Exam 7: Attention and Memory

Susanne goes into therapy because she is continually anxious and has trouble sleeping due to disturbing nightmares. Her therapist diagnoses Suzanne with post-traumatic 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 which this recovered memory poses is that:

Kumar is dreaming that he is running across campus because he is late for his exam. He anxiously keeps track of how close he is getting by monitoring the landmarks that he is passing. What part of his brain is helping him in this task?

Sam has serious problems with alcohol. On a daily basis, he drinks heavily and eats very little. Sam has begun to experience major memory loss. Sam's amnesia is most likely caused by:

Consider the many ways in which you could organize the books in your library. You could sort them into groups with the same colour cover. You could alphabetize them by the authors' last names or by the titles of the books. You could also sort them into groups with common themes. Which of these ways of organizing your library would be most like the way in which memories are organized in long-term memory?

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

Capgras syndrome is an extreme case of:

Change blindness seems ____________ because it ____________ information.

Shristi is in her second week of university. She is just beginning to feel as though she knows her way around campus. Her feeling is due, in part, to having had locations become linked to:

At the neurological level, deep encoding differs from shallow encoding because deep encoding involves:

It is much easier to recognize someone's face than it is to recall that person's name because retrieval cues:

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 ____________ triggered her prospective memory.

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:

Amanda is shown the word doctor at the beginning of her psychology class. When she is asked to fill in the blank "nur____________" after class, she chooses the word nurse. This result is best explained by:

Memory modulators are:

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

Which of the following is an example of prospective memory?

Dong Ni and Avishai were mountain climbing when a sudden avalanche caused them both to fall and hit their heads. After the accident, Dong Ni has trouble with memory encoding and Avishai has trouble with retrieval of memories. Dong Ni most likely sustained damage to his ____________ lobe and Avishai most likely sustained damage to his ____________ lobe.

The best way to learn another language is to live in the country where it is spoken for at least a year. From the perspective of human memory, one reason for this might be that the language is:

A character on a TV show wanders into a hospital seeking help because he can't remember who he is or where he is from. If the doctor on the show knows anything about memory, she will diagnose the man with:

People often maintain stereotypes about groups even after they have met individuals who contradict the stereotype. Given the phenomenon of memory bias, what might one reason be that a stereotype doesn't change with new information?