Exam 7: Attention and Memory

The memory enhancement that occurs when the situations during encoding and recall match is called ____________ memory; the memory enhancement that occurs when the internal states during encoding and recall match is called ____________ memory.

You can attend to a single conversation with a friend in the middle of a room filled with people talking, yet if someone else mentions your name it grabs your attention. This is an example of:

Which of the following does memory bias NOT result from?

Joanna's boyfriend Kyle has been arrested for robbery. Joanna believes that Kyle was with her all that day. However, a teacher claims that Joanna was on a field trip. If the police had an fMRI scanner they could evaluate Joanna's memory. If Joanna's memory is accurate, then recalling the day of the robbery should activate:

False memories (i.e., the false recollection of episodic memories):

If you are imagining how you might rearrange your room to have more space, you are using:

It could be argued that change blindness is adaptive because it:

Michael incorrectly judged his distance while ski jumping and crashed head first into a tree. Since the accident, he has difficulty in developing goals and following plans. Michael has most probably damaged his ____________ lobes.

Digitally editing a photograph on a computer is analogous to which memory process?

Lashley's idea that memory is distributed equally throughout the brain is contradicted by the idea of:

Michael is participating in a psychology experiment in which he is shadowing a physics passage in his right ear, while hearing a novel in his left ear. Michael wants to get done so he can go home and watch the big game. If a sentence giving the score in the game is inserted into the passage from the novel, Michael is most likely to:

Ivaylo goes skiing after many years away from the sport. What kind of memory makes it possible for him to get back on the slopes without taking new skiing lessons?

An older view of human memory argued that all memories were essentially of the same type. Newer views disagree, arguing that memories involve different:

Which of the following memories are most permanent?

People find it very easy to put on a button-down shirt, but much harder to list the steps involved in putting on that shirt. This suggests that ____________ memory is more useful in getting dressed than ____________ memory.

Roel heard a spoof of the news on The Daily Show. The next week he describes the event in the spoof as having really happened. Roel's false belief that the news story was true is an example of:

In a classic science fiction novel, alien pods grow into exact duplicates of people. The people then die and the duplicates take their places. The family members of the replaced people are sure that these people are not their relatives, but no one believes them. The family members feel like people suffering from:

Shamithia is participating in a short-term memory experiment. She has been given a list of words and is asked to recall them after several minutes. One of the words on the list is CAT. Shamithia is most likely to incorrectly recall this word as:

A friend gives you her new address over the phone, and you realize that you do not have a pen to write it down. Approximately how much time do you have to find a pen before her address will vanish from your short-term memory?

Miriam is a competitive gymnast. Every day she goes over all of her routines several times. Every time she goes through a routine, Miriam is: