Exam 7: Human Memory

Natasha asks Oscar for directions to his house. When he tells her to turn on 4th Street, she asks what color the house is on the corner where she turns. Oscar is surprised that he actually knows the house is blue, since he never really thought about it. In this instance the house color was likely stored in Oscar's _____ memory.

Pseudoforgetting is information loss due to ineffective ​

The memory process of storage involves ​

As part of a memory test, Taryn was given a list of words that included dog, pail, and hate. Later, she recalled these words as pup, bucket, and loathe. Taryn's errors in recall suggest that she had encoded the original word list

Cierra is taking a test in geography and is trying to recall the capital of Turkmenistan. In answering this question, Cierra is largely relying on her _____ memory.

The fact that your memory for a specific event may be influenced by the amount of attention you pay to the event, the level at which you process information about the event, how you organize the information, and the amount of interference you experience BEST reflects which of the following unifying themes of your textbook?

A visit to your elementary classroom might help you remember more of the names of some of your classmates because you are ​

Animal studies show that manipulations that suppress neurogenesis lead to ​

Shayla is able to retain the vocabulary she learned in her first semester Spanish class after the class has ended. The main memory process that accounts for the fact that Shayla can hold information in her memory for extended periods of time is ​

Your friend recently got married and changed her last name to that of her husband's. You have difficulty remembering her new last name because of ​

Which of the following memory systems is referred to in your text as "working memory"?

Adan has been trying to recall the name of the musical artist who released the song that was #1 when he was 14. Adan feels somewhat frustrated because he is certain he knows the artist's name, but he just can't seem to recall it at this moment. Adan is experiencing something referred to as ​

Describe flashbulb memories, and discuss the evidence surrounding their accuracy.

Researchers who question the accuracy of repressed memories use evidence from studies of the _____ effect and source-monitoring errors.

Two students took a memory test that involved 20 nouns shown sequentially on a TV monitor. Mallory tried to think of rhymes for each word as it appeared on the monitor; Bailey tried to think of ways each word could be used in a sentence. Based on Craik and Lockhart's levels-of-processing theory, you should predict that ​

A student's set of expectations about how a college professor is supposed to act is an example of a

Maria is trying to recall the names of all 48 of the contiguous United States. She begins by naming the New England states, followed by the mid-Atlantic states, the states in the Southeast, the Midwest, the Southwest, and finally the states in the Pacific Northwest. Maria's pattern of recall illustrates the concept of ​

Information decays LEAST rapidly in _____ memory.

The function of sensory memory is to ​

When individuals are instructed to divide their attention between a memory encoding task and other tasks, their performance on the encoding task generally shows ​