Chapter 8 pt. 3 Launchpad questions

Who is MOST likely to have memory difficulties?

Jane, who studies Spanish and French back to back

_____is a loss of memory, often due to brain trauma, injury, or disease. Please type the correct answer in the following input field, and then select the submit answer button or press the enter key when finished.

amnesia

In _____interference, information learned earlier disrupts the recall of information learned more recently.

proactive

During a Spanish language exam, Janice easily remembers the French vocabulary she studied that morning. However, she finds it difficult to recall the Spanish vocabulary she rehearsed that afternoon. Her difficulty BEST illustrates:

proactive interference

It's evening and we're mentally replaying the day's events. We picture our facial expressions as we listened to a friend's tale of woe. Because we were unable to see these expressions at the time, our recall necessarily illustrates:

reconsolidating

Tanner's study partner asks him, "Which German physiologist is associated with the trichromatic theory of color vision?" "Um . . . von . . . von . . . I know it! H something . . . ," Tanner manages. Tanner is experiencing:

tip-of-the tongue position

The BEST way to master material for a given test is to:

use distributed practice

If you ask your classmates to draw either side of a U.S. penny from memory, the majority will not be very accurate. This MOST likely reflects a failure in the memory process of _____.

encoding

Jane often studies Spanish and French back to back right after school. She might have trouble remembering the different vocabulary because she is not minimizing _____.

interference

Although Ron typically smokes two packs of cigarettes each day, he recalls smoking little more than one pack per day. This poor memory BEST illustrates:

motivated forgetting

Janel was sexually abused by her uncle when she was 5 years old. This experience was so devastating and traumatic that she removed the memory from her conscious awareness. This is an example of:

repression

Maximizing _____cues is a good way to improve your memory of something.

retrieval

Ivan recently suffered a severe stroke and is no longer able to remember events from his childhood. His memory problems are related to:

retrieval failure