Exam 6: Section 2: Memory

You are in the hot seat on the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? game show. The question is "Who was the fourth President of the United States?" What form of memory will you use to answer this general knowledge question?

Information from the outside world that is associated with stored information and that helps bring it to mind is known as a(n) _____ cue.

A witness to a bank robbery was interviewed and asked to provide details about the suspect's race, age, facial characteristics, height, weight, and clothing. Sometime later, the witness was interviewed again and asked to provide additional details. Which would the witness be least likely to recall?

Defense attorneys often protest prosecutors' use of eyewitness testimony because:

The tendency to incorporate misleading information from outside sources into personal recall of events is called:

Memories lose specificity over time; a fact associated with the _____ of memory.

While taking her daily walk through the Central Park, Whitney suddenly has an overwhelming impression that she has taken this walk before, but can't remember the details of it. Whitney is experiencing:

In most people, the long-term memory store has:

Whenever Andrea goes to the library to study, she takes a Red Bull energy drink with her and drinks it while she studies. As the semester progresses, she notices that she does considerably better on an exam when she drinks a Red Bull during it. She MOST likely does better because of:

If you are in a good mood when you are studying for a test, you will remember the material better on the test day if you:

Recent research has suggested that _____ encoding subsequently results in the greatest recall of information.

Recall of when, where, and how information was acquired is called:

The store of auditory information that decays very rapidly is called _____ memory.

Professor Lopez always parks his car in the same garage. One morning, however, the garage was full and the professor had to park his car elsewhere. When he parked his car, he took special note of its new location. Nevertheless, that afternoon Professor Lopez spent a good bit of time wandering around his normal parking garage, confused as to where his car was. The professor was experiencing:

Sarah was at work in a gas station when it was robbed. Right before the robbery occurred, she spoke to a tall man with olive skin and a mustache. When being questioned about the suspects in the burglary, she said she was certain that the robber had olive skin and a mustache. In truth, however, he had no facial hair and fair skin. What is the psychological term for this false recollection?

Which statement summarizing research on whether training working memory skills improves cognitive performance on non-memory related tasks is true?

The inability to retrieve information acquired before a particular date, usually the date of brain trauma or surgery, is termed:

In a typical collaborative memory experiment, participants who first encode a list of words by themselves and later attempt to recall those words in small groups form what is called the _____ group.

Maria was certain she recognized the waiter at the restaurant, but in fact she had never seen him before. This type of memory misattribution is known as:

Danielle is playing Trivial Pursuit and is asked to name the title of a classic TV show based around castaways on an island. Danielle feels sure she knows the name and thinks the first initial is G, but she cannot come up with the answer. Danielle is experiencing: