Exam 6: Memory-Part A

Faced with a tough decision regarding whether or not to end a long-term relationship,Naomi relies on her _____ memory to imagine the different outcomes associated with staying with or leaving her partner.

Your friend tells you her phone number.Hearing,thinking about,and translating the phone number to place it in your memory is an example of which process?

In a classic study of false memory by Loftus,research participants were asked to remember the time when they were little and got lost in a shopping mall.Although Loftus confirmed that this never actually happened to any of the participants,the false memory was implanted in about _____% of the participants.

Marion can recognize the faces of almost all of her high school classmates 50 years after graduation by retrieving the information from her:

After her surgery,Sona cannot remember anything that occurred in the hour leading up to the surgery in which she was anesthetized and rendered unconscious.This mild form of _____ amnesia is MOST likely due to the head injury preventing memory _____.

_____ is the process by which memories become stable in the brain.

Memories are:

Which statement accurately describes the results of a typical collaborative memory experiment?

Which definition BEST describes a retrieval cue?

In a typical collaborative memory experiment,participants who first encode a list of words by themselves and later attempt to recall those words in small groups form what is called the _____ group.

The visuo-spatial sketchpad is a subsystem of working memory that stores and manipulates:

_____ won a Nobel Prize for his research on memory in Aplysia.

Kelly is at a local bar having a drink.A young man starts flirting with her and approaches her.Kelly decides to tell him her number.He repeats the series of digits in his head over and over again until he has a chance to write it down.This process is known as:

Robert,a successful businessman,was in a terrible car accident.He now cannot remember any new pieces of information for more than a few seconds.However,he is able to remember everything before the accident perfectly clearly.Robert's condition is an example of:

A man and his son were watching Jeopardy on TV.The man correctly answered the questions in the category "World War II," and his son was impressed.The son then told his father that he remembered watching a program on World War II once at a friend's house.The man was using _____ memory,while the son was using _____ memory.

Blocking of memory is MOST prevalent in:

Forgetting that occurs with the passage of time is known as:

Recent evidence suggests that _____ memory may contribute to divergent creative thinking.

The impairment of memory for recently learned information by previously learned information is known as:

When Keith was asked to recall how he felt at the beginning of his current relationship with his wife,Joni,his recollections were more similar to his present-day feelings than they actually were at the time.This memory phenomenon is known as _____ bias.