Exam 7: Memory

When you recall a memory of your best friend's car,you are activating the cortical circuits in the _____ cortex involved in _____ her car.

Scientists have developed a new drug that leaves your current memory intact,but people who take the drug can no longer learn new information.This drug produces:

Ivaylo goes skiing after many years away from the sport.What kind of memory makes it possible for him to get back on the slopes without taking new skiing lessons?

As a research participant,you read a list of names of unknown individuals.On another day,you read a list that includes some of those names,and you are asked if anyone on the list is famous.According to the _____,you will remember the individuals from the first list as famous.

You witness an accident and see one of the cars driving away from the scene.Even though you have just seen the license plate,you cannot remember the number.The license plate was probably NOT initially:

People are especially bad eyewitnesses when:

Yu-Ting vividly remembers the day that her husband took her completely by surprise when he proposed to her.She believes that she remembers every detail of the proposal.The research suggests that this _____ memory is _____ ordinary memories.

As a research participant,you study this list of words: curtain,book,anger,dirt,plant,hunger,paper,sadness,sunshine,music,disease,surprise,fired,love,test,pizza,electricity.When you are later asked to recall the list,the _______ effect would suggest that you are most likely to have trouble remembering _______.

If you spend the same amount of time reviewing material as testing yourself on the material,you will learn more from _____ because of the increased _____ time.

In a serial position curve,words that are NOT part of either the primacy effect or the recency effect are more easily:

Jon is trying to remember his class schedule from last semester,but he keeps thinking of his current classes instead.This phenomenon is an example of which type of interference?

Even though Manuel has watched his psychology professor lecture three times a week for 10 weeks,he does not know what color her hair is.This lack of knowledge most likely represents a failure of:

After a plane crash,Sherrod wakes up in the hospital and can remember everything about his life.The doctor comes in,introduces himself,and explains the course of treatment.The next day,Sherrod believes he has never met the doctor and asks him to explain the proposed treatment.The doctor is likely to diagnose Sherrod with:

An older view of human memory argued that all memories were essentially of the same type.Newer views like those of Schachter and Tulving disagree,arguing that memories involve several different:

When Rhuju walks past the chemistry building,she remembers that she has a lab report due the next day.The chemistry building served as a _____ that automatically triggered her _________ memory.

Raul saw a car crash on the way to campus.Yosep participated in a psychology experiment in which he saw a film of a car crash.How accurate would you expect these memories to be,given the research on event memory?

Jacob learned French in high school and is now learning Spanish in college.He finds that sometimes when he intends to write a Spanish word he instead writes a French word.Jacob's problem is due to:

Alex sees a girl stealing a candy bar in a convenience store.When the police question him,Alex says the thief was wearing a red shirt.Later in the interrogation,the officer asks what candy the girl in the blue shirt stole.Months later,when Alex testifies in court,he describes the girl as having worn a blue shirt.Alex's testimony at the trial shows the influence of:

The police have put an Asian American suspect in a lineup of Asian Americans.The identification is most likely to be accurate if the eyewitness is:

When Jon visits his grandmother's house,he always thinks about his childhood.Something about the way her house smells triggers the memory.This phenomenon is referred to as: