Exam 8: Memory

Based on your text's discussion, which of the following is NOT among the brain areas associated with familiarity and recollection?

When a memory is presently inaccessible, it may sometimes be recalled by using an appropriate __________.

What allows a person to distinguish between a false memory and a true memory, according to research?

Phil cannot remember much about his camping trip to Vermont in the summer of 1989, but as soon as he smells the aroma of bacon and pine smoke, he recalls many details about the trip. The smells of the bacon and smoke acted as __________.

In trying to remember where we have seen someone before, we can't figure out whether we dreamed about the person or whether we met him at a recent party. This kind of uncertainty is called __________.

Jerry is at a party. He is introduced to three different people in the span of a moment. Later, he is approached by the first person he met and cannot remember her name. Which of the following has Jerry experienced?

As you work on a complex multiplication problem in your head, the numbers you are manipulating are in your __________ memory, and the multiplication tables you are drawing on are in __________.

The capacity of working memory seems to be about __________ items.

Memory consolidation, the process through which memories get transformed from a transient to a more permanent state, can be disrupted by __________.

Which of the following facts about memory has the most relevance for a student who is currently in the process of cramming for an exam?

Participants sometimes believe that an individual pictured in a photo lineup took part in a crime, when in fact they had only seen the individual's face in a photograph they saw after the crime but before the lineup. According to your text, how many participants fall prey to this memory error?

The forgetting curve indicates that __________.

Another word for short-term memory is __________.

Which of the following is FALSE with respect to repetition priming studies?

A loss of stored information as a function of time is called __________.

Melissa is going on a sea cruise for the first time in seven years. She cannot remember much about her first Caribbean voyage before setting sail on her new trip, but as soon as she feels the ship roll and she smells the salty air, she recalls several details about her original trip. The rolls and smells have acted as __________.

Anterograde amnesiacs __________.

Psychologists have offered different types of explanations for the potential differences between memory for traumatic events and memory for more mundane events. Which type of explanation is most amenable to scientific assessment?

The famous neurological patient H. M. lost much of his ability to consolidate memories when regions of his temporal lobe were removed in an attempt to __________.

Dr. Ellis is contrasting the depth-of-processing and encoding-specificity hypotheses. In her experiment, two groups of participants study a word list in a psychology laboratory. Participants in group I determine whether each word is a synonym of a target word; those in group II determine whether each word rhymes with a target word. Some time later, half the participants in each group try to recall the list given sound-focused cues; the other half try to recall the list given meaning-focused cues. Participants given meaning-focused retrieval cues outperform those given sound-focused cues, regardless of the task they performed when they learned the list. What does this result say with respect to the depth-of-processing and encoding-specificity hypotheses?