Exam 7: Attention and Memory

Sophia is participating in an fMRI study where she is asked to listen to a series of words. The fMRI will show the greatest brain activity when she hears words that are:

The false assumption that memory is distributed equally throughout the brain is called:

Laken took a course in which her professor talked about Virginia Woolf's novel To the Lighthouse. The next semester, she writes a paper for another class on Virginia Woolf. In her paper, Laken uses ideas that her earlier professor had presented, while believing that she has developed these ideas herself. Laken's behaviour comes from:

Dion keeps having nightmares and flashbacks about his brief time in the military. His chronic anxiety is most likely due to which disorder?

Students frequently learn the Big Five personality model by using the word OCEAN, where each letter of the word corresponds to the first letter of one of the factors (openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, neuroticism). These students are using:

Maria goes to see a therapist because she is depressed that none of her relationships with men last. Her therapist specializes in disorders rooted in childhood abuse and uses special techniques to uncover repressed memories of this abuse. A potential problem for Maria in seeing this therapist is that:

Faces, especially when threatening, are given a strong attentional response because:

Broadbent's filter theory of attention assumed that selective attention was necessary because people have limited ____________ capacity and thus must focus on the most ____________ information.

Yelizaveta is talking to one of the caterers setting up for her sister's wedding. While she is answering her cellphone a different member of the catering staff takes over. When Yelizaveta turns back to the conversation she completely fails to notice that she is now talking to a different person. Yelizaveta is experiencing:

Visual imaging is effective in improving memory because:

Laden has a memory of being given a wonderful teddy bear. She believes that she is remembering her second birthday. You could tell that the earliest birthday she could be remembering is her ____________ because until that time her ____________ lobes were too immature.

Research has found that the size of the hippocampi of London taxi cab drivers is positively correlated with the number of years they have been driving a cab. This finding suggests that more experienced cab drivers would have:

If you can remember exactly what you did yesterday but have trouble remembering the names of the 13 provinces, then you have excellent ____________ memory but somewhat poor ____________ memory.

Though Thomas Sophonow from Winnipeg was imprisoned for murder, he was later found to be innocent. The testimony of witnesses was flawed because the witnesses:

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

After a group project, the teacher asks each group member to rate the contribution of everyone in the group. She finds that all of the group members have given their highest ratings to themselves. The teacher would be less puzzled by this outcome if she understood the concept of:

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

Nadia changed her computer password on Monday. On Friday, she realizes that she failed to change the password in one system. When she tries to get in to that system with her old password, she cannot remember it; her new password keeps coming to mind. Nadia's problem is due to:

Anita started to talk at 9 months and was speaking fluently by the time she was a year old; she crawled at 13 months and was walking at 15 months. Xenia started to talk at 14 months and was speaking fluently just after her second birthday; she crawled at 10 months and was walking by her first birthday. One theory of childhood amnesia might predict that ____________ will have memories from an earlier age because of her ____________.

Kyle has been arrested for robbery. He maintains that he is innocent; he claims to have been with his girlfriend Joanna that day. If the police had an fMRI scanner they could evaluate Kyle's claim. If Kyle is not telling the truth, then when he claims not to have robbed the store the fMRI should show activation of: