Exam 8: A: Memory

In George Sperling's classic research on iconic memory,participants were presented with arrays of three rows of letters and numbers.In which procedure were they asked to recall only one row in the display?

While Krista is jogging in the park,the scene of a family enjoying a picnic catches her eye.After Krista turns away,what will happen to the image of the family?

The professor has become so adept at reviewing students' papers that spelling errors just seem to jump out at him.Which term best explains this phenomenon?

Which statement best characterizes Alzheimer's disease?

Tim's friend suffered a bike accident and is unconscious in the hospital.The nurses are asking Tim for her parent's phone number,and although Tim is now calm,he cannot remember it without looking at the phone and pretending to dial it.Tim's fingers remember the number when memory efforts fail.What concept does this scenario illustrate?

For most individuals who read this question,which of the following would probably be seen as a single "chunk" of information?

In trying to prepare for an exam,Chase forms visual images and makes stories that use concepts in creative ways.Which memory technique is being described?

Multiple choice questions on a test are good examples of the recognition method of retrieval.

Using positron emission tomography to study episodic memory,what did Endel Tulving and his colleagues demonstrate?

Episodic memories are specific events that you have personally experienced.

Roy is studying for a test on the Civil War.When asked if he feels as though he knows the important information related to the Battle of Gettysburg,ideas related to the battle immediately enter his consciousness,and he feels confident in his knowledge.Which hypothesis explains Roy's "feeling-of-knowing"?

Which statement best characterizes proactive interference?

In an experiment by Endel Tulving and Donald Thomson that is described in the textbook,participants were given a list of word pairs to learn and were instructed to remember the second word of each pair only.Later they were asked to either recognize any second word of a pair that appeared on a list presented to them,or to recall the second word after being given the first word of the pair.What were the findings?

A relative is showing his vacation slides.Where are the viewers' visual images first stored for a very brief time?

Hannah is asked to name the composer of the "Maple Leaf Rag." She has prior familiarity with the "Maple Leaf Rag" so she thinks that she will be able to recognize the correct alternative when given multiple choices.Which theory undelies Hannah's belief?

In a study presented in the textbook regarding encoding specificity,questions were posed in either Mandarin or English.When were the participants most successful?

Which of the following is a recent advance that is important to our understanding of Alzheimer's disease?

Which component of working memory is used when deciding to attend to certain portions of a psychology lecture?

What memory process is required when taking a multiple-choice test?

How is memory a reconstructive process? What evidence suggests that we may not remember events as exact replications of the real events?