Exam 7: Attention and 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 Raul and Yosep's memories to be, given the research on event memory?

Hsiao-An was in a serious accident that damaged areas of her frontal lobes and limbic system. When her husband comes to see her at the hospital she maintains that he is not her husband at all, but someone pretending to be her husband. The accident has left Hsiao-An with:

People who were close to the location of Ground Zero during the 9/11 terrorist attacks are very likely to show increased physiological responses to:

Attitude formation falls under which memory category?

LaToya eats strawberries while studying for her art history exam. The strawberries provide ____________ which will act as a ____________.

False memories occur because:

According to the repetition priming effect, if you are shown the word apple at the beginning of your psychology class and then asked to fill in the blank "app____________" at the end of class, you will be most likely to choose the word:

Melanie goes to the hospital emergency room hysterical and hurt because she has just been attacked. If the ER doctor wanted to be sure that Melanie would not develop post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the attack, he could give her ____________ which block(s) postsynaptic ____________ receptors.

While you are at the movies, the person sitting next to you coughs so loudly that you cannot hear part of an actor's line. However, your perception is that you have heard the entire sentence, including the part masked by the cough. This is possible because of:

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 ____________.

You start to answer an exam question and even though you know the word for the answer, you cannot remember it. You can remember the shape of the word, the first letter, where on the page of your notes the word is, but not the word itself. You are suffering from:

People usually remember how many days there are in the months of September, October, and May by using:

Fayd is studying for his English literature exam. For each novel, he tries to think of how the novel relates to his own life, which requires that he really think about the themes and characters in the book. Fayd is using the mnemonic strategy of:

A lie and a false memory are:

Alejandro was lost in the woods and thought he heard a bear. He climbed a tree to see if he could find a way home. A week later, he tells his friend with absolute sincerity that he climbed the tree to escape the bear. Alejandro is experiencing:

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:

H.M. was a patient who, following surgery, had profound memory difficulties. You could best describe his memory problems as:

According to evolutionary theory, the brain is selective about the information that gets stored in long-term memory because:

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

Changes in the strength of neural connections and construction of new synapses causes: