PSYC 3304 Exam 1 Review

Which view of Psychology recognizes the nature of environmental stimuli and its influence on individuals and animals ?

behaviorism

Which of the following can be used to induce amnesia in episodic memory?

benzodiazepines

Variables that measure response in an experiment are called:

dependant variables.

Memory loss can occur at tremendous costs in this area due to its widespread consequences.

diencephalon

Integrated information in a short-term memory system requires an:

episodic buffer.

Which area of the brain is associated with emotions?

hypothalamus

Which of the following systems did Elizabeth bring eyewitness memory error to?

legal

When an individual suspects a diagnosis of Alzheimer's, one of many dimentia/type illnesses, what will be the first deficit detected in this disease?

memory

Memory for things we need to do in the future is known as:

prospective memory.

If items in working memory are remembered due to maintenance of those items, the observation that memory is usually superior for items at the end of a serial position curve is known as the:

recency effect.

When identification is required of a target memory from a set of presented items, it is called:

recognition.

The Duration of Information in Working Memory is defined as the amount of time information will remain in working memory if not:

rehearsed

Unlike language, music is processed primarily on which hemisphere of the brain?

right hemisphere

Magnetic fields created in an fMRI use a three-dimensional image capturing ______ of the brain.

structure

Strayer and his colleagues have found:

that cell-phone use during driving causes more accidents relative to non-cell phone use when hazards are present that people react more slowly to.

The serial position curve measures:

the likelihood of correct free recall of items as a function of the input order at presentation.

The pronunciation time effect demonstrates that:

the magic number 7 plus or minus two does not completely explain working memory in the digit-span task.

Effect explaining that longer words are more difficult to maintain in working memory than are shorter words is:

word length

Baddeley's model of working memory states that:

working memory is composed of separable sub-systems

Learning and remembering are a practice known as:

active processes.

An inability to form new memories follow brain damage is called:

anterograde amnesia.

An inability to form new memories following brain damage is known as:

anterograde amnesia.

A researcher needs to identify changes in specific regions of the brain after an automobile accident. The technician uses a magnetic coil to electrically stimulate particular areas of the brain to determine problems. What type of changes does this stimulation cause?

cognitive

The Olfactory Bulb is the primary organ for processing odors. Information from the olfactory nerves is carried directly to the:

cortex

What is it called when a person is given a specific cue and must generate a target memory that corresponds to that cue?

cued recall

By what mechanism do drugs, such as caffeine, affect brain functions ?

neurons

Define the term indicating the associating between two items, such as in language.

paired-associated learning

Attention is most associated with this lobe.

parietal

Articulatory suppression requires the use of the:

phonological loop.

The observation that memory is usually superior for items at the beginning of a serial position curve is thought to be caused by the encoding of those short items into long-term memory. What type of effect would be generated by a large dip in performance for items in the middle of a list?

primacy