Psych Final TEST 3
Researchers studying the links among emotional stress and memory have discovered that
Both stress and emotion make events more memorable
The term working memory is preferable to short term memory in contemporary memories modules because it
Acknowledges that our conscious thoughts include memories from the past in addition to new sensory input
Sarah was asked to memorize a list of letters that included V, Q, Y and J. She literally called the letters as e, u , and I and K, suggesting that the original letters had been coded
Acoustically
Which of the following is an example of flashbulb memory
Anna remembers when her father returned from an overseas military deployment because the day was very emotional for her
Yanni's new friend from another state just gave her his phone number. As she goes to enter the number into her contact list she finds that she cannot remember all of the numbers in the right order. Which of the following is best explanation for this failure
Being 10 digits long the number is Beyond yannis magic number
What to parts of the brain are most involved in implicit memory
Cerebellum and basal ganglia
John has noticed that he does better on his chemistry exams when he takes them in the same seat that he sits in during class then he does when he sits in a different seat for each exam. If he is properly prepared for each exam then ____ May explain his difference in score
Context affect
Walking into your bedroom you think I need to get my backpack in the kitchen when you reach the kitchen you forget what you came in there for as you return to your bedroom is certainly remember backpack. This sudden recall is best explained by
Context dependent memory
One way to increase the amount of information in memory is to group it into large familiar units. This process is referred to as
Chunking
Austin can't remember Jack's name because he wasn't paying attention when Jack was formally introduced. Austins poor memories but it's playing in the terms of
Encoding failure
Memories for activities such as bicycle riding in piano playing are known as
Procedural
Susan gets a new phone number each time she tries to give someone the new number she gets her old one instead the fact that her old number is causing her difficulty in remembering her new one is an example of
Proactive interference
Kyla a high school senior is asked to remember her eighth grade teachers name. What measure of attention but Kyla used to answer this question
Recall
Kandel and Schwartz have found that one of learning occurs, more of the neurotransmitter _______ Is processed
Serotonin
The process of getting information out of memory storage is called
Retrieval
Remembering a word based on how it fits in a sentence is an example of what kind of processing
Semantics
Echoic memory fades after approximately
3-4 seconds
It's beer mentors gave people a list of words to be recalled. And the participants were tested after a delay, the items best recalled were those
At the beginning of the list
Which of the following is an example of anterograde amnesia
Louis can remember his past but nothing since experiencing a brain infection for years ago
Being in a bad mood after a hard day of work Susan could think of nothing positive in her life. This best explained as an example of
Mood congruent theory
Explicit memories are processed by the
hippocampus
What does Hermann Ebbinghaus' forgetting curve show about the nature of storage decay?
A rapid initial decline followed by leveling off
Iconic memory is to echoic memory as
visual stimulation is to auditory stimulation
Rats giving a drug that and Hanses long-term potentiation (LTP) will learn a maze with half the usual number of mistakes. This suggests that
LTP provide a normal basis for learning and remembering associations
Group one is asked to write down the names of the seven deadly sins. Group 2 was asked to look at a list of possible names of the sins and circle the correct seventh. Why make route to be more likely to identify more names
Recall requires more steps than recognition
Which of the following is an example of serial position effect
Remembering the beginning and end of your grocery list but not the items in the middle
Which of the following best describes explicit memories
The result of effortful processing
Which of the following is more likely to lead to semantic encoding of a list of words
Thinking about how the words for late to your own life
Which of the following is likely to be encoded automatically
What you ate for breakfast this morning
Mohammed has been in his school cafeteria hundreds of times it is a large room that has nine posters of food groups one day his psychology teacher ass is Mohamed to recall the number of posters in the cafeteria after struggling Mohamed finally replies it there are six pillars what memory concept is this best illustrates
Encoding failure
Rhyming words with numbers and then associating the items from the list with those rhyming words in order to remember them is known as
Peg word system
After discussing money and finance for a lengthy amount of time Jake reads the word bread on a menu in initially pictures dollar bills. This is an example of
Priming
One Carlos moved into a new office with a new phone it's tension every time he is asked for his phone number Carlos thinks of his old extension illustrating the effects of
Proactive interference
Regarding therapist guided recovered memories of sexual abuse in infancy which statement best represents an appropriate conclusion about this issue
Since the brain is not sufficiently matured to store accurate memories of events before the age of four memories from the first four years of life are not reliable
Which of the following statements is true about effective study habits
Spacing is more effective than messing
Which of the following sequences would be best to follow if you wanted to minimize inference induced forgetting in order to improve your recall on the psychology midterm
Study sleep test
Studies demonstrate that learning causing permanent changes in the _____ Of animals neurons
Synapses
In history class Anthony's effortlessly connecting to the new material to what he has learned in the past. This making of connection in the moment best describes Anthony's
Working memory
The three steps in memory information processing are
encoding, storage, retrieval