Cognitive Psych Quizzes 6,7,8,9,10, and 11

Why is classical conditioning considered a form of implicit memory?

BECAUSE IT INVOLVES LEARNING AN ASSOCIATION WITHOUT BEING AWARE OF THE REASONS BEHIND IT

The primacy effect in the serial position curve is due to the words at the beginning of a list having greater probability of being stored in long term memory. How did Rundus (1971) show this?

He showed that when subjects were asked to rehearse aloud words in the list, the number of rehearsals for each word correlated perfectly with the probability that a word in each position would be recalled

Explain the difference between knowing and remembering from Tulving's perspective. Give an example of each to support your thinking

Knowing is more semantic, meaning that a person knows a fact or knows that an event has occurred but they don't remember their experience with it. Remembering is more episodic, meaning that a person may remember an event and their experience with it. An example of knowing is a person knowing that the hippocampus is responsible for memory. An example of remembering is a person who remembers sitting down in anatomy class and looking at a brain model and they remember learning about the hippocampus and seeing it. They also remember what occurred while they were learning about the hippocampus.

In which of the following examples of two different brain injured patients (Tom and Tim) is a double dissociation demonstrated?

Tom has a good semantic memory and poor episodic memory, while Tim has good episodic memory but poor semantic memory

Regarding free recall of a list of items, which of the following will most likely cause the recency effect to disappear by preventing rehearsal

counting backward for 30 seconds before recall

When investigating the serial position curve, delaying the memory test for 30 seconds

decreases the recency effect

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

One of the defining characteristics of implicit memory is that

people are not conscious they are using it

Lucille is teaching Kendra how to play racquetball. She explains how to hold the racquet, how to stand, and how to make effective shots. These learned skills that Lucille has acquired are an example of

procedural

A patient with impaired episodic memory would most likely have the greatest difficulty

remembering graduating from college

Memory Enhancement due to repetition priming is a result of the test stimulus being

the same as or resembling the priming stimulus