Chapter 6: Long Term Memory: Structure (short quiz)

Knowing the capital of California, but not being able to remember when you first learned it, is an example of how...

Episodic memory can be a "gateway" to semantic memory.

A patient suffering from Korsakoff's syndrome, such as "Jimmy G" who is described in your text, would be able to perform which of the following activities without difficulty?

Identifying a photograph of his childhood home

Which of the following involves procedural memory?

Reading a sentence in a book

Your book discusses the memory functioning of patient H.M. who underwent brain surgery to relieve severe epileptic seizures. H.M.'s case has been extremely informative to psychologists by demonstrating that...

Short term memory (STM) can operate normally while long term memory (LTM) is impaired

Memory enhancement due to repetition priming is a result of...

The test stimulus being the same or resembling the priming stimulus

Murdoch's "remembering a list" experiment described the serial position curve and found that memory is best for the ____ of a list.

first five and last five words

The recency effect occurs when participants are asked to recall a list of words. One way to get rid of the recency effect is to...

have participants count backwards for 30 seconds after hearing the last word of the list.

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

remembering where a best friend had moved.

In the movie Groundhog Day, Bill Murray's character grows frustrated as he experiences the same day in his life over and over again. With each "passing" day, he is able to respond to people's actions more and more quickly because of

repetition priming

The defining characteristics of implicit memory is that

we are not conscious when using it