Exam 8: Memory

After having seen many pictures of the Lincoln Monument during his lifetime, Mr. Adams mistakenly recalled that he had actually visited the site. This best illustrates

The process of encoding refers to

The smell of freshly baked bread awakened in Mr. Hutz vivid memories of his early childhood. The aroma apparently acted as a powerful

According to the serial position effect, when recalling a list of words you should have the greatest difficulty with those

Judy is embarrassed because she momentarily fails to remember a good friend's name. Judy's poor memory most likely results from a failure in

The network that processes and stores explicit memories includes the

Memories of newly learned ________ are most likely to be disrupted by damage to the right hippocampus. Memories of newly learned ________ are most likely to be disrupted by damage to the left hippocampus.

Recalling a visual scene of last month's party and holding it in working memory would be most likely to activate the

When George Sperling visually displayed three rows of three letters each for only one-twentieth of a second, research participants

The self-reference effect best illustrates the value of

When Gordon Bower presented words grouped by category or in random order, recall was

Mr. Nydam suffers amnesia and is unable to remember playing golf several times each week on a particular course. Yet the more he plays the course, the more his game improves. His experience illustrates the need to distinguish between

Consciously repeating the name of a new classmate you want to remember illustrates

Although you genuinely enjoyed studying hard for a biology exam, during the test you are feeling frustrated and irritable because you can't recall the answer to a series of fairly easy factual questions. What techniques could you use to effectively remember the information previously learned?

Stressful life experiences such as being raped are not likely to be

By consciously rehearsing to-be-learned facts in many separate study sessions throughout the semester, you are most clearly taking advantage of

The eerie feeling of having been somewhere before is an example of

Which of the following is central to the processing of procedural memories?

To help resolve the controversy over reports of repressed memories of sexual abuse, the major psychological and psychiatric associations suggest that

Most people misrecall the sentence, "The angry rioter threw the rock at the window" as "The angry rioter threw the rock through the window." This best illustrates the importance of