Exam 10: Memory

Mood-congruent memory and state-dependent memory are examples of:

According to the ________ theory of forgetting, information may get into memory, but it becomes confused with other information.

Jannell solved a crossword puzzle on Thursday, and by Saturday she doesn't recall the words in the puzzle. But Saturday night, when she is playing Scrabble with her brother, she unconsciously tends to form words that were in the puzzle. Jannell has ________ memory for some of the words.

________ is thought to be a biological mechanism of long-term memory.

According to Sir Frederic Bartlett:

According to the ________ theory of forgetting, one's original memory of an event can be erased by new and misleading information.

The ________ theory of forgetting proposes that memory fades with time and lack of use.

Which of the following is considered to be an implicit memory?

When the priming method is used for measuring implicit memory, a person typically reads or listens to information and is later tested to see whether the information affects performance on the same or another type of task.

It has been suggested that autobiographical memories cannot be formed until a child's self-concept has emerged.

The hippocampus is involved in the formation of declarative long-term memories.

"Use it or lose it" would most likely be associated with:

Irene swears that she was there the night her best friend got into a fight with her ex-boyfriend. It takes several of her friends to convince her that she was not. Which of the following likely made Irene's fake memory seem so real to her?

In order to help her music students learn the lines of the treble clef in musical notation, Susan has them learn the sentence "Every Good Boy Does Fine," in which the starting letter of each word represents the name of a note. This is an example of:

Given the current research on recovered memories, one should be skeptical if a person says that:

When six-year-old Sven's parents overhear him describing his third birthday party, they look at each other in surprise. Sven appears to remember that the birthday cake his father was baking burned and his aunt had to run out and buy one from a bakery, even though Sven was not present when those events occurred. Sven's memory illustrates the concept of _________.

The superiority of recognition over recall was demonstrated when participants, aged 17 to 74, were asked to recall and recognize the names of their high school classmates. Briefly describe the results of this study.

The parts of the brain involved in the storage of events are not well-developed until a few years after birth.

This true-false question requires recognition.

Irene swears that she was there the night her best friend got into a fight with her ex-boyfriend. It takes several of her friends to convince her that she was not. Which of the following likely made Irene's fake memory seem so real to her?