psy 1113 chapter 7

Nika notices her friend's necklace is a locket and begins to think about the picture of her baby sister inside her own locket at home. What level of processing is taking place in Nika's mind?

Deep

Nicki has dance lessons every Monday with a girl named Jenifer. One day Nicki sees Jenifer at the mall and the girls exchange knowing smiles, but neither can remember the other's name. What principle explains this phenomenon

Encoding Specificity principle

Marcy is beginning to recall instances of sexual abuse from her childhood, but has not had memory of such instances for the last 15 years of her life. What is a possible explanation for such an occurrence?

Her mind could have repressed the memories.

When Sarah looks at her wedding photos she smiles, gets a warm fuzzy feeling in her stomach, and begins to tear up as she remembers that day. When brain structure might be most closely involved with Sarah's memory of her wedding day?

Hippocampus

Marcus's first test question reads, "What color is gram positive bacteria?" To remember the answer he thinks back to a picture of a purple bacterial cell wall in his lab manual and writes down purple. Marcus has just used what to help him answer the test question correctly?

Imagery

What kind of memory has an unlimited capacity for information?

Long-term; it can hold several billion times more than a computer!

Julie enters the school through the west doors and passes several posters that read "successful," "intelligence," and "smart." Jake enters school through the east doors and passes a group of kids bullying another student calling him names such as "dumb," "stupid," and "ignorant." If Jake and Julie are equally knowledgeable and take the exact same test, but Julie scores higher than Jake, what might you say has affected each student's performance?

Priming

Elizabeth is trying to memorize the lines to a poem as a part of a school assignment. Every time she tries to remember the lines, though, the poem she had to memorize last week keeps popping into her head instead. This phenomenon is called:

Proactive interference (forgetting new information)

Jamie is taking a history exam. The questions on Jamie's exam are fill in the blank. Jamie's professor is testing her ___________________

Recall

In Samantha's family it is a tradition to play pitch, a strategic card game, every Friday night after dinner. This Friday night however, Samantha goes to her friend's house for dinner and afterwards they play a similar but different card game called spades. When she goes back home, Samantha struggles with the games because she keeps confusing the rules of pitch with spades. This is an example of ________________

Retroactive interference (forgetting old information)

Krista was in a serious car wreck. When she wakes up she is in a hospital bed surrounded by people who know her, but she does not know them. If you were a doctor, what might you diagnose Krista with?

Retrograde amnesia

Courtney is a senior at OU and will soon graduate with a degree in biology. Her knowledge about topics such as evolution, ecology, and genetics are a part of her _____________________ memory.

Semantic

Sharron's mom names off a list of grocery items she would like he to pick up from the store. When Sharron gets to the store she remembers the first few items her mom told her as well as well as the last few, but has forgotten the rest. What effect is Sharron experiencing?

Serial position effect

Which is not one of the three important processes of memory?

Shaping

Natalie picks up a peach at the grocery store. The colors of the peach remind her of a sunset which causes her to think about her family whom she enjoys admiring the sky with on their back porch. What is this an example of?

elaboration

Curt's favorite childhood memory is playing kickball with his best buds at recess. What part of Curt's memory is being activated when Curt describes this memory?

episodic

Tori remembers how to drive a car with a manual transmission, but when asked how she does it, she just says, "I don't know—it's automatic." This is an example of her _______.

implicit memory (nonconscious procedural memory)

Christopher is currently in a French class at OU. In high school he took Spanish. On his test French exam, he is asked to write the word for blue, but Christopher cannot remember if the correct answer is azul or bleu. This is an example of ________________

proactive interference (forgetting new information)

Clara has been asked to give a speech tomorrow at her school's pep rally. Clara is nervous she will forget what she is supposed to say, so she repeats her speech over and over in her head all night long. What strategy is Clara using to remember her speech?

rehearsal

If we were to compare sensory memory and working memory to sensation and perception, sensory memory involves ----------------, while working memory involves ---------------

sensation, perception

What part of working memory communicates with long term memory?

the central executive

_____________ memory is essentially the place where thinking occurs

working