Exam 7: Attention and Memory

Sergio tells Monica that his roommate goes to a lot of parties.After this conversation,Monica tells Genevra that Sergio's roommate drinks a great deal.Monica believes this about Sergio's roommate because:

In order for us to experience the world as a continuous stream of information,one experience is kept in the brain while we move to the next experience.This overlap is a function of:

Consider the many ways in which you could organize the books in your library.You could sort them into groups with the same color cover.You could alphabetize them by the authors' last names or by the titles of the books.You could also sort them into groups with common themes.Which of these ways of organizing your library would be most like the way in which memories are organized in long-term memory?

Raul saw a car crash on the way to campus.Yosep participated in a psychology experiment in which he saw a film of a car crash.How accurate would you expect these memories to be,given the research on event memory?

The idea that memory is distributed throughout the brain is called:

Storage in this memory system is brief and represents a sensory experience:

As a friend gives you her new address over the phone,you realize that you do not have a pen to write it down.Approximately how long do you have to find a pen before her address will vanish from your short-term memory?

False memories occur because:

Students frequently learn the Big Five personality model by using the acronym OCEAN,where each letter of the word corresponds to the first letter of one of the factors (openness,conscientiousness,extraversion,agreeableness,neuroticism).These students are using:

Jon is trying to remember his class schedule from last semester,but he keeps thinking of his current classes instead.This phenomenon is an example of which type of interference?

Marianna takes the bus to school every day.One morning,a different bus is used on her route.Marianna does not notice the change,even though her usual bus is blue and white and the new bus is green and black.Marianna is showing:

Peter took an Italian class in college,but forgot much of what he knew.Before his honeymoon to Italy,he took another class so that he could get along while there.If he learns information more quickly this time around,you would say that _____ is helpful because it results in _____.

Even though they probably look at coins on a daily basis,most people are unlikely to be able to correctly identify which coin is a real quarter from an array of possible quarters because:

Memory requires attention.If you want to remember something well,it is best to _____ because _____.

Recent research suggests that negative memories may be erased through:

Many movies involve product placement.For example,the main character in a movie may drink only Dr.Pepper.Companies pay for product placement because they assume that it increases the likelihood that audience members will later buy the product.If a person's shopping is unconsciously influenced by the appearance of a product in a movie,this effect is likely due to existence of the item in:

Yelizaveta is talking to one of the caterers setting up for her sister's wedding.While Yelizaveta is answering her cell phone,a different member of the catering staff takes over.When Yelizaveta turns back to the conversation,she completely fails to notice that she is now talking to a different person.Yelizaveta is experiencing:

Remembering how to ride a bike is an example of which type of memory?

When Jon visits his grandmother's house,he always thinks about his childhood.Something about the way her house smells triggers the memory.This phenomenon is referred to as:

Short-term memory: