Exam 6: Memory

The In Focus box in your textbook discussed H.M.'s ability to learn and retain a limited amount of knowledge of people who became famous after his surgery. This discovery showed that:

According to the stage model of memory:

In a cross-cultural study investigating first memories, European American college students usually reported first memories that were self-focused and that revolved around a specific event or experience.

Explain how encoding failure is implicated in everyday memory failures due to absentmindedness.

In the brain, complex memories are localized to one group of neurons in the frontal lobes.

In his pioneering studies of forgetting, Ebbinghaus was the first researcher to demonstrate how the misinformation effect, source confusion, and imagination inflation all contribute to imperfect memories.

In a study by University of Arkansas psychologist James Lampinen, participants listened to a story about a guy named Jack who performed some everyday activities, such as washing his car and taking his dog to the veterinarian for shots. In each scene, Jack performed some actions that were consistent with the script and some behaviors that were inconsistent with the script for the activity. When later tested for details of the story, participants were:

According to the discussion in the text, memories of the events immediately preceding a concussion or head injury are often forgotten because the injury:

Keisha is determined to ace her microbiology final. Which of the following strategies would be LEAST likely to improve her memory for the material covered in her microbiology textbook?

Which of the following is NOT one of the key brain structures involved in encoding and storing memories?

When Kate got home, Guy rummaged through the grocery sack, then said, "Kate, you forgot the dental floss and the coffee creamer! They were the last two things I told you to get! Don't you remember me saying that?" That Kate remembered to get the first items on the list is a pattern of remembering called:

Repressed memory therapy, or recovery therapy, refers to:

Working memory is the third memory stage and is also called long-term memory.

Professor Sheehan spent most of the class session lecturing on different aspects of memory, and ended by reminding her students of the test at the next class session. After her students shuffled out of the classroom, Professor Sheehan noticed a student's cell phone on a desk toward the back of the classroom. The student forgetting his cell phone is an everyday example of _____ that is most probably due to _____.

One strategy to increase the amount of information that can be held in short-term memory is to group related items together into a single unit. This strategy is called:

_____ is the process of retaining information in memory so that it can be used at a later time.

Which of the following is NOT one of the key brain structures involved in encoding and storing memories?

Define imagination inflation, and describe how it has been created experimentally.

Studies of H.M. and of patients with similar kinds of brain damage have demonstrated that the implicit and explicit memory systems seem to involve different areas of the brain.

The Enhancing Well-Being with Psychology section provides several techniques and suggestions to enhance your memory of information. Which of the following is one of those suggestions?