psych chapter 8 quiz (memory)

________ encoding is the encoding of sounds.

acoustic

quincy is struck on the back of the head and finds, while she can remember her life up to the time she was struck on the head, she can no longer make new memories. quincy has ________ amnesia.

anterograde

sharmila cannot remember what she had for breakfast last week, but she can remember the day she got married ten years ago as clearly as if it just happened. this example illustrates the ________ theory.

arousal

which part of the brain is most involved in creating implicit memories?

cerebellum

what should be changed to make the following sentence true? the step of recall, which is the conscious repetition of information to be remembered in order to move it from STM into long-term memory, is called memory consolidation.

change the word "recall" to the word "rehearsal"

what should be changed to make the following sentence true? there are three types of encoding: semantic, visual, and sensory.

change the word "sensory" to the word "acoustic"

what should be changed to make the following sentence true? In order for a memory to go into storage, it has to pass through three distinct stages: transitional memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory.

change the word "transitional" to the word "sensory"

which of the following statements about eyewitness testimony is correct?

eyewitness testimony is vulnerable to the power of suggestion

chuck was in a car accident. he wishes he could put it behind him, but every night he has dreams about it, and every time he sees a car he remembers how he felt that day. which category of memory failure associated with the seven sins of memory is exemplified?

intrusion

which of the following examples illustrates that the deese-roediger-mcdermott paradigm?

jerome is required to memorize 15 words associated with dog. When he is asked to repeat the words he has learned, dog is among them, even though dog was not a word on the original list.

in order for a memory to go into storage (i.e., long-term memory), it has to pass through three distinct stages: sensory memory, short-term memory, and ________ memory.

long-term

according to the atkinson-shiffrin model, ________.

memories are processed the same way that a computer processes information

in order to remember his lines for the play, guy repeats his lines over and over again. this process is called ________.

rehearsal

which of the following is a good example of semantic encoding?

remembering the colors of the rainbow with the acronym ROY-G-BIV

jason studies spanish for three years, and then switches to pashto. when asked to remember spanish vocabulary he can't, instead he can only remember pashto vocabulary. this is an example of ________ interference.

retroactive

elaine wakes up in the hospital with a head injury. she gets to know her doctors and nurses over time, but it soon becomes clear that she has no memories from before she woke up in the hospital. elaine has ________ amnesia.

retrograde

according to baddeley and hitch, ________.

short-term memory itself has different forms

why do strong emotions trigger the formation of strong memories and weak emotional experiences form weak memories?

strong emotional experiences can trigger the release of neurotransmitters and hormones that strengthen memory.

giorgio memorizes the german poem "the erlking" to recite in his eighth grade german class. he remembers it well for weeks after the presentation, but gradually his ability to recite the poem fades. this is an example of ________, one of the seven sins of memory.

transience

felipe looks over his presentation, and he notices that some of the words are written in bold and some are written in italic. his ability to remember these differences is an example of ________ encoding.

visual