PSY 260 Exam 2 Chapter 6

You've now learned about the serial position curve. The relevant research in your text describes this curve using a free recall task (participants are free to recall words in any order they choose). Imagine that you conducted a "remembering a list" experiment using a serial recall task (participants must recall words in the same order they were presented). What would you predict for the results with the serial recall task?

A diminished recency effect, relative to free recall

Which task below would most likely be used to test for implicit memory? A. Completing a word for which the first and last letter have been supplied B. Recognizing words that had been presented in an earlier list C. Recalling the names of popular fairy tales D. Matching Spanish vocabulary words with their English translations

A. Completing a word for which the first and last letter have been supplied

Which example below best demonstrates state-dependent learning?

Although Emily doesn't very often think about her first love, Steve, she can't help getting caught up in happy memories when "their song" (the first song they danced to) plays on the radio.

The inability to assimilate or retain new knowledge is known as

Anterograde amnesia.

Ming is taking a memory test. She is more likely to recall the name of a popular singer if she had

Attended the singer's concert last year with her boyfriend

Why is classical conditioning considered a form of implicit memory?

Because it is involves learning an association without being aware of the reasons behind it.

Which of the following is an example of a semantic memory? A. I remember my earth science teacher telling me how volcanoes erupt. B. I remember seeing a volcano erupt in Hawaii last summer. C. I remember the big island of Hawaii has many active volcanoes. D. I remember "volcano" was the first word on the list Juan read to me.

C. I remember the big island of Hawaii has many active volcanoes.

Jocelyn is in an experiment where she is presented words representing categories. She is presented the word "furniture" in an earlier trial, which makes it easier for her later to recall the word "chair" because of the similarity of meaning. Jocelyn's memory enhancement for "chair" due to seeing the word "furniture" illustrates

Conceptual priming

Transfer-appropriate processing is likely to occur if

ConsolidationA:the type of encoding and type of retrieval match.

We are conscious of _____ memories.

Declarative

"I remember being really excited last year, when my college team won the national championship in basketball." This statement is an example of _____ memory.

Episodic

Explicit memory is to______ as implicit memory is to ________. .

Explicit- Declartive Implicit- Nondeclartive

Which of the following is NOT an example of semantic memory?

I remember the day we learned about how talking on cell phones can impair driving ability.

The primacy effect (from the serial position curve experiment) is associated with

LTM

Imagine that the students described below are all taking a multiple choice test. Which student's behavior best describes an example of implicit memory?

One student comes to a question for which he is unsure of the answer, but choice b seems familiar so he decides that it must be right.

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

STM can operate normally while LTM is impaired.

The following statement represents what kind of memory? "The Beatles stopped making music together as a group in the early 1970s."

Semantic

The propaganda effect demonstrates that we evaluate familiar statements as being true

Simply because we have been exposed to them before

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 the last five words

When investigating the serial position curve, presenting the word list at a slower pace

increases the primacy effect

K.C., who was injured in a motorcycle accident, remembers facts like the difference between a strike and a spare in bowling, but he is unaware of experiencing things like hearing about the circumstances of his brother's death, which occurred two years before the accident. His memory behavior suggests

intact semantic memory, but a defective episodic memory

The primacy effect is attributed to

recall of information stored in LTM

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 dramatic case of patient H.M. clearly illustrates that ____ is crucial for the formation of LTMs.

the hippocampus

Memory enhancement due to conceptual priming is a result of

the test stimulus being similar in meaning to the priming stimulus

Memory performance is enhanced if the type of task at encoding matches the type of task at retrieval. This is called

transfer-appropriate processing.