Exam 6: Learning

The textbook describes the case of Henry Molaison, also known as H. M. After brain surgery, H. M suffered severe anterograde amnesia. This means that H. M. had difficulty:

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, psychologist George Sperling conducted important studies of _____ memory.

The amygdala is to the hippocampus as _____ memory is to _____ memory.

The textbook suggests that to study smarter and improve memory, one should 1) organize information, 2) give oneself time, 3) make connections, and 4) get some rest. Justify this advice making explicit reference to such concepts as elaborative encoding and distributed practice.

Clarice presses the Ctrl and S keys on her keyboard to save a document. A file is then created on her computer's hard drive. Clarice's action is MOST analogous to the memory activity of:

What does Ebbinghaus' forgetting curve demonstrate about the way people forget material over time?

In one study described in the text, a sample of college students studied English-Swahili word pairs. Half the students took a practice test before studying the pairs a second time. The remaining students simply restudied the words. Lastly, all students' memory for the word pairs was assessed a week later on a final exam. In this study, the practice test group is the _____ group. Students' final exam memory score is the _____ variable.

Describe the case of Henry Molaison, also known as H. M. What did H. M.'s case tell psychologists about the role of the hippocampus in memory? Identify the role of two of these structures in memory: a) cerebellum; b) amygdala; c) prefrontal cortex.

Identify and describe two of the mnemonic devices reviewed in the textbook. Explain how these devices capitalize on chunking and elaborative rehearsal to improve memory.

Angel is considering how best to run several errands between his last class in the afternoon and the beginning of his shift at work 2 hours later. In his mind's eye, he sees a mental map of the town. This map helps Angel factor distances, traffic, and so on into his plans. This map is in his working memory component called the:

Which statement is the BEST reason for viewing classical conditioning as a type of implicit memory?

A research participant is required to report as much of a poem as he can remember immediately after having read the poem once. The greatest number of recall errors should occur for lines:

George Sperling conducted a study in which he varied the interval between the presentation of a letter matrix and an auditory recall cue. Sperling measured the proportion of letters participants could recall from the matrix. Which statement regarding this study is False?

How does short-term memory differ from sensory memory?

The first attempts to scientifically study forgetting were made by the psychologist named:

In one study described in the textbook, Dewar et al. (2012) examined participants' retention of newly-learned material. Some participants experienced a 15-minute period of waking rest after learning the material. Other participants played a game after learning. What did Dewar et al. find and why?

Owen has trouble remembering a friend's new phone number; he keeps recalling the old number instead. Completing a rental application, Pippa finds she can't recall one of her previous addresses, as she's had several addresses since. Owen is experiencing _____interference. Pippa is experiencing ____ interference.

When one uses the term "remembering" in day-to-day life, one is making reference to the memory process of:

The majority of participants in Loftus's "lost in the mall" studies remembered events that never happened.

Spacing study sessions over long periods of time with breaks in between is called: