Exam 8: Memory

You need to remember the phone number of the local pizza parlour,so you repeat the number to yourself until you have it entered in the telephone.What type of memory code was used to encode that information?

A psychologist is asking Nishi about the time she went on a helicopter ride with her dad (she NOT did).Although Nishi doesn't remember the event,the psychologist produces a picture of her on the helicopter with her dad,and asks her to try and remember it.After continued questioning about it over the course of four days,Nishi now responds as 25% of participants would.What will Nishi most likely say?

Ewa is trying to learn to sing a new song she has heard.Instead of trying to learn all the words to the song,she first sings the first verse over and over until she knows it,and then moves on to the second verse.This is an example of ___.

Ivy has just witnessed a car hit a parked car and then speed off.She quickly makes note of the licence plate and says it repeatedly in her head.What memory store would Ivy be using to rehearse the licence plate in her head?

Kelsea hasn't ridden a bike in years,but when her and her husband rent bikes in Jamaica,she easily balances,turns,and stops her bike.What type of memory is Kelsea using?

Dr.Smith firmly believes that students should be tested in the same room where class was routinely held.Evaluate Dr.Smith's opinion by describing the effect of context on retrieval.

Gretta is almost 60 years old now and aging in a healthy way.If the changes Gretta sees in her memory are average,which of the following memory abilities may show improvements with age?

Garrett has just reached that age where his memory functions will start to decline.How old is Garrett?

Which of the following is the most likely mechanism by which misinformation might impair a witness' memory for the actual events in a crime?

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.Just then another motorist pulls up to ask if she needs help.After declining his help,she starts to call the towing company but finds she NOT remember the number.Which of the following would most likely explain Mallory's memory lapse?

Which of the following is the most probable correlation coefficient a researcher is likely to find between a)scores on a measure of the accuracy of participants' flashbulb memories andparticipants' ratings of their confidence that their flashbulb memories are accurate?

___ disorders are disruptions in memory that lack a clear physical cause.

Alzheimer's disease is associated with low levels of the neurotransmitters

How are the concepts of strong emotions and rehearsal related to the likelihood of enhanced memory?

Which of the following is probably the most plausible explanation of source misattribution?

Explain the encoding specificity principle,and provide an example.

Which statement best captures the role of the hippocampus in memory?

Storing is the first step in the memory process and involves recoding information in the brain.

In a tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon,one feels like

The retrieval and recall of eyewitness memories depends largely on which of the following brain regions?