seats on the day of an exam or should not give exams in different classrooms from where the material was learned.

You watch Leigh wave his sparkler as he runs. As you watch the light, you notice a circle of light rather than just a single point of light. This effect demonstrates the functioning of your ________.

The ability to identify the origins of a memory is known as ________.

When a teacher tells you to start studying weeks before the exam rather than waiting until the last minute, the teacher is really advising you to use

Roseanne claims that she can remember instances of childhood sexual abuse that started at six months of age. Why are most psychologists likely to be sceptical of this and other such claims?

Lizzie is staring at the diagram of an eye that will appear on the exam she will take in the next few minutes. She thinks that by staring at the diagram for a very long time she can "burn" the image into her brain. Although this strategy won't work, she is hoping to take advantage of her ________ memory.