Exam 6: Memory

Which technique is widely used by therapists to help clients recover lost childhood memories?

Sitting in a very noisy restaurant,you are able to screen out all the other conversations around you so you can listen to the friend with whom you are conversing.This is an example of __________.

Which of the following statements is true about semantic and episodic memories?

Hindsight bias is the process of altering memories of the past so that they are more in line with accurate information that is learned later-the Monday morning quarterback effect.

Shalissa has two exams today.One is in French and the other is in history.Last night she studied French before history.When she gets to her French test,all she can remember is history! Shalissa's memory is suffering from ____________.

Let's say you are a defense attorney and are defending a client on a murder charge.The victim was found in a dark alley.A witness had a glimpse of a shadowy figure standing over the body.The police thoroughly interrogate the witness and arrest a young man.The man has an alibi.There is no other evidence against him,except that of the witness.The witness is positive.What factors may lead you to doubt this strong testimony of the witness? Pretend you are the defense attorney and,with your knowledge of the problems with eyewitness testimony and memory,tell the jury why they should be doubtful of the witness.

Elaborative rehearsal is defined as the rote repetition of material in order to maintain its availability in memory.

The breakdown of which of the following seems to be responsible for the impaired ability to form new memories?

Recognition is the ability to match information with stored images or facts.

Pezdek and colleagues have found that false memories are more likely to be formed for implausible false events than for plausible ones.

According to Craik and Lockhart,we are most likely to remember information that we process at a __________level.

Believers in the information-processing model of memory are likely to agree that __________.

What type of stimuli did Hermann Ebbinghaus use in his memory experiments?

Someone asks you to name the twenty-second president of the United States,but you can't remember.To aid your memory,the person then tells you that the president's name is the same as that of a large city on Lake Erie.Upon hearing the hint,you instantly realize that Grover Cleveland is the answer.In this situation,the hint acted as a(n)______.

H.M. ,a famous amnesiac,gave researchers solid information that the ______________ was important in storing new long-term memories.

Jamal is trying to buy something over the phone.He asks his partner to read him his credit card number.However,when he tries to repeat it to the sales clerk on the other end of the line,he can't remember all the numbers.Jamal is coming up against __________.

Bethany is trying to focus on a conversation across the room during a party she is attending.This is because she thinks she heard her name above the din of the conversation.Her ability to hear her name is due to the mechanism of __________.

Memories retrieved while under hypnosis are no more accurate than memories retrieved while not under hypnosis,but persons who retrieve memories under hypnosis are far more reluctant to change their answers even when told that they may be wrong.

The portion of memory that is more or less permanent is called ______.

Studies have found that the best way to overcome the tip-of-the-tongue effect is to _____________.