Exam 8: Memory

In the study led by Elizabeth Loftus, two groups of observers were asked how fast two cars had been going in a filmed traffic accident. Observers who heard the vividly descriptive word "smashed" in relation to the accident later recalled

Conscious memories of facts and personal experiences are called ________ memories.

Ebbinghaus found that memorizing familiar words required much less effort than memorizing nonsense syllables. This best illustrates the advantage of

Students often remember more information from a one-semester course than from an intensive three-week course. This best illustrates the importance of

The occasional tip-of-the-tongue forgetting experienced by older adults can be best explained in terms of the greater difficulty older people have with

Encoding words based on the appearance of the word's letters involves

After watching a happy film, patients' happy emotion persisted even though they could not consciously recall the film. These patients had suffered damage to the

Which of the following best describes the typical forgetting curve?

Which of the following poses the greatest threat to the credibility of children's recollections of sexual abuse?

When people are asked to recall a list of words they had earlier memorized, they often substitute synonyms for some of the words on the original list. This best illustrates the effects of

The title of a song is on the tip of Gerard's tongue, but he cannot recall it until someone mentions the songwriter's name. Gerard's initial inability to recall the title was most likely caused by

Long-term potentiation refers to

Anterograde amnesia is the inability to

The happier Judie is, the more readily she recalls positive life experiences. This best illustrates that emotional states can become

Young adults have ________ working-memory capacity than children and ________ working-memory capacity than older adults.

Which of the following is most likely to be stored as an implicit memory?

Eyewitnesses to a crime often recall the details of the crime most accurately when they return to the scene of the crime. This best illustrates

Remembering how to solve a puzzle without any conscious recollection that you can do so best illustrates ________ memory.

Compared with formerly depressed people, those who are currently depressed are more likely to recall their parents as rejecting and punitive. This best illustrates

Dating partners who fell in love ________ how much they liked each other when they first met. Dating partners who broke-up ________ how much they liked each other when they first met.