Exam 8: Memory

Emotion might enhance memory by different mechanisms.Which mechanism below is correctly matched with an example?

The inability to recall information that was previously encoded is known as ___.

Ximena can't remember anything about the first several minutes immediately following a car crash in which she was injured.Ximena is experiencing ___ amnesia.

Damian's wife lists off a dozen baby names that she likes,but then the doorbell rings and Damian must sign for a package.If he closes the door and is asked at that moment to remember the baby names,how is he likely to do?

Explicit memory is to ___ memory,as implicit memory is to ___ memory.

Using the computer metaphor described in the Chapter ,identify the component that is analogous to the hard drive and its characteristics.

For the ___ theory of forgetting to make any sense,it must assume that a physical trace is laid down in the nervous system when a memory is formed.

Which of the following activities is correctly identified as either an automatic processing task or an effortful processing task?

Compare prospective and retrospective memory and how it is affected by the aging process.

Clarice presses <Ctrl-S> on her keyboard to save a document she has been editing.A file is then created on her computer's hard drive.Clarice's action is most nearly analogous to the memory activity of ___.The computer's hard drive is like ___ memory in the three-stage memory model.

Emilie is one of several witnesses to a store robbery and is asked to wait to talk to the detective and give her account of what happened.As she is waiting,she can't help but overhear the witness who was ahead of her in line describe the mugger as a tall dark-haired man with an anchor tattoo.If Emilie is now more likely to remember the mugger in a similar way,what memory error is this?

Age-related declines in memory function begin at what age?

Amelia remarks that she needs to learn her text's section on the structures of the brain for an upcoming test.Brian responds that he couldn't remember the function of the hippocampus on a test the preceding day.With respect to the three activities of memory described in the Chapter ,Amelia is referring to ___,and Brian is referring to ___.

The model of memory that suggests that new information is integrated with previously stored pieces of relevant information is called the parallel distributed-processing model,or the ___.

Sydney was having difficulty learning Spanish in university because she kept remembering the French vocabulary she studied throughout high school.Sydney's difficulty in remembering Spanish is due to ___ interference.

There is ample evidence suggesting that LTP plays a role in long-term memory.Which of the following is included in this category of evidence?

Chania is in a play and is just about to go on stage.She starts thinking about her first line and how she will say it.What memory store would Chania be using to practice her lines in her head?

Retrieval cues help people to remember information they are searching for..

Men and women who have Alzheimer's disease differ with respect to their personalities in that men tend to be more ___ and women tend to be more ___.

To which of the following is working memory most nearly analogous?