Exam 8: Memory

An attorney uses misleading questions to distort a court witness' recall of a previously observed crime.This best illustrates

The self-reference effect best illustrates the value of

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

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

Forming conscious mental images of the location of your bedroom door requires

A full week after Usha heard her mother read her a list of 12 different farm animals,Usha is most likely to remember the animals ________ of the list.

Passing an electric current through the brain during electroconvulsive therapy is most likely to disrupt

Shortly after hearing a list of items,people tend to recall the last items in the list especially quickly and accurately.This best illustrates

Retroactive interference involves the disruption of

A lasting physical change in the brain as a memory forms is called a

After absorbing the false suggestion that as children they became ill after eating spoiled egg salad,Dutch university students were less likely to eat egg salad sandwiches.Their behavior best illustrates the impact of

Which of the following outlines the sequence of the Atkinson and Shiffrin three-stage model of memory?

Repeating someone's name several times shortly after being introduced to that person is an effective strategy for

The serial position effect refers to the tendency to recall best the ________ items in a list.

Annika has difficulty forming long-term memories of classroom lessons because she can't focus her attention long enough to mentally grasp what is being taught.Annika most clearly demonstrates difficulty with

Becky cannot remember anything that happened during her adolescent or young adulthood years.Becky's memory difficulty illustrates

Especially when practice is distributed over time,retention is increased by

Brenda wants to improve her biology grades.This means she needs to improve her memory of the material covered in class.Which of the following is NOT something that she can do to improve her memory?

Alzheimer's disease begins with ________ and progresses into ________.

Rehearsal is to encoding as retrieval cues are to