Psych 300 chapter 8

Which part of the brain has to do with regulating emotions, such as fear and aggression?

amygdala

According to Craik and Tulving, how do we process verbal information best?

semantic encoding

Information about events we have personally experienced is

Episodic memory

Which of the following statements about eyewitness testimony is correct?

Eyewitness testimony is vulnerable to the power of suggestion.

An exceptionally clear and detailed recollection of a significant event is called...

a flashbulb memory

________ encoding is the encoding of sounds.

acoustic

Quincy is struck on the back of the head and finds, while she can remember her life up to the time she was struck on the head, she can no longer make new memories. Quincy has ________ amnesia.

anterograde

Nancy sees a famous rockstar that she is obsessed with, but she is unable to recall his name despite being certain of knowing it. This is known as...

blocking

Elena finds it very difficult to remember a long string of numbers, so she tries to memorize three numbers at a time. Later, she is able to repeat the numbers correctly because she grouped the numbers into more manageable groups of three. This is an example of ________.

chunking

The formulation of new memories is sometimes called ________, and the process of bringing up old memories is called ________.

construction; reconstruction

Benigno wakes up in the middle of the night. He dreamed that he left the oven on, and he is now convinced that the oven is on. He can't go back to sleep until he turns the oven off. Which category of memory failure associated with the seven sins of memory is exemplified?

distortion

We get information into our brains through the input of information into the memory system. This process is called...

encoding

After being given false about an event, if the person's memory of the event has been restructured, what was the person experiencing?

misinformation effect paradigm

A type of implicit memory that stores information about how to do things is known as...

procedural

Which one of the following types of memories are for making skilled actions, such as how to brush your teeth, how to drive a car, and how to swim?

procedural

Getting information out of memory storage and back into conscious awareness is known as...

retrieval

Ben is asked to memorize the words canine, feline, and avian. He remembers the words by associating them with their synonyms: dog, cat, and bird. This is an example of ________ encoding.

semantic

Which is not a part of human memory?

submission

Which of the following is a good example of visual encoding?

thinking about a dog you want to adopt and having the image of the dog appear in your mind

Felipe looks over his presentation, and he notices that some of the words are written in bold and some are written in italic. His ability to remember these differences is an example of ________ encoding.

visual