Cog Psych Chap 6
A patient suffering from Korsakoff's syndrome, such as "Jimmy G" who is described in your text, would be able to perform which of the following activities without difficulty?
Identifying a photograph of his childhood home
________ memories are those that we are not aware of.
Implicit
Which of the following is NOT a conclusion from the case of H.M., who had an operation to help alleviate his epileptic seizures?
LTMs are unaffected by damage to the hippocampus.
Which of the following is an example of a semantic memory?
I remember the big island of Hawaii has many active volcanoes.
Which of the following is NOT an example of semantic memory?
I remember the day we learned about how talking on cell phones can impair driving ability.
Which of the following would most likely be a detailed long-term memory?
I was talking to that girl just before class.
When investigating the serial position curve, delaying the memory test for 30 seconds
. has no effect on the curve. c. decreases the recency effect. d. increases the primacy effect.
________ memories are to experiences as ________ memories are to facts
Episodic; semantic
According to your text, which of the following movies is LEAST accurate in its portrayal of a memory problem?
50 First Dates
Lamar has just gotten a new job and is attending a company party where he will meet his colleagues for the first time. His boss escorts him around to small groups to introduce him. At the first group, Lamar meets four people and is told only their first names. The same thing happens with a second group and a third group. At the fourth group, Lamar is told their names and that one of the women in the group is the company accountant. A little while later, Lamar realizes that he only remembers the names of the people in the first group, though he also remembers the profession of the last woman he met (the accountant). Lamar's experience demonstrates
A build-up and release of proactive interference
A study participant is given a list of words to remember. One week later, he recalls the list. Let's say that one of the list words was PEAR. Which of the following, none of which actually appeared on the list, would be most likely incorrectly recalled if the participant doesn't remember PEAR?
APPLE
Which of the following statements is the most accurate with regard to autobiographical memories?
Autobiographical memories can involve both episodic and semantic content.
Which task below would most likely be used to test for implicit memory?
Completing a word for which the first and last letter have been supplied
Regarding free recall of a list of items, which of the following will most likely cause the recency effect to disappear by preventing rehearsal from taking place?
Counting backward for 30 seconds before recall
Imagine that the students described below are all taking a multiple choice test. Which student's behavior best describes an example of implicit memory?
One student comes to a question for which he is unsure of the answer, but choice b seems familiar so he decides that it must be right.
Which of the following involves procedural memory?
Reading a sentence in a book
Your book discusses the memory functioning of patient H.M. who underwent brain surgery to relieve severe epileptic seizures. H.M.'s case has been extremely informative to psychologists by demonstrating that
STM can operate normally while LTM is impaired.
The following statement represents what kind of memory? "The Beatles stopped making music together as a group in the early 1970s."
Semantic
Which of the following is NOT an example of an implicit memory?
Semantic memory
Which of the following is most closely associated with implicit memory?
The propaganda effect
People who suffer from alcohol abuse may suffer from ________ brought on by Korsakoff's syndrome, and be unable to form new long-term memories.
amnesia
Neuropsychological evidence indicates that STM and LTM probably
are caused by different mechanisms that act independently.
Ming is taking a memory test. She is more likely to recall the name of a popular singer if she had
attended the singer's concert last year with her boyfriend.
Carrie answers her phone with "Hello?" A response, "Hi, Carrie!" comes from the other end of the line. Carrie responds back with "Hi, Dad!" Carrie processed "Hi, Carrie" using an
auditory code in long-term memory.
Murdoch's "remembering a list" experiment described the serial position curve and found that memory is best for ____ of a list.
both the first and last words
The primacy effect (from the serial position curve experiment) is associated with ________ memory.
c. short-term d. long-term
"I remember being really excited last year, when my college team won the national championship in basketball." This statement is an example of _____ memory.
episodic
Phoebe steps up to the golf ball and hits it down the fairway. She sees that the ball is heading towards someone, so she yells "Fore!" After her two partners hit their balls, they pick up their bags and start walking to the next hole. But Phoebe says, "Wait a minute, I haven't teed off yet." This behavior shows that Phoebe has a problem with ____ memory.
episodic
The recency effect occurs when participants are asked to recall a list of words. One way to get rid of the recency effect is to
have participants count backwards for 30 seconds after hearing the last word of the list.
Work with brain-injured patients reveals that ____ memory does not depend on conscious memory.
implicit and procedural
Your text describes an "Italian woman" who, after an attack of encephalitis, had difficulty remembering people or facts she knew before. She could, however, remember her life events and daily tasks. Her memory behavior reflects
intact episodic memory but defective semantic memory.
K.C., who was injured in a motorcycle accident, remembers facts like the difference between a strike and a spare in bowling, but he is unaware of experiencing things like hearing about the circumstances of his brother's death, which occurred two years before the accident. His memory behavior suggests
intact semantic memory but defective episodic memory.
Lucille is teaching Kendra how to play racquetball. She teaches her how to hold the racquet, where to stand, and how to make effective shots. These learned skills that Lucille has acquired are an example of ________ memory.
procedural
The primacy effect is attributed to
recall of information stored in LTM.
This multiple choice question is an example of a ____ test.
recognition
Suppose you have been studying your French vocabulary words for several hours and are making many mistakes. You switch to reviewing the new terms for your upcoming biology test, and your performance is noticeably better. You are experiencing
release from proactive interference.
A patient with impaired episodic memory would most likely have the greatest difficulty in
remembering graduating from college.
In the movie Groundhog Day, Bill Murray's character grows frustrated as he experiences the same day in his life over and over again. With each "passing" day, he is able to respond to people's actions more and more quickly because of
repetition priming.
The predominant type of coding in LTM is
semantic.
The propaganda effect demonstrates that we evaluate familiar statements as being true
simply because we have been exposed to them before.
The dramatic case of patient H.M. clearly illustrates that ____ is crucial for the formation of LTMs.
the hippocampus
Your text discusses how episodic and semantic memories are interconnected. This discussion revealed that when we experience events,
the knowledge that makes up semantic memories is initially attained through a personal experience based in episodic memory.
Wickens et al.'s "fruit, meat, and professions" experiment failed to show a release from proactive interference in the "fruit" group because
the stimulus category remained the same.
Memory enhancement due to repetition priming is a result of
the test stimulus being the same or resembling the priming stimulus.
One of the defining characteristics of implicit memory is that
we are not conscious we are using it.