Exam 8: Memory

The cerebellum and basal ganglia play an important role in the processing of ________ memories.

A measure of your memory in which you need to pick the correctly learned answer from a displayed list of options is known as a measure of

Using the mnemonic ROY G. BIV to remember the colors of the rainbow in the order of wavelength illustrates the use of

Elevated levels of stress hormones most clearly contribute to developing

The use of acronyms to improve one's memory of unfamiliar material best illustrates the value of

Deep and shallow processing refer to different types of

When Tony is in a bad mood, he interprets his parents' comments as criticisms. When he's in a good mood, he interprets the same types of parental comments as helpful suggestions. This best illustrates that our emotional states influence the process of

Philippe has just completed medical school. In reflecting on his years of formal education, he is able to recall the names of all his instructors except the fifth-grade teacher who flunked him. According to Freud, his forgetting illustrates

Several months after watching a science fiction movie about spaceship travel and alien abductions, Steve began to remember that he had been abducted by aliens and personally subjected to many of the horrors portrayed in the movie. His mistaken recall best illustrates

Psychologists on both sides of the controversy regarding reports of repressed and recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse agree that

Research reports of repression and recovered memories indicate that

We are more likely to recall adjectives if asked how well they describe us than if asked how well they describe someone else. This illustrates

On the phone, Dominic rattles off a list of 10 grocery items for Kyoko to bring home from the store. Immediately after hearing the list, Kyoko attempts to write down the items. She is most likely to forget the items

Whenever he feels sexually jealous, David is flooded with painful memories of instances when he thought his girlfriend was flirting with other men. David's experience best illustrates

A year and a half after directly experiencing a San Francisco earthquake, people had very accurate recall of where they had been and what they were doing at the time of the earthquake. Their recall best illustrates ________ memory.

Which test of memory typically provides the fewest retrieval cues?

Although Maria can encode and consciously recall new information, she is unable to consciously recall events that happened prior to the brain damage that she suffered as an adolescent. Maria's memory difficulty most clearly illustrates

Peterson and Peterson asked people to count aloud backward after they were presented with three consonants. This study finds that ________ memories will quickly disappear without active processing and rehearsal.

Memory acquisition is to memory retention as ________ is to ________.

Iconic memory is to echoic memory as ________ is to ________.