Exam 7: Memory

When you hear a story about a person you know,you will _____,which may lead to _____.

Geoff is trying to remember his shopping list by repeating the items over and over again to himself.He is using:

Attitude formation falls under which memory category?

According to levels of processing theory,information that is encoded more deeply is remembered better than information that is encoded less deeply,because information encoded more deeply:

If a retrieval cue is present in the environment,then a(n)_____ process is used to recall a prospective memory.If a retrieval cue is not present,then a(n)_____ process is used to recall the prospective memory.

In the context of memory,persistence is:

People have better memories for events that involve negative emotions.According to an evolutionary perspective,this phenomenon suggests that negative emotions:

Four witnesses see a truck hit a small car.If they all saw the same thing,who is likely to give the highest estimate of the truck's speed when testifying in court?

When you are studying for an exam,the part of the brain that is responsible for coordinating and strengthening the connections among neurons is the:

On the bus last week,Kyohei heard two women talking about someone named Enisa for the entire 30 minutes of the trip.Today,the woman sitting next to Kyohei in class told her friend that Enisa was coming.Kyohei assumed that Enisa was someone famous and wondered why she did not know her.Kyohei is experiencing the:

Memory researchers often ask participants in their studies to try to remember lists of words.Which of the following statements is a summary of the findings from these kinds of studies?

You memorize your four-digit PIN number for your bank card,but you also store this number on your phone.You keep your bank card and your phone in your backpack,and a thief steals your backpack.When you get your new bank card,you have to make up a new PIN,but every time you try to withdraw money,you can only remember the old PIN.What best explains this combination of remembering and forgetting?

The encoding specificity principle states that:

The idea that memory is distributed throughout the brain is called:

Suzanne goes into therapy because she is continually anxious and has trouble sleeping due to disturbing nightmares.Her therapist diagnoses Suzanne with posttraumatic stress disorder and encourages her to talk about distressing childhood memories.Eventually,Suzanne recalls having been abused by her uncle as a child.The problem that this ________ memory poses is that ________________.

After Itohan was in a serious car accident,she could remember everything that had happened to her before the accident,but she could not form new memories.Itohan most likely has _____ amnesia.

As a friend gives you her new address over the phone,you realize that you do not have a pen to write it down.Approximately how long do you have to find a pen before her address will vanish from your short-term memory?

Kumar is trying to remember who ran against John F.Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election.Kumar's search for information to answer this question is being carried out in his:

Jacob has to write an essay for his college writing class and decides to write about a boy who makes a boat from Popsicle sticks and sails it every day.When his teacher reads the essay,she realizes that Jacob got the idea from a popular book.Jacob denies knowing about the story from a book and honestly believes he thought of it himself.He is most likely suffering from:

Even though he has already memorized his notes,Hao reviews them every night for the two weeks before the exam.This strategy is likely to _____ his performance due to _____.