Chapter 8 pt. 2 Launchpad questions
If the functioning of your cerebellum is impaired, you would have trouble:
tying a not
Learning to ride a bike is likely to require activation of the _____rather than the ______.
cerebellum and basal ganglia; hippocampus
Long-term potentiation is an increase in the _____over time.
efficiency of synaptic transmission
Because she drank too much alcohol, Deanna barely remembers her twenty-first birthday. That is, her _____memory of that evening is sketchy.
episodic
John remembers very clearly the day his best friend died in a bicycle accident at the hands of a drunk driver. This BEST illustrates _____memory.
flashbulb
Some of our memories of an emotionally significant moment or event are vividly clear. These are known as:
flashbulb memory
Recalling a visual scene of last month's party and holding it in working memory would be MOST likely to activate the right _____lobe.
frontal
Long-term potentiation (LTP) is enhanced by the neurotransmitter:
glutamate
The hippocampus and brain cortex display simultaneous activity rhythms during sleep. This supports the process of:
memory consolidation effect
Episodic memory is exemplified by one's memory of:
one's first kiss
In the process of retrieving a specific memory from a web of associations a person needs to activate one of the strands that leads to it. This is known as:
priming
"Dog food, coffee, paper towels," Michelle's roommate begins reciting items into the phone as Michelle gets into her car. She is supposed to stop by the store on the way home. Her roommate continues to list a few more items. Finally, he wraps with, ". . . coffee creamer, spaghetti sauce, dish soap, and iced tea mix." Michelle forgets a few things, but the spaghetti sauce, dish soap, and iced tea mix are in the bag. Her memory of these items reflects the _____effect.
recency
The primacy effect refers to the fact that:
the items presented first on a list are more likely to be remembered than items on the middle of the list.
If you study for a test by reviewing multiple-choice items but your test is given in an essay format, you aren't likely to do as well as you might have if the test were also multiple choice. This is explained by the:
Encoding specificity center
How might one describe the shape of the function relating the probability of an item's recall to the item's position on a list?
a U shape
In daily life, when one says one remembers some information or a piece of knowledge, one means that one is able to use it. Memory, therefore, entails not only encoding and storage but also _____.
retrieval
