Exam 7: Human Memory

In a study of psychiatric patients hospitalized for post-traumatic or dissociative disorders,one-third of those who reported childhood abuse had experienced complete amnesia for the abuse at some point in their lives.

Outline some strategies that can be used to improve everyday memory.

Mia was trying to figure out how to fit the box that contained her new computer into the trunk of her car.She mentally manipulated the position of the box,trying to figure out a way to make it fit.Based on Baddeley's model of working memory,Mia was utilizing

____ would best explain your behavior if as you are reading this question you cannot think of the correct term and you say to yourself,"I can't believe I forgot this" when in reality you never knew the answer in the first place.

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

In studies of long-term memory,researchers have found that

Reality monitoring occurs when a memory from one source is misattributed to another source.

General knowledge that is NOT tied to the time when the information was learned is contained in

Empirical evidence indicates that attention facilitates encoding and is highly selective.

You are observing another student reading in the cafeteria.There are several distracting sounds,but the individual does not look up or otherwise appear to notice any of the disruptions.Based on Lavie's view of the attention filter,you should conclude that the person is reading ____ material because external information is being filtered ____.

Tyler witnessed an automobile accident and heard one of the bystanders casually mention that the driver was probably intoxicated.Even though the driver had not been drinking,and had never crossed the center line,Tyler tells the police officer who is investigating the accident that the car had been "weaving all over the road." Tyler's faulty recall illustrates

Research by Elizabeth Loftus on the ____________________ effect has shown that the recall of an event can be altered by the introduction of misleading post-event material.

The profound anterograde amnesia that H.M.experienced after undergoing surgery to control his epilepsy suggests that

Penfield's studies suggest that long-lost memories can be elicited through electrical stimulation of the brain.This suggests the possibility that forgetting may be a matter of

This multiple-choice question is best described as an example of a(n)____________________ measure of retention.

The tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon can be best described as an instance of

Nondeclarative memory appears to involve structures such as

Strategies designed to enhance memory through the use of either verbal cues or visual imagery to enrich encoding are termed

____ has occurred when the initial processing of information is similar to the type of processing required for retention.

Your psychology professor asks you for the name of the individual who started the behavioral approach to the study of psychology.To answer this question correctly,you need to rely on your