Exam 8: Memory

When you mentally rearrange the furniture in your bedroom before physically moving it,you are using ___.

Nico was involved in a motor vehicle accident and is unable to form new memories.Nico is suffering from ___.

The risk for acquiring Alzheimer's disease is greater in men who ___ and women who ___.

Match the appropriate terms in the left column to the definitions in the right column.

Daria usually "crams" for tests the night before they are given.Jun-suh generally studies each of his courses for about 45 minutes each night throughout the term.Daria relies on ___,whereas Jun-suh uses ___.

When you first learn to drive a car,you may have had to think about every step in the driving process.Now,after driving for five years,you find that you are usually able to drive without thinking about it.Initially driving required ___ processing,now it requires ___ processing.

As Mishti is driving home from the university,she remembers she promised her mother she would stop at the store and pick up milk and bread.This is an example of ___ memory.

A ___ code would be used to represent the meaning of an event.

Having done too many alcoholic shots that night,Deanna barely remembers her twenty-first birthday.That is,her ___ memory for this event is sketchy.

What happens in proactive interference?

Which statement below describes the brain basis of memory most accurately?

The experience of NOT being able to recall a memory but feeling like it is just on the edge of consciousness is called

Owen has trouble remembering a friend's new phone number; he keeps recalling the old number instead.Completing a rental application,Pippa finds she can't recall one of her previous addresses,as she's had several addresses since.Owen is experiencing ___ interference; Pippa is experiencing ___.

Although some empirical support has been found for the cognitive benefits of playing computer games for the aging population,much more empirical support has been found for the cognitive benefits of

Long-term potentiation is associated with the neurotransmitter ___,common in the brain's ___ synapses.

Describe how hypnosis might be one means of exposing individuals to memory distortions due to misinformation.

What kind of amnesia occurs when someone can't remember events from the past?

Which of the following is the most accurate description of the relationship between the information-processing and connectionist models of memory?

Your text describes a study in which 200-word poems were memorized more quickly than were 200-word prose passages,which in turn were memorized more quickly than were 200 nonsense syllables.That participants memorized poetry more quickly than prose may reflect the sound features one finds in poetry,such as rhyme and metre.Poetry,then,may allow one to take advantage NOT only of meaning,but also of distinctive ___ codes when trying to memorize it.

Lucia hasn't been swimming in years,but when she falls out of the canoe at the cottage she easily stays afloat.What type of memory is Lucia using?