memory lesson question recaps
In one study by Ceci and others, nearly _____ percent of preschoolers produced false memories of events that never happened.
60
The _____ is the brain area involved in processing explicit memories for storage.
Hippo campus
After being verbally threatened by a person in a passing car, Teresa was asked if she recognized the man who was driving the car. Several hours later, Teresa mistakenly recalled that the driver was male rather than female. Teresa's experience BEST illustrates:
The misinformation effect
Julaine and Trystan are taking a political science midterm. The test covers five chapters. Yesterday, Julaine studied all five chapters in an 8-hour marathon session. Trystan studied the material over a 5-day period, for just over 90 minutes each day. All else being equal, which student is likely to perform best on the test, and why?
Trystan should outperform Julaine, because distributed practice is superior to massed practice.
Estelle remembers a night she was mugged and brutally beaten. This memory probably involves not only her hippocampus but also her _____ because of the emotional nature of the event.
amygdala
Rhonda cannot remember anything about the first several minutes immediately following a car crash in which she was injured. Rhonda is experiencing _____ amnesia.
anterograde
During a basketball game, Tyree suffered a concussion. Afterward, he could not remember the game or what happened when he was treated in the hospital. Tyree was experiencing:
antrograde amnesia
Professor Wallace studies memory in people who have had strokes. Professor Hansen studies people who claim to have clear memories of events that happened over three decades ago. Such research on the extremes of memory:
helps one to understand how memory words
Damage to the _____ would MOST likely interfere with a person's ability to form new memories of a family vacation trip.
hippocampus
Some patients suffering from amnesia are incapable of recalling events. Yet they can be conditioned to blink their eyes in response to a specific sound. They have MOST likely suffered damage to the:
hippocampus
Research conducted by George Sperling showed that people have something akin to a fleeting photographic memory. This _____ provides a momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli, like a picture-image, that lasts only a few tenths of a second.
iconic
Some patients with anterograde amnesia have learned how to spot hard-to-find figures in the Where's Waldo? series without any conscious awareness that they can do so. This BEST illustrates their retention of _____ memory.
implicit
Katrina studied the Russian language in high school. Although she was not fluent, she did accumulate a large vocabulary. Years later she decided to go to Russia, so she wanted to brush up on her vocabulary. She picked up the vocabulary much more quickly because:
it is easier to relearn; that is, to learn the material for a second time.
_____can be defined as the persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information.
memory
When they are retrieved, memories are often altered before they are stored again. This process is called:
reconsolidation
According to Freud, one reason that people forget is because they are _____ painful memories.
repressing
The happier Judie feels, the more readily she recalls experiences with former teachers who were warm and generous. This BEST illustrates that emotional states can be _____ cues.
retrieval
When one encodes a piece of target information, other bits of information become associated with it. The bits of information connected with the target information are known as:
retrieval cues
After switching dorm rooms and getting a new phone number, Samantha found that it was harder to remember her previous dorm room's phone number. Samantha was experiencing _____ interference.
retroactive
Sebastian took three years of Latin in high school. In college, he takes three courses in Spanish. By the end of college, he finds it hard to remember much Latin. Sebastian is experiencing _____ interference.
retroactive
James has suffered hippocampal damage from a near-fatal bus crash. He is not able to remember verbal information, but retains the ability to recall visual designs and locations. He may have suffered damage to his: Please choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button.
right hippocampus
Although Jordan cannot recall the exact words of a poem he heard recently, he clearly remembers the poem's meaning. This BEST illustrates the importance of:
semantic encoding
Millie has been having difficulties remembering what people have just said. She is unable to follow along during her favorite television shows. Millie is having difficulty with her _____ memory.
short term
Ralph came home quite drunk from a party on Saturday night. Luckily, he was given a ride home. He threw his apartment keys down somewhere and immediately fell asleep. He may not be able to find his keys again until he is once again drunk because of:
state-dependent memory.
The sites where nerve cells communicate with one another by means of chemical messengers are called _____.
synapses
Human capacity for storing long-term memories is:
unlimited
Memories can often be triggered by an associated environmental stimulus. This process is called:
Priming
Joe is happy to hear that the test will be all multiple-choice questions as he feels he has a good chance to pass by using:
Recognition of the information.
Although one might wish that studying occurred automatically, successful studying, unfortunately, requires the attention and conscious work known as:
effortful processing
If one asked one's 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
In the _____ effect, the first items in a list are better remembered than the middle items in a list.
primacy
A test of memory that involves picking the correct answer from a displayed list of options is an example of a retention measure called:
recognition