Exam 7: Attention and Memory

Tatyana remembers every detail of her senior prom. This is in part because of the release of ____________, which is a ____________.

Bob and Sally watch a horror movie. The ____________ amygdala of Bob's brain will be activated and the ____________ amygdala of Sally's brain will be activated.

In order for us to experience the world as a continuous stream of information, one experience is kept briefly in the brain while we move to the next experience. This is accomplished by using our:

In a serial position curve, words that are not part of either the primacy or recency effect may be:

Understanding how to serve a ball in tennis involves ____________ memory, but actually serving the ball involves ____________ memory.

Students in a psychology study are asked to look at pictures of models in different dresses. Group A is asked to remember the colours of the dresses. Group B is asked to decide whether each dress looks good on that model. Group A should show ____________ frontal lobe activation and ____________ memory for the dresses than Group B.

Even though you have only been to your friend's apartment once before, you are able to find it again easily by using landmarks. What kind of memory made it possible for you to do this?

Samantha has just broken up with her boyfriend and is feeling very sad. She resolves to change her mood by thinking about happy things but finds that she just keeps remembering other sad things. Samantha's experience can best be explained in terms of:

In a memory experiment, participants in Group A are asked to just listen to a list of words. Group B is asked to count the number of words that begin with the lettere. Group C is asked to repeat each word as they hear it. Group D is asked to use each word in a sentence. According to Craik and Watson's levels of processing theory, which group would later remember more of the words on the list?

The phase of information processing that is most similar to a Google search is:

Consider a psychology experiment where someone is asked to say, as rapidly as possible, whether a sentence appearing on a computer screen is true or false. Research has shown that people will be faster to say that it is true that a sandal is a shoe than to say that it is true that a sandal is a piece of clothing. Which model of human memory could easily account for this finding?

The difference between absentmindedness and blocking is that in absentmindedness the information is:

Yu-sheng, Jocelyn, and Juan are in three different introductory anthropology classes. Yu-sheng's class takes a multiple-choice midterm. Jocelyn's class takes a short-answer midterm. Juan's class takes an essay midterm. Which student(s) takes the midterm that requires the greatest depth of processing?

Your best friend's favourite hamster died while you and a new neighbour were there. The most vivid memory of the event will be ____________ because ____________.

After a plane crash, Sherrod wakes up in the hospital and can remember everything about his life. The doctor comes in, introduces himself, and explains the course of treatment. The next day, Sherrod believes that he has never met the doctor and asks him to explain the proposed treatment. The doctor is likely to diagnose Sherrod with:

Sergio tells Monica that his roommate goes to a lot of parties. After this conversation, Monica tells Genevra that Sergio's roommate drinks a great deal. Monica believes this about Sergio's roommate because:

Kumar is trying to answer a question on his government exam. It asks him to name the first three prime ministers of Canada. The search and analysis of information to answer this question is being carried out in ____________ by the ____________.

You have just been to a wonderful concert. What brain areas work together to consolidate your memory for the concert?

The encoding specificity principle states that:

Forgetting the store where you bought your blue sweater is analogous to ____________. Thinking that the red sweater is yours when you actually borrowed it from your sister is analogous to ____________.