Exam 6: Memory-Part A

A waitress' brain is studied in an fMRI while she mentally engages in remembering the food and drink orders or a table of six virtual people.Most likely,the MRI will reveal which area of the frontal lobe to be the MOST active?

An fMRI is conducted as a person is primed with a visual word cue.The next time the person sees the cue,a second fMRI MOST likely will reveal _____ activation in the _____ lobe relative to the first time the cue was presented.

Research by Hermann Ebbinghaus and others demonstrated that:

Information can be kept for hours,days,weeks,or years in the _____ memory store.

The advantage of having a flexible memory that can recombine past events to envision possible futures facilitates which memory sin?

Tony has spoken Italian since he was 5 years old.In his high school Spanish class,he regularly replaces Spanish words with Italian words.Tony is experiencing:

Which statement BEST describes a benefit of transience?

Kredlow and Otto (2015)asked undergraduates at Boston University who lived near the Boston Marathon site to recall their memories of the 2013 bombing.A minute later,students read an unrelated story that was either positive,negative,or neutral.A fourth group of students did not read a story (the control group).A week later,the students were again tested on their memories of the bombing.Compared with the control group,which statement MOST accurately summarizes the results?

The _____ is highly involved in the formation of flashbulb memories.

Which statement BEST describes how bias affects memories?

Jessica Li held up three rows of four letters on a poster board to her high school class for a fraction of a second.She then removed it and immediately asked the class to name the 12 letters they had just been shown.Which memory store is being tested?

The _____ coordinates the subsystems of working memory along with the episodic buffer.

Three weeks ago,Sandra came home to find an armed robber in the house.When she walked in the door,the man pushed past her and fled the premises.Sandra's sister,Amy,was unloading groceries from the car and said she thought the man had wavy black hair.When Sandra goes in to view a lineup,the man who robbed her is in the lineup.However,Sandra picks a similar man who has wavy black hair instead of the robber's light brown hair.Her mistake illustrates the concept of:

Jessica Li held up three rows of four letters on a poster board to her high school class for a fraction of a second.She then removed it and immediately asked the class to name the 12 letters they had just been shown.Based on previous research,about how many letters would you expect individual students to recall?

Prospective memory involves remembering:

Superior recall of a scenario is often observed when the scenario:

Trying to recall an event and successfully recalling one are:

Loftus conducted a classic study of false memory in which a false memory of _____ was implanted into the minds of participants.

People with damage to their _____ lobe are MOST prone to memory misattribution.

Long-term memory can be broken up into two broad types: memory that requires conscious recall,referred to as _____ memory,and memory that does not require conscious recall,or _____ memory.