Exam 8: Memory

Dayyan felt depressed for much of the semester because he was working quite a bit and applying to graduate school.During final exams,he became ecstatic when he heard that he was accepted to the school of his choice.Given state-dependent memory,how will this change in emotional state impact his performance?

You are a forensic psychologist.A local police department seeks your expert opinion regarding the value of hypnotizing crime scene witnesses.What might you tell them?

Alba is imaging now she will remodel her house.She knows she wants to knock out a kitchen wall to open the dining area,and then she knows that she will have a magnificent view out the front window.What memory store would Alba be using imagine her remodelled house?

Ghania is writing a paper for her graduate psychology class on the key neurotransmitters involved in learning and memory.What two neurotransmitters would Ghania's paper focus on?

Which of the following statements is true regarding automatic processing?

Tevya was involved in a motor vehicle accident and is unable to remember anything about the three weeks before her accident.Tevya is suffering from ___.

Information may last for ___ seconds in sensory memory.The capacity of sensory memory is ___.

Which activity of memory involves recording new information in our brain?

If memories are stored as a network of connections based on our experiences,what would Elena,a dairy farmer,most likely think of if she was presented with the word 'milk'?

As you are watching television,you see an advertisement for pizza.The phone number for the pizza parlour has the same area code as your number and the rest of the number is advertised as EAT-PIZZA.Two weeks later you and your friends decide to order pizza and you immediately remember that number.If you did NOT rehearse the number,what type of coding must you have used to allow you to remember it?

The difference between automatic processing and effortful processing is that automatic processing ___ and effortful processing ___.

According to Freud,repressed memories are lost forever and NOT be retrieved.

What phenomenon is evidence that our long-term memories are linked in a network of associations?

After his surgery,Henry Molaison (H.M.)suffered from retrograde amnesia.

Dr.Voorhies tells his elderly patients to try brainteasers and crossword puzzles to help stave off memory decline.Dr.Washington,by contrast,encourages his elderly patients to maintain a routine of physical exercise to counter memory loss.How might you evaluate the advice of these two doctors considering empirical research?

Dr.Greco's research investigates the neurological foundation for infantile amnesia.What brain structure would his work focus on?

The encoding of verbal and non-verbal information differs in that while verbal information uses a ___ code,non-verbal information uses a ___ code.

Dr.Escovedo measures the effort participants are devoting to a task using the product of heart rate and blood pressure.Dr.Escoveda would likely find a ___ correlation coefficient if the participant were doing an effortful processing task and a ___ correlation coefficient on an automatic processing task.

While driving to school,Mallory's car broke down.She called her father on her cell phone and he told her the phone number of a towing company to call.She keeps repeating the number over and over until she could place the call.Which type of coding is Mallory using?

When we learn new information,what steps lead to the transmission of the information in the brain?