PSY 100 - Ch. 7

Dana is suffering from _____ when she fails to remember events preceding traumatic brain injury. Dana's case BEST demonstrates:

retrograde amnesia

_____ refers to faulty memory for how, when, or where information was learned or imagined.

Source amnesia

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 brain's _____.

hippocampus

Our unconscious capacity for learning how to do something is known as nondeclarative or _____ memory.

implicit

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

While sitting in the park one day, Morris witnessed a robbery. When asked by the police to describe the "young criminal," Morris recalled erroneously that the criminal was a teenager rather than an adult. Morris' experience BEST illustrates the _____ effect.

misinformation

_____ memory refers to our tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with our current mood. Please type the correct answer in the following input field, and then select the submit answer button or press the enter key when finished.

mood-congruent

An essay test is a good example of a ______ test of explicit memory.

recall

Which statement is true regarding the order in which memory processes occur?

Retrieval follows storage

After a severe bout of encephalitis, Clive Wearing could no longer develop new memories. Clive suffered from _____ amnesia.

anterograde

Deep brain structures involved in movement and the formation of our procedural memories for skills are the _____.

basal ganglia

The primacy and recency effects are both components of the _____ effect.

serial position

To make a long-distance call, you have to dial an unfamiliar phone number. You are likely to have trouble retaining the number you just looked up. This BEST illustrates the limited capacity of _____ memory.

short-term

An attorney uses misleading questions to distort a court witness' recall of a previously observed crime. This BEST illustrates:

the misinformation effect

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

Amelia remarks that she needs to learn the text's section on the structures of the brain for an upcoming test. Brian responds that he couldn't remember the function of the hippocampus on a test the preceding day. Amelia is making reference to the memory process called _____. Brian is referring to the memory process called _____.

encoding; retrieval

A recall test is to a recognition test as _____ is to _____. Please choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button.

fill-in-the-blank; multiple choice

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:

reconsolidation

According to Freud, one reason that people forget is because they are _____ painful memories.

repressing

Mrs. Arroyo cannot consciously recall how frequently she criticizes her children because it causes her too much anxiety. Sigmund Freud would have suggested that her poor memory illustrates _____.

repression

When you encode 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 _____ cues.

retrieval

Which ability is NOT a measure of retention? a. relearning b. recognition c. retrieval d. recall

retrieval

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