Exam 7: Attention and Memory

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

After spending a day with your spouse, you excuse yourself for 20 minutes and change your clothes and hairstyle. However, you are disappointed because when you return because your spouse does not even notice. Your spouse's behaviour may not result from a lack of caring, but rather because of:

Your friend James asks you to entertain his younger sister when she comes to visit him at school. He tells you that his sister is great fun but quite shy. As a result, you decide to take his sister to a concert rather than to a big party. In making this decision you used:

Yesterday you taught your dog to crawl across the floor while barking. If the dog is to perform this fabulous trick tomorrow then he will need to ____________ the trick, then ____________ the trick, then ____________ the trick.

What structure in the brain allows a squirrel to find nuts in the winter that he stored last summer?

Srimoyee and Richa, who are fourth year university students, are reminiscing about their high school prom. Srimoyee enjoyed the prom, but it was not particularly important to her. For Richa, the prom was a very significant event. That was the night her boyfriend told her that he was going to break up with her because he had been secretly involved with Richa's best friend for quite a while. You would expect that Srimoyee would have trouble ____________ the prom and Richa would have trouble ____________ the prom.

Marianna takes the bus to school every day. One morning a different bus is used on her route. Marianna does not notice the change even though her usual bus is blue and white and the new bus is green and black. Marianna is showing:

Compared to only studying, studying while listening to music, checking email, and texting friends would most likely:

In Sperling's study of sensory memory, participants looked at three rows of letters flashed for one-twentieth of a second. In this study, the dependent variable was:

Uchenna has been studying for his philosophy midterm all day. It is now 3:00 AM and the exam is at 8:00 AM the same morning. The best thing that Uchenna can do now to increase his chances of doing well on the exam is to:

You are following the plot of a complicated Shakespeare play quite clearly while you are watching it. However, the next week you find that you cannot remember the details. Your loss of memory is most likely due to:

As you are telling a funny story, your boyfriend keeps interrupting you to say things like, "No, it was Sarah who said that, not LaToya." Either you or your boyfriend is experiencing:

If you study in the same room in which you take an exam you will probably do better on the exam than if you had studied somewhere else. This outcome occurs because of ____________ memory, which is a form of ____________.

Shayla is daydreaming about how good she will look in the dress that she bought for her brother's wedding. What brain site is activated during her daydream?

According to associative network theories, a concept in memory is localized in a:

If you are recalling an episode that never really happened you are experiencing:

If the Wicked Witch of the East flew down and struck you with retrograde amnesia you would be ____________ to form new memories and ____________ to remember events before the witch.

People have better memories for events that involve negative emotions. According to evolutionary theory, this suggests that negative emotions:

Sam is determined to remember his girlfriend's birthday. Sam imagines a big calendar. On the square for her birthday, Sam imagines his girlfriend sitting on a huge wrapped present smiling. Sam is using the mnemonic strategy of:

When you are studying for an exam, the part of the brain that is responsible for coordinating and strengthening the connections among neurons is: