Chapter 7 Review Quiz

Little does she know it, but while Ileana is having a great time at camp, making new friends and learning new skills, some of her neural connections, especially in her hippocampus, are growing stronger and new synapses have been constructed. What is the name of this process by which experiences become lasting memories? classical conditioning spreading activation dual coding consolidation

consolidation

Kendra is studying abroad, and she realizes that, compared to the local students she has befriended, she sometimes remembers events differently. Perhaps her preexisting __________ are affecting the way she encodes experiences. networks prejudices models schemas

schemas

Marie kept trying to recall the name of the new movie she wanted to see. Although she'd seen the preview several times, she kept drawing a blank on the title. She had the sense that she knew the title, but she could not produce it at that moment. Which type of forgetting was she experiencing? retroactive interference proactive interference tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon absentmindedness

tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon

Janay is at a movie with her girlfriend, and the two are enjoying the rich visual scenes on the screen. As the visual information enters Janay's nervous system it is changed into a neural code that her brain can understand. As this occurs, Janay starts to create a memory of the movie through the process of encoding. attention. filtering. storage.

encoding.

Keisha had a memorable night at a close friend's wedding. Between the beautiful scenery, the touching vows, and the dancing, this wedding was epic. While the memories have already been encoded, these two phases of memory will allow Keisha to remember and talk about this night for years to come. visual attention and auditory attention storage and retrieval filter theory and change blindness sensory storage and long-term storage

storage and retrieval

Vikranth takes pride in being able to memorize long strings of letters very quickly. His trick is to see each group of letters as the initials of people he knows. That way, instead of remembering 20 letters, he only has to remember a group of seven friends. What is the name for Vikranth's technique? scheming filtering chunking lumping

chunking

When she was little, Melanie ate corn nuts right before riding a roller coaster. The ride gave her motion sickness and she threw up. Since then, Melanie has never wanted to eat corn nuts, even though the corn nuts did not cause her to be sick. Which type of implicit memory is at play? episodic memory semantic memory classical conditioning procedural memory

classical conditioning

Mrs. Nieto always takes the time to make lessons meaningful for her students. She doesn't ask them to memorize lists of information without giving her students background and context for each item. She is hoping that __________ encoding based on semantics will allow her students to remember the information better in the future. deep visual auditory maintenance

deep

According to one model of memory, seeing a hammer might also partially activate memories for related items, such as nails, screwdrivers, and wrenches. The model of memory that best accounts for this phenomenon is schema theory. spreading activation models. filter theory. selective attention models.

spreading activation models.

Damian noticed that a suspicious car had been circling his neighborhood, so the next time it drove past, he looked at the license plate number. Which type of memory allowed him to repeat the number to himself long enough to find a pen and paper and write it down? short-term memory long-term memory chunking working memory

working memory

Patient B.F. has anterograde amnesia. Which of the following will he be able to do? recognize his wife and children learn to knit remember the days of the week and the months of the year All of the answer options are correct.

All of the answer options are correct.

Alexandra and her best friend had a fight, after which they didn't speak for months. Then Alexandra came across a ticket stub from a concert the two girls had attended together, and suddenly she recalled happy memories of times she spent with her friend. She then decided it was time to call her friend and try to make up. How did the ticket stub help Alexandra access these memories? It provided context to produce a sense of familiarity. It served as a retrieval cue that was encoded with the other happy memories. It served as a mnemonic device to facilitate memory. It provided a method of loci that helped Alexandra remember other happy times.

It served as a retrieval cue that was encoded with the other happy memories.

After Suzi's purse was stolen, the police asked her to look at mug shots to try to identify the perpetrator. After looking at several images, Suzi felt that they became blurred together in her mind and she no longer felt confident that she would be able to identify the man who stole her purse. In fact, she could no longer recall even whether he had a moustache. The suggestibility of memory raises serious questions about using __________ for courtroom evidence. DNA handwriting analysis fingerprints eyewitness testimony

eyewitness testimony

Abraham is at a club with some friends when he sees an attractive woman at another table. He strikes up a friendly conversation with her, and after a while she gives him her email address. Abraham repeats the email address to himself over and over again while he signals to a friend that he needs a pen so he can write it down. Abraham is using __________ to keep the information active in his working memory. elaborative rehearsal maintenance rehearsal spreading activation chunking processes

maintenance rehearsal

Krista's best friend has a huge crush on a guy in their physics class. When Krista hears he is now single, she immediately tells her friend. A few days later, though, her friend tells her the same news, as if she hadn't heard it from Krista in the first place! What type of distortion error has Krista's friend made? misattribution flashbulb memory bias suggestibility

misattribution

While studying for her final exam in an anatomy and physiology class, Fabienne tries to create a sentence where the first letter of each key term represents an important concept that she will need to know. Fabienne is using the retrieval cue of __________ to help her remember the key terms. state-dependent memory suggestibility mnemonics context-dependent memory

mnemonics

While studying the different types of long-term memory, Mary finds it helps if she starts by thinking about how each kind of memory is defined. Which of the following would be the best way for her to think about the definition of procedural memory? motor skills and habits associating two stimuli to produce a response facts and general knowledge personally experienced events

motor skills and habits

When she goes to the grocery store, Mykaeya leaves her shopping list at home. She is able to remember the first few things on her list and the last few things on her list, but she can't remember the items in the middle of her list. Her memory for the start of her list demonstrates the __________ effect, while remembering things at the end of the list is an example of the __________ effect. chunking; maintenance recency; primacy maintenance; chunking primacy; recency

primacy; recency

Roberto has just moved to a new address. When he is filling out an information page on a website he automatically starts to type in his old address and then has trouble remembering his new address. What memory process explains why Roberto forgot his new address? proactive interference memory bias retroactive interference absentmindedness

proactive interference

You go to the hospital to visit Patient N.L., who has had memory problems following a sports injury three weeks ago. Patient N.L. recognizes his team of doctors, is able to speak, and is able to remember who has visited him that day, but he did not recognize his girlfriend or parents, and he did not remember where he lived or went to school. You're not surprised to learn that he has been diagnosed with anterograde amnesia. retrograde amnesia. Alzheimer's disease. absentmindedness.

retrograde amnesia.