Exam 14: Human Memory Part 2

In anterograde amnesia,

Elliot is trying to memorize a speech for one of his classes. He stands in different locations in his apartment and reads each line of the speech out loud. Later, when he is in front of his classmates, he visualizes a walk through his apartment, and he is able to successfully recall the entire speech. Elliot's memory strategy BEST illustrates the mnemonic device known as

Remembering to perform actions in the future involves

Overlearning material will

At Debbie's 20th high school reunion, her old friends talk about the time Debbie tripped in the cafeteria and spilled her lunch tray full of spaghetti all over the captain of the football team. Debbie enjoys hearing the story, but claims to have no memory of the event. Most likely her lack of a memory of the event is the result of

Memory involves the processes of ____________________, or the formation of a memory code, ____________________, or the maintenance of the information already in memory and ____________________, the recovery of information from memory.

Sabrina forms an image of her dog, wearing a formal dress, and foaming at the mouth. She is hoping that this interactive image will help her remember to pick-up dog food, her dry cleaning, and shaving cream for her son. Sabrina's strategy illustrates the use of

Craig is being introduced to the members of the fraternity he has just joined. There are 15 members who he has not met before, and once the introductions are over, he finds he can only remember the names of the first three people and the last two people he was introduced to. He can't recall the names of any of the other members. The memory difficulty that Craig is experiencing is consistent with

The long-lasting increase in neural excitability at synapses of a specific neural pathway is referred to as

Psychologists who accept the accuracy of recovered memories of abuse are most likely to attribute the recent upsurge in recovered memories to

Damage to which of the following is MOST likely to cause deficits in long-term memory?

Evidence from recent studies indicates that the ____________________ may be critical to the formation of memories for learned fears and other emotional memories.

Compare the Atkinson and Shiffrin model of short-term memory with Baddeley's more complex model of short-term memory.

Following a serious car accident in which both Rick and Ron suffer head injuries, they both have amnesia. Rick cannot remember events that occurred before the accident, while Ron cannot remember events that occurred after the accident. Rick suffers from ____ amnesia and Ron from ____ amnesia.

Which of the following pairs of terms do NOT belong together?

Decay theory proposes that forgetting occurs due to the fact that memory traces fade over time; while interference theory argues that forgetting takes place because of competition from other material in long term memory.

Andre is demonstrating a new computer program to his roommate. As he shows his roommate how to open the application and create a file, Andre is largely relying on his

Trent was attacked by another motorist and his head was banged against his car several times during their brawl. Since that night he finds that he is constantly forgetting to run errands, and he often forgets appointments. Trent's memory difficulties are consistent with

Overlearning, or the continued rehearsal of material after you have first mastered it, is

Overconfidence in recalling information is MOST likely to be fueled by which of the following errors in thinking?