Exam 6: Section 2: Memory

A participant studied the following word pairs: reptile-snake, reptile-turtle, reptile-lizard, amphibian-frog, amphibian-salamander, and amphibian-newt. Then, the participant practiced recalling only the amphibian-salamander pair using the prompt: "amphibian-sala_____." Sometime later, the participant was given a memory test of the words he had originally studied. Of these, which word would be most likely forgotten?

A psychologist is questioning Hunter about his childhood memories. Hunter is telling the psychologist the story of his favorite Christmas present, a trip to Disneyland. His memories of the present and the trip itself are very clear; however, Hunter believes that the present came from his Uncle Charley, when in fact it was from his Aunt Beth. This type of error in memory is known as:

The persistence of memory is advantageous in the sense that it:

A frazzled mother trying to pacify her fussy toddler while paying her bill at the supermarket suddenly realizes that she has forgotten to get the most important item on her list. Forgetting to purchase the item is an example of:

The tendency to reconstruct the past to fit the present is termed:

Maria was a 7-year-old girl who did very well in school. Unfortunately, one day Maria was in a bad accident, and her hippocampus was damaged. Maria still does extremely well in school. However, she has a hard time remembering everyday activities and things that happened to her in the past. Maria is suffering from:

Rachel's fifteenth birthday is on Friday. Her mother and father ask her to choose between Olive Garden and Red Lobster for her birthday dinner. Rachel remembers that she more recently ate at the Red Lobster. Because of this, Rachel decides that she would like to go to Olive Garden for her birthday dinner. What type of memory did Rachel utilize in making her decision?

The process by which we transform what we perceive, think, or feel into an enduring memory is called:

In a typical collaborative memory experiment, participants first encode a list of words _____ and then some time later attempt to recall those words _____.

Damage to the hippocampus is LEAST likely to cause a 30-year-old male to forget:

In a retrieval-induced forgetting paradigm, the _____ actively works to suppress answers that compete with the target response.

After watching a program about the Revolutionary War, participants were more likely to associate electricity with Benjamin Franklin than Thomas Edison-even though this was not discussed in the program-due to:

Callie visited a dance club where the songs were "oldies but goodies." Although she had not gone dancing in more than 20 years, Callie remembered the lyrics to most of the songs. This was MOST likely because:

Someone who is shown a picture of Babe Ruth and then asked to complete the word "-ball" will be more likely to respond "baseball" than "football" or "basketball," illustrating the effects of:

Relative to semantic encoding, organizational encoding shows more activation of the upper left _____ lobe.

Categorizing information based on relationships among the items in a series to be remembered is the definition of:

When Paul studies for a psychology test, he tries to remember important terms by relating them to his past experiences and knowledge. He is using the strategy of:

Jorge uses semantic judgment in encoding new terms encountered in his biology class. MRI studies reveal that the part of his brain likely to be most active during this process is the:

Your friend tells you her phone number. Hearing, thinking about, and translating the phone number to place it in your memory is an example of which process?

_____ is the process by which memories become stable in the brain.