Cognitive Psychology Chapter 6

Why is classical conditioning considered a form of implicit memory?

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

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

Episodic; semantic

Which of the following is an example of a semantic memory?

I remember the big island of Hawaii has many active volcanoes

In which of the following examples of two different brain-injured patients (Tom and Tim) is a double dissociation demonstrated?

Tom has good semantic memory and poor episodic memory, while Tim has good episodic memory but poor semantic memory.

"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

Work with brain-injured patients reveals that ___________ memory does not depend on conscious memory.

implicit and procedural

One of the defining characteristics of implicit memory is that

people are not conscious they are using it

Believing that a particular statement is true simply because you have seen the statement in previous instances is known as the ________ effect.

propaganda

This multiple-choice question is an example of a ___________ test.

recognition

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

semantic