Exam 7: Memory

A likely way in which suggestibility might cause new information to change an old memory is through:

How does prospective memory limit the cognitive resources available for other tasks?

Students frequently learn the Big Five personality model by using the acronym OCEAN,where each letter of the word corresponds to the first letter of one of the factors (openness,conscientiousness,extraversion,agreeableness,neuroticism).These students are using:

Storage in this memory system is brief and represents a sensory experience.

Sally used to live in a small town in Iowa,but she moved to New York City about 10 years ago.When she sends holiday cards to her friends in Iowa,she has trouble remembering their zip codes and can think of only ones in New York.This phenomenon is most likely due to:

Remembering how to ride a bike is an example of which type of memory?

The tendency to make memories consistent with current beliefs or attitudes is referred to as:

When remembering words on a list,people tend to remember words at the beginning of the list and words at the end of the list better than words in the middle of the list.This phenomenon is known as:

Karl's grandmother,who came from Poland,died when he was three.He can remember very little about her.In fact,he has no conscious memories of the wonderful Polish food she used to cook.One day,Karl walks by a Polish restaurant and is flooded with memories of his grandmother.The food served as a _____ for Karl's memories of his grandmother.

Asking an eyewitnesses how tall or how short the suspect was could result in:

Patient H.M.suffered from seizures and had part of his medial temporal lobes removed.As a result,he could no longer:

If you study in the same room in which you take an exam,you will probably do better on the exam than if you had studied somewhere else.This outcome occurs because of _____ memory,which is a form of _____.

In memory information processing,an individual MUST ________ a memory before ___________ it.

Anita started to talk at 9 months and was speaking fluently by the time she was a year old; she crawled at 13 months and was walking at 15 months.Xenia started to talk at 14 months and was speaking fluently just after her second birthday; she crawled at 10 months and was walking by her first birthday.One theory of childhood amnesia might predict that _____ will have memories from an earlier age because of her _____.

At a party,you get into an argument with someone by making an insulting remark.The next day,you remember the argument as being the other person's fault.You do not remember that you were actually to blame because of:

When you read,your eyes fixate for a fraction of a second,and then jump to a new point in the text.Your reading experience is continuous because during the jump,the information from the last eye fixation is held in:

Research has shown that memories can be distorted because of beliefs that people already hold when the memory is formed.These earlier beliefs are part of cognitive:

Shannon has a biology exam next week.To be sure that she really knows the material,she should:

Professor Smith is doing research on fish.He refuses to learn his students' names because he believes that the names take up space in his long-term memory,which could be better used for fish information.He is incorrect because:

One of the best ways to remember factual information is to relate it to something personal that happened to you.In this way,you are taking advantage of your _____ memory to aid retrieval from your _____ memory.