Exam 8: Memory

While playing Trivial Pursuit,Jessica remembered that Wilfrid Laurier was Canada's first francophone prime minister.This type of memory of a piece of general historical knowledge is considered a ___ memory.

___ are knowledge structures that have been developed based on previous exposure to similar experiences.

Tommy is repeating a series of digits in the order in which he heard an experimenter read them.The experimenter is testing the capacity of Tommy's ___ memory.Tommy should be able to repeat about ___ digits correctly.

Recognition tasks are often harder than recall tasks.

When the conditions of testing are the same as the conditions that were present when learning occurred,memory is facilitated.This phenomenon is called

Semantic is to ___,as episodic is to ___.

Your text describes a study (Cahill et al.,1994)in which participants either received a tranquilizer or a placebo and heard either an emotional or a neutral story.The accuracy of participants' story recall was then assessed.Which alternative below correctly names and identifies the variables in this study?

In ___ amnesia,memory is lost for events preceding an injury or accident; in ___ amnesia,memory is lost for events following an injury or accident.

Yulia was having difficulty learning Spanish in university because she kept remembering the French vocabulary she studied throughout high school.Which type of interference might account for this difficulty?

The fact that people can do two different tasks at once (e.g.: visual and auditory)but NOT two of the same tasks at once (e.g.: two visual)suggests that

Infantile amnesia is defined as

Susan and her roommates want to order a pizza.She looks up the phone number of the pizza parlour and then asks everyone what they want on the pizza.When Susan goes to call the pizza parlour,will she remember the number? Why or why NOT?

Natasha is a graduate student who is replicating Lashley's work as part of her thesis.She first teaches rats a complex maze and then removes various parts of their brains.Finally,she tests them again on the maze to see how much they remember.If she replicates Lashley's results,what did she find?

Elaine was getting bombarded with telemarketer calls so she eventually decided to change to an unlisted phone number.She then had to tell everyone her new number,and she was surprised at how often she would automatically say the old number.What kind of forgetting is Elaine experiencing?

Some psychologists believe that test anxiety results in inferior performance on examinations because the negative thoughts accompanying the anxiety impede the retrieval of test-relevant information.This illustrates an application of the ___ theory of forgetting.

While on vacation,you and your friends are driving along a highway listening to the radio.Later,as you are driving on a winding road at night,you find the radio distracting and turn it off.What would explain your change in attitude to listening to the radio?

Which activity of memory involves recovery of information when it is needed?

The difference between retrograde amnesia and anterograde amnesia is that retrograde amnesia is ___ and anterograde amnesia is ___.

What is the difference between recall and recognition?

According to the information-processing model of memory,___is the first stage in which an image is retained by the brain for less than 1 second.