Exam 8: Memory

Which of the following would be the least helpful thing to do in trying to remember who played the leads in your sixth-grade production of The Sound of Music?

Two groups hear a list of 20 unrelated items at the same one-item-per-second rate and are then tested for free recall. For group I, the test comes 1 second after hearing the final item in the list. For group II, the test comes 30 seconds after hearing the final item, with the 30 seconds filled with backward counting. Which of the following should we expect?

Phil listens to a talk radio program with great interest. He then listens to a second, similar program. Phil later finds it difficult to remember the details of the first program. What has probably occurred?

The "recency effect" refers to the fact that __________.

A new robot is developed. Its knowledge is stored in an adaptive neural network that allows it to learn from its experiences. However, there are very few connections between the nodes of knowledge in the network. Based on your text's discussion, what might you predict with respect to the robot's performance on memory tasks?

Participating in a psychology experiment, Hannah hears this list of words: "truck . . . wheel . . . motorcycle . . . taxicab . . . bus . . . van . . . bicycle . . . street . . . " In which of the following hypotheses might we have the most confidence?

The capacity of working memory in chunks is about the same as the number of __________.

Suppose you learn to associate pairs of words by using visual chunking. You would then have the easiest time recalling which of the following?

A drug that prevents processing of information into long-term memory is administered to a subject prior to a memory task. Under these conditions, which effect will likely be eliminated?

Having done "21 for 21" shots, Deanna barely remembers her 21st birthday. That is, her __________ memory is sketchy.

Which of the following statements best describes the relationship among the stimulus words in the DRM paradigm?

At the end of fifth grade, Ron moved from West Virginia to Pennsylvania. A researcher now wants to know how many of the West Virginia counties Ron remembers. The researcher gives Ron a list of 30 counties, 15 from West Virginia mixed in with 15 from other states. Ron's job is to pick out the West Virginian counties. Which method does this test use?

A police officer leads a witness back to the scene of the crime and asks her to recall as much as she can about the event. The officer is attempting to take advantage of __________.

Memorizing material using the method of loci __________.

In the DRM paradigm, participants often mistakenly recall a word that did not appear on the list; this is because the list words serve as __________ for this item.

"How are the new contacts?" Clarissa asks. "A little strange … but I'm getting used to them," Dante replies. Dante is experiencing __________.

A student is presented with a list of word pairs, including the pair "stone-chair." According to the encoding-specificity principle, which word would be the best cue for the recall of "chair" on a subsequent task?

A sudden blow to the head often causes forgetting of the events in the few seconds or minutes that preceded the blow. This finding is most consistent with which of the following ideas about memory?

Sondra has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. According to your text, which of the following is most likely to improve her memory?

There are lots of books on your bookshelves, but you aren't making use of them right now; those you are making use of are out on your desk. Because books on your bookshelves contain information you are not accessing right now, but may need later, those books are in fact very similar to the kind of information held in __________.