Exam 6: Memory

Canadian researcher Donald Hebb is credited as having contributed one of the most influential physiological theories about memory.A key finding about physiological memory based on Hebb's work is:

Memories retrieved while under hypnosis are more accurate than memories retrieved while not under hypnosis,but persons who retrieve memories under hypnosis are far less reluctant to change their answers even when told that they may be wrong.

According to the semantic network model,it would take more time to answer "true" to which sentence?

When newer information interferes with the retrieval of older information,this is called:

Which of the following statements about flashbulb memories is false?

Loni is asked to memorize the letters I K T E A L N in no particular order.She memorizes them by reorganizing them into the words INK and LATE.This tactic is called:

Your teacher has given each student the name of a key figure in the history of psychology.Your assignment asks you to describe one significant contribution made by the psychology figure you selected.If your historical figure is Hermann Ebbinghaus,what contribution might you describe to the class?

Which of the following statements is true about retrieval?

____________ is defined as an active system that receives information from the senses,organizes and alters information as it stores it away,and then retrieves the information from storage.

Declarative memory can be divided into semantic memory and episodic memory.

The best analogy for the way long-term memory is conceptualized would be a:

People mistakenly use these two terms to mean the same thing: short-term memory and:

Activation of the receptors in the various sense organs by stimuli is called:

The reason that our ears have three semicircular canals is so that:

Forgetting related to long-term memory is most likely due to:

What makes Canadian Kent Cochrane's amnesia a fascinating case compared to other cases of amnesia?

Jessica took psychology in the fall semester and is now taking sociology.Several of the concepts are similar,and Jessica finds that she sometimes has trouble recalling some of the major psychological theorists.She keeps getting them confused with sociological theorists.Jessica's problem is most likely due to:

The term used to describe the capacity of long-term memory is:

In anterograde amnesia,memory for anything new becomes impossible,although infantile memories may still be retrievable.

Janie is taking an exam in her history class.On the exam there is a question that asks her to state and discuss the five major causes of the Trans-Caspian War (whatever that was!).Janie remembers four of them.She knows there is a fifth,but time is up.As Janie is walking down the stairs,all of a sudden,she remembers the fifth point,but it is too late.Janie had a problem with: