Exam 7: D: Memory

Greg is a chess master and has an amazing memory for chess plays and positions on the board.If Greg also was in your psychology class and was taking this test,how would you expect him to perform?

Godden and Baddeley (1975)found that if you study on land,you do better when tested on land,and if you study underwater,you do better when tested underwater.This finding is an example of

Vinny studied hard last week for his upcoming chemistry exam,and when he goes to study again the night before the exam,he finds it does not take him as long to relearn and remember the material.This example demonstrates which of the following concepts?

Implicit memory is to __________ as explicit memory is to __________.

A recognition memory task is often easier than a recall memory task because

Lamont is walking through his local health and nutrition store.An employee comes up and asks if he needs any assistance.Lamont asks what the most effective and cheapest memory-enhancing herbal remedy they have is.If the employee answers this question based on the evidence from controlled,scientific research,he or she would recommend

Which of the following examples represents the shallowest processing as described by Craik and Lockhart?

Long-term potentiation tends to occur at synapses where the sending neuron releases the neurotransmitter __________ into the synaptic cleft,resulting in enhanced learning.

Chunking is a means of

In the levels of processing model of memory,information that gets processed at a __________ level (such as accessing the meaning of a word or phrase)is more likely to be retained longer and form a stronger memory than information that is processed at a __________ level (such as the visual characteristics of a word).

Jenny participated in a psychology experiment where she had to study lists of hundreds of nonsense syllables,such as BIM and KAG.After a few days,how much information would Jenny be expected to remember?

Apart from severe loss of cortex in areas associated with language and memory,what other change is evident in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease?

Unlike explicit memory,implicit memory

Research on implanted memories and children has indicated that

Which of the following individuals studying for a test will be able to remember information the best?

Which memory system has an unlimited capacity and can keep information for hours or decades?

The first day of class,Sheila asked her professor what the best way to learn and remember the material for the course would be.The professor responded,"Focus on identifying and understanding the meaning of the important terms and concepts." The instructor is advocating a __________ level of processing.

__________ is retention of memory for some period of time.

"The effectiveness of memory retrieval is directly related to the similarity of cues present when the memory was encoded to the cues present when the memory is retrieved." What concept does this statement describe?

The research on state-dependent learning would suggest that if you were really happy when you were learning math,you should be __________ when taking the math exam to do well.