Exam 8: Memory

Infants do NOT show any indication of memory until they are almost 6 months old.

Jackie and Lola are studying lists of words.After ten minutes Jackie begins to write down all the words she remembers,and Lola makes a quick phone call before writing down the words she remembers.In examining the words that each remembered,it is likely that Jackie will show a ___ effect,and Lola will show a ___ effect.

Martin and his wife witness a car speed through an intersection and run a homeless person over.While waiting to talk to the police about the details,Martin mentions to his wife that the car was navy blue (but Martin was mistaken as the car was instead dark gray).If his wife is now more likely to remember the car as navy blue,what memory error is this?

According to the information-processing model of memory,which memory store holds a relatively permanent record of a seemingly unlimited number of pieces of information?

What did Lashley (1948)find that led to the conclusion that there is no specific place in the brain where memories reside?

Your text suggests that with respect to retrieval,sequential is to simultaneous as ___ is to ___.

How do the results of Lashley's classic research on maze memory among rats inform an evaluation of connectionist models of memory?

How is the connectionist model of memory different from the information-processing model?

Theodore is in the military and has recently returned from Afghanistan.Sometimes,if he sees a flash of light,Theodore NOT help but remember the flash of bombs going off during the war.This would suggest that Theodore encoded the bombings in Afghanistan using ___ coding.

Forgetting is best defined as

The hippocampus is important in the storage of ___ while the striatum is important in the storage of ___.

Working memory and short-term memory serve the same function.

According to your text,long-term potentiation plays a role in

Farvell suffered a stroke and as a result his hippocampus was destroyed.How will this affect Farvell's memory?

What feature of memory leads us to be vulnerable to faulty reconstructions of memory?

A stimulus reminding you of the information you need to retrieve from memory is termed a retrieval ___.

Tommy is repeating a series of digits in the order in which he heard an experimenter read them.The experimenter is testing Tommy's memory ___.

You desperately need to study French vocabulary.Your roommate recommends that you sit at your desk and turn off the TV and your phone.Is this good advice?

The fact that relearning is faster than original learning is very difficult for the ___ of forgetting to explain.

Alzheimer's disease is characterized by neurofibrillary tangles and senile plaques in the brain's ___.