Exam 6: Memory

Retrieval cue failure refers to the inability to recall long-term memories because of inadequate or missing retrieval cues.

Which of the following statements about schemas is TRUE?

Spacing your study sessions is to _____ as cramming the night before is to _____.

The Culture and Human Behavior box in your text describes developmental psychologist Qi Wang's investigation of the earliest memories of European American and Chinese and Taiwanese college students. Which of the following statements best summarizes Wang's findings?

Which of the following statements about Karl Lashley is TRUE?

Complete repression of all memories of abuse is most likely when the abuse has occurred on repeated occasions over the course of months or years.

Describe how each of the following explanations account for forgetting: decay theory, interference theory, and motivated forgetting.

Implicit memory is:

According to George Miller, the capacity of short-term memory is:

Janette was absolutely certain that she knew the name of the fundamentalist religious group involved in the standoff with the FBI in Waco, Texas, almost two decades ago, but she could not think of the name of the group. This is an example of:

Semantic information is information kept in short-term memory just long enough to be processed before being moved into long-term memory.

Which of the following is NOT a common strategy used to test for recall of information from long-term memory?

The semantic network model suggests that:

Because it is too painful to think about how his marriage fell apart due to his wife's infidelity, Russell decides that he will not remember anything about his marriage. Russell is trying to use _____, a form of motivated forgetting, to help ease his pain.

Identify the roles played by at least three brain structures involved in memory.

Compare and contrast the characteristics of suppression and repression, giving an example of each.

When you combine the research findings of Karl Lashley and Richard Thompson, the findings suggest that:

When prospective memory fails, it is almost always because of:

For his Eastern history class, Hamilton had to memorize a lengthy list of Chinese emperors. To do so, he imagined each of them sitting in a chair in a different room of his family home. Hamilton was using a technique called:

A long-lasting increase in synaptic strength that is associated with new memories or learning a new skill is: