Cognitive Psych Chapter 6

___________ memories are to experiences as ___________ memories are to facts.

Episodic; semantic

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

Semantic

Lamar has just gotten a new job and is attending a company party where he will meet his colleagues for the first time. His boss escorts him around to small groups to introduce him. At the first group, Lamar meets four people and is told only their first names. The same thing happens with a second group and a third group. At the fourth group, Lamar is told their names and that one of the women in the group is the company accountant. A little while later, Lamar realizes that he only remembers the names of the people in the first group, though he also remembers the profession of the last woman he met (the accountant). Lamar's experience demonstrates

a build-up and release of proactive interference.

From a cognitive psychology perspective, memories from specific experiences in our life are defined as being ________.

autobiographical

Semantic memory is to ________ as episodic memory is to ________.

knowing; remembering

When investigating the serial position curve, delaying the memory test for 30 seconds

decreases the recency effect.

Your text describes an "Italian woman" who, after an attack of encephalitis, had difficulty remembering people or facts she knew before. She could, however, remember her life events and daily tasks. Her memory behavior reflects

intact episodic memory but defective semantic memory.

According to Tulving, the defining property of the experience of episodic memory is that

it involves mental time travel.

Your text discusses how episodic and semantic memories are interconnected. This discussion revealed that when we experience events,

the knowledge that makes up semantic memories is initially attained through a personal experience based in episodic memory.

Wickens et al.'s "fruit, meat, and professions" experiment failed to show a release from proactive interference in the "fruit" group because

the stimulus category remained the same.