Exam 7: Attention and Memory

A psychologist who agreed with associative network theories would suggest that the best way to set up a computer hard drive to mimic human memory would be to organize the information into:

Most forgetting is due to ____________ not ____________.

Akila's brother asks her if she knows the names of the capitals of New Brunswick and Manitoba. She instantly knows that the capital of New Brunswick is Fredericton and she does not know the capital of Manitoba. Akila is using her ____________ memory to retrieve ____________ memories.

Research has found that guitarists have much larger motor cortices in the hemisphere controlling the hand that does the fingering. The most likely cause of this increase in brain area is that guitarists play so much that they:

Shannon has finished studying for her biology exam. To be sure that she really knows the material, she tests herself several hours after she finishes studying and then reviews any material that she could not easily recall. Shannon is using the mnemonic strategy of:

For days after Yuriko saw a horror film, she could not forget the scene that she had found most frightening. Yuriko's strong memory for the scary scene was produced in part by increased activity of receptors for norepinephrine. Norepinephrine is serving as a ____________ for Yuriko's memory.

According to the network of association theory, what words would come to mind when you hear the trigger word red?

Jed walks by a billboard advertising hamburgers on his way to get an afternoon snack. He had intended to get an ice cream cone, but instead orders French fries. According to the spreading activation model, the hamburger made Jed want French fries because:

Javier convinces Suzanne to go with him to the sequel of a science fiction movie that he loved. Though Suzanne does not like science fiction, she agrees to go because Javier has been raving about the original movie for years. The sequel is terrible, but Javier sincerely praises it on the way home. Javier's response to the movie represents:

Annie is thinking about where she will go for reading week She is also wondering where her roommate will decide to go. When Annie is thinking about her own reading week plans her medial prefrontal cortex ____________ activated. When she thinks about her roommate's reading week plans her medial prefrontal cortex ____________ activated.

In Treisman's model of visual attention, primitive features can be analyzed in parallel because:

After Itohan was in a serious car accident, she could remember everything that had happened to her before the accident but could not form any new memories. Itohan most likely has damage to her ____________, causing her to have ____________ amnesia.

Elaboration is an effective mnemonic strategy because the information learned is processed:

Colt is an excellent quarterback. One skill that contributes to his ability is that he sees the players not just as individuals, but as units that can be called on to make different plays. This skill enables him to process the game more efficiently and to hold more information about the game in his short-term memory. Colt is using the memory strategy of:

Cultural differences in change blindness indicate that:

Damage to the frontal lobes and limbic system can cause the dissociation of a visual image from the associated emotional content. This problem is thought to be the cause of:

When people look at faces of people of their own race there is more activation of the ____________ than when they look at faces of people of other races.

People listening to eyewitness testimony are likely to believe:

H.M. was a patient who, following surgery, had profound memory difficulties. The surgery involved the removal of parts of his temporal lobes, including his hippocampus. The reasons H.M. received the surgery was because of:

Aaron took French in grade 9, but he is now taking it again in his fourth year of university to fulfill requirements for his major. Based upon your knowledge of memory you could predict that the material would take ____________ in his university class as it did in his high school class.