Exam 6: Memory

Studies with amnesia patients who have sustained brain damage similar to that of the patient known for years as H.M. have shown that:

According to the working memory model developed by British psychologist Alan Baddeley, the visuospatial sketchpad is the component that is specialized for spatial or visual material, such as remembering the layout of a room or city.

In a study in which participants were asked to recall details about a psychology professor's office, many participants erroneously remembered objects that were not in the office but that did fit their schema of a typical professor's office.

The misinformation effect is:

During the LAST stages of Alzheimer's disease, the most common symptoms are:

How did psychologist Karl Lashley search for the engram, and why did his research fail to locate it?

British psychologist and memory researcher Alan Baddeley developed:

According to In Focus: H.M. and Famous People, H.M. retained the ability to form new explicit memories.

Discovering a major problem at work, Doug called Joan and discussed the problem with her at length. A few minutes later, his coworker Latesha called him, and Doug told Latesha about the problem. Later, Doug told a friend that Joan had said that fixing the problem would cost $10,000. But later when he looked at his handwritten notes of the two phone conversations, Doug discovered that Latesha, not Joan, had actually made the remark. The contradiction between what really happened and Doug's memory can best be explained by:

How did researchers demonstrate that the implicit memory system seemed to be functional in the famous patient known for years as H.M.?

What is the "lost-in-the-mall" technique?

Visual sensory memory is to auditory sensory memory as _____ is to _____.

Josh's mother sends him to the store to pick up a number of grocery items. Upon arriving home, she notices that Josh remembered to buy the first few items on her list, but apparently forgot to get the last few items she asked him to buy. Remembering the first items in a list is called the primacy effect.

Lisa went to a wedding where folk music was played rather than the traditional wedding march when the bride walked down the aisle. Later, Lisa distinctly remembers humming along to "Here Comes the Bride." Lisa's memory distortion is most probably due to:

Much of what we learn is forgotten very quickly, but eventually the rate of forgetting levels off.

Researchers hypothesized that cultural differences in the characteristics of earliest autobiographical memories might be related to cultural differences in:

To help remember the key terms that describe Pavlov's conditioning a dog to salivate to a bell, Joshua vividly imagined that he was an experimental subject in Pavlov's laboratory and that Dr. Pavlov was conditioning him to salivate. Joshua used _____ to help encode the information into long-term memory.

Suppression is to _____ as repression is to _____.

The hippocampus and medial temporal lobe transfer newly encoded memories to long-term memory.

According to the discussion in your text, why did Karl Lashley fail to find evidence for the specific location of the engram?