Exam 5: Memory: Living With Yesterday

Imagine that the first car you learned to drive was a manual transmission with a clutch, but the car you drive now is an automatic. Sometimes you find yourself reaching for the clutch that is no longer there. This example illustrates ________.

Automatic processing, compared to controlled processing, involves less ________.

If you are thinking about the way to walk from your class to the library by trying to see the route, what are you doing?

Even though you may not remember the specific events that led you to have a certain opinion, your opinions nonetheless influence your behavior. This is because your opinions are often based on ________.

Jerome is preparing for his philosophy essay exam and has decided to just employ basic memorization skills. What does transfer appropriate processing predict in this case?

All of the following are characteristics of amnesia except ________.

When people hear a sound, their ears turn the vibrations in the air into neural messages from the auditory nerve, which makes it possible for the brain to interpret the sound. This process is called ________________.

The auditory form of sensory memory is called ________ memory.

The depth of processing model was proposed by Atkinson and Shiffrin.

In baboons, what is associated with low ranking in social order?

Which of the following pairings would result in the best overall memory?

At the level of the brain, what effect does the stress hormone cortisol have on memory?

If you are having trouble trying to remember some information, how could you increase your probability of recall?

Declarative memories are sometimes referred to as ________ memories.

Which of the following is most likely to be memorable for most people?

Adrianna is trying to memorize the names of the bones in the hand. She had gone through a list of them when her phone rang. After she gets off the phone, she is MOST likely to remember the first few bone names because of the ________.

When newer information interferes with the retrieval of older information, this is called ______________.

_________________ is the tendency for older or previously learned material to interfere with the retrieval of newer, more recently learned material.

Memories that concern events that are highly significant and are vividly remembered are called ______.

If you saw the video of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks shortly after they happened, your potential flashbulb memory for that event could be different from others who witnessed the event.