Exam 7: Memory

All night,Pedro has been staring at Samantha from across the dance floor.At the end of the night,he finally gets the courage to ask her for her telephone number.His mental repetition of the number on the drive home is one example of

Terri was mugged one night while she was walking home.Later that same night,a police officer called to tell her that the police had arrested a man wearing a red baseball cap who was found in the are a.Although Terri's mugger was not wearing a hat when she was mugged,she now recalls the hat when she remembers the mugging.This is an example of the:

Unprocessed stimulation from the environment is first held in:

According to the serial-position effect,if you are shown a list of items and then asked to immediately recall them

Which of the following is an example of semantic memory?

Which of the following is an example of episodic memory?

Which of the following is a major problem with recovered memories?

Latasha remembers visiting Gettysburg on a cloudy day when she was a child.She recalls being bored at the time,but now wishes she had paid more attention.Latasha's memory is an example of a(n )_____ memory.

Schemas appear to affect which of the following stages of memory?

Following a car accident,Jane and Joan both suffer head injuries with resulting amnesi a.Joan cannot remember events that occurred before the accident,while Jane cannot remember events that occurred after the accident.Joan suffers from __________ amnesia and Jane from __________ amnesia

What we are thinking of at any given moment,or what we commonly know as "consciousness," is ____________.

On the first day of class,Sheila asked her professor the best way to learn and remember the material for the course.The professor responded,"Focus on identifying and understanding the meaning of the important terms and concepts." The instructor is advocating a ___________ level of processing.

Scott remembers all of the details of his wedding seven years ago.This information is most likely stored in _______ memory.

What is the system or process by which the products or results of learning are stored for future use?

When Rip Van Winkle returns to his native village,after 20 years of sleeping in the mountains,he goes immediately to the location of his former house and asks for his wife and children by name.The kind of memory that he is exhibiting is _______.

Because classical conditioning can occur without a person's knowledge,it can be considered one type of ____________ memory.

One study had participants view tapes of dental surgery after studying a word list.This study concluded that:

Chunking aids:

Long-term memory is sometimes unreliable because of _______ of information.

Billy has just returned home from visiting his grandparents.His grandfather always had a jar of jelly beans on the table,and his mother asked Billy about the jar."Sure," says Billy,"it was right there where it always was." Billy's mother knew that the jar was gone.The grandfather had recently been diagnosed with diabetes and had cut down on his sugar intake.Why did Billy remember seeing the jar of jelly beans?