Exam 7: Attention and Memory

Many movies involve product placement; for example, the main actor may only drink cans of Dr. Pepper. Companies pay for product placement because they assume that it increases the likelihood that audience members will later buy the product. If this actually happens, it is likely due to existence of the item in:

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.

Children with attention deficit disorder are distracted by everything in the environment rather than being able to choose what they want to focus on. These children are lacking in:

Most forms of amnesia are caused by damage to the ____________, but Korsakoff's syndrome is a form of amnesia caused by damage to the ____________.

Karl can remember very little about his grandmother who died when he was three. Karl has no conscious memories of this, but his grandmother used to cook wonderful food from her native Poland. 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.

Jurors are listening to an eyewitness describe a murder. Research on eyewitness testimony suggests that the jurors will be:

Even though Manuel has watched his psychology professor lecture three times a week for 10 weeks, he does not know what colour her eyes are. This most likely represents a failure of:

Shushant makes up a rhyme to remember what she needs to buy at the grocery store. Shushant is trying to remember her list by using:

Students taking an introductory class in a subject that is completely new to them often find that the material seems very disorganized and confusing at the beginning. As the class progresses the information seems to become better structured and the students find it easier to integrate and interpret new material. One important reason for this happy change is that the students are developing ____________ that allow them to make sense of, organize, and utilize information in memory.

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 that could be better used for fish information. He is incorrect because:

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

Rose often worries that her boyfriend, Hadi, does not seem as emotionally involved with her as she is with him. She has much better and more vivid memories for the important events in their relationship than Hadi does. Rose might take comfort from the finding that:

Raakee was walking home late at night. She was terrified because she thought she heard someone following her. Raakee realized later that she could remember exactly what the street looked like when she thought she heard the footsteps. This experience highlights the role of the ____________ in ____________.

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.

Which memory system has both a large capacity and a short duration?

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

The storage phase of information processing lasts:

When a person incorrectly remembers the time, place, person, or circumstances involved in a memory, she is experiencing:

If a baseball hit you right between the eyes and damaged the brain area behind that part of the skull, you would have damaged the area important for:

The amygdala and hippocampus are located in which part of the brain?