Exam 8: Memory

Ron receives some stock tips when he is slightly drunk at an office party.Based on the notion of state-dependent memory,what might you predict regarding the likelihood that Ron will recall the tips the following week?

Discuss why episodic memories are so slow to develop in children?

One major reason why our later memory of events may be flawed is that

If memory was analogous to a movie,recording would be to ___ as replaying would be to ___.

Label the following structures involved in eyewitness memory.

A witness is unable to recall much about a crime when she is questioned in the police station.A police officer leads the witness back to the scene of the crime.She is now able to supply more information than she could before.Which of the following is the most likely explanation for her enhanced recall?

Cole knows that the capital of Newfoundland is St.John's.This is an example of a(n)___ memory.

It is likely that ___ interference occurs when new misinformation distorts older,more accurate information.

In ___ interference,information learned earlier disrupts the recall of information learned more recently; in ___ interference,recently learned information disrupts the recall of information learned earlier.

Areas of the primary visual cortex are only activated in ___ memories.

Lila broke her leg last summer and as such has NOT been able to ride her bicycle.After Lila's leg heals,she finds she does NOT have to relearn how to ride her bike.This is because riding a bike involves ___memory,which is a subdivision of ___ memory.

In the early work of Karl Lashley,it was determined that memory resides in one central storehouse within the brain.

The saying "Use it or lose it" is most applicable to the ___ theory of forgetting.

Mrs.Alvarez is 70.She exhibits memory loss but shows no other cognitive deficits.How would you identify her memory disorder,and why?

Explain the role of the hippocampus in the formation and storage of eyewitness memories.

To encode verbal information,we tend to use a ___ code; to encode non-verbal information,we tend to use a ___ code.

Make a distinction between retrograde and anterograde amnesia.

Fiona is calculating the tip for her meal in her head,and doing so requires her to hold some numbers in place while she manipulates others.What part of her brain will be especially active during this type of task?

Name and describe two groups of memory disorders.

Katrina has sustained damage to her hippocampus because of a skiing accident.What part of her memory is most likely affected as a result?