Exam 6: Section 2: Memory

In a classic memory study by Peterson and Peterson (1959), participants were given consonant strings to remember-such as DBX and HLM-and then were instructed to count backward from 100 by 3. After a variable amount of time (delay), the participants were asked to recall the consonant strings. Which statement accurately describes the results of the experiment?

Combining small pieces of information into larger clusters is known as:

If you correctly recall that William James founded the functionalist school of psychology, you are using your _____ memory.

José was about to introduce his girlfriend, Natalia, to a friend-but all of a sudden he could not remember his friend's name. This is known as:

Brittany states that she vividly remembers the day she turned 21. This is an example of a(n):

Short-term storage is to long-term storage as:

Bob has flashbacks to his service in Iraq, and sometimes he feels he remembers those days better than any days before or since. Bob probably feels this way because of memory:

Remembering to do things in the future is called:

As illustrated by the study in which people falsely remembered spilling punch all over the bride's parents at a wedding, _____ plays a large role in the formation of false memories.

When learning a new word, like "amygdala," Angie will remember it best if she:

Three weeks ago, Sandra came home to find an armed robber in the house. When she walked in the door, the man pushed past her and fled the premises. Sandra's sister, Amy, was unloading groceries from the car and said she thought the man had wavy black hair. When Sandra goes in to view a lineup, the man who robbed her is in the lineup. However, Sandra picks a similar man who has wavy black hair instead of the robber's light brown hair. Her mistake illustrates the concept of:

Yo-Yo Ma, a world-famous musician, left his multimillion-dollar cello in the trunk of a taxi. What might have caused him to forget something so important to him?

Frank remembers that Virginia Tech and Stanford played in the Orange Bowl by picturing cartoonish turkeys and cardinals hurling oranges at each other on South Beach. Which of the following brain regions would be LEAST involved in the encoding of this information?

Tony has spoken Italian since he was 5 years old. In his high school Spanish class he regularly replaces Spanish words with Italian words. Tony is experiencing:

The type of consolidation that occurs over a time scale encompassing years involves the transfer of memory from:

Memories are made by:

You are taking a biology class. During lecture, you listen, take notes, and think about how the information is related to you. These are examples of _____ information into memory. When you rehearse this information, you are facilitating _____. During a test, you must remember the information, which is called _____.

Sensory information is kept for a few seconds or less in:

After having spent half a day touring the Chicago Institute of Art, Emily had seen hundreds of paintings. To maximize her potential for remembering as many paintings as possible, she decides to categorize each painting depending on its artistic style: Neoclassical, Realistic, Romantic, Impressionist, Abstract, and so on. This method of memorization is called _____ encoding.

When attention is divided, what happens in the brain?