psych 101 memory
In the mirror drawing test, Patient H.M. showed:
clear evidence of task improvement despite no conscious memory of doing the task.
Due to a prolonged oxygen deprivation, Edwin has developed a severe case of anterograde amnesia. Based on your knowledge of memory, you would expect this condition to result in severe difficulties in
creating new declarative memories after the onset of the condition.
There are many different types of memory tasks that are designed to tap different elements of memory. The Ebbinghaus task was targeting this particular memory process:
free recall
Mnemonic devices are most useful when you want to
learn and recall information.
Which of the following ideas/findings supports the notion of equipotentiality in the brain for memory?
Damage to any given area of the rat brain impairs maze learning to the same extent.
The case of Patient S, as described by Alexander Luria, suggests which of the following?
Excellent visualizers may be more likely to have incredible memories.
Which of the following best leverages the idea of context-dependent memory?
Forgetting why you came into the kitchen and so going back into it to try to remember.
If you wanted to chunk the list of numbers "1,8,5,6,3,9," you might do which of the following?
Group the numbers into 18, 56, and 39.
Which of the following is NOT an example of the encoding-specificity hypothesis?
If you studied while eating lots of candy, you should cut down on the candy during the test.
This memory sin may help us understand why patients might develop post-traumatic stress disorder, where one of the key symptoms is trouble forgetting very negative memories.
persistence
Many students will briefly refresh themselves with their notes before an exam with the hope that activating that knowledge will make it easier to draw upon during examination, a process known as
priming.
Clarence usually drives to work, but because his friend needed to borrow his car today Clarence was dropped off at work instead. At the end of his work day, he walked out to fetch his car only to then realize it wasn't there. His mistake is most likely caused by which of the following?
proactive interference
The cerebellum is a brain structure that appears to support the learning of riding a bike and writing, activities that fall under the domain of
procedural memory.
An individual with retrograde amnesia would most likely struggle with:
recalling a significant life event that occurred before the onset of amnesia.
Which of the following is FALSE regarding misinformation?
Increased time between the introduction of misinformation and a memory test will reduce the impact of that misinformation.
According to Miller, the standard range of the capacity of short-term memory is approximately ___ items.
5-9
Which of the following statements is most accurate about human memory?
Recollection involves the active reconstruction of an experience based on those elements you remember.
Ebbinghaus' savings score was designed to reflect which of the following?
The relative ease with which we relearn something.
Which of the following examples best captures the idea of semantic encoding?
Thinking about how something new relates to something you already know.
By allowing jurors to take notes during a trial, it may do all of the following except:
build the strength of the memory centres of their brain.
Starting from sensory input, what are the steps (in order) for creating and recalling memories?
sensory memory, attention, short-term memory, encoding, storage, retrieval
Working to remember lists of grocery store items (e.g., cheese, carrots, steak) of increasing length could be done to estimate a person's capacity of this memory construct:
short-term memory
Memory consolidation is the process by which information transfers from
short-term memory into long-term memory.
According to the Scribe model of memory,
something inside of us takes notes on our personal experiences.
Consolidation refers to the process by which someone
transfers information into long-term memory.
