Human Cognitive Chapter 6

Which of the following is NOT a conclusion from the case of HM, who had an operation to help alleviate his epileptic seizures?

LTMs are unaffected by damage to the hippocampus

The primacy effect is assocaited with

Long Term Memory

T/F: Coding is a mental phenomenon, not a physiological phenomenon

False

T/F: Episodic memories involves interstellar time travel

False

T/F: HM had both corpus callosi removed to end his seizures

False

T/F: Murdock's serial position curve replicated Ebbinghaus's forgetting curve

False

T/F: Priming is an example of explicit memory

False

T/F: Proactive Interference occurs when new information interferes with recalling old informaton

False

T/F: Release from PI occurs when the police take off the cuffs

False

T/F: The recency effect occurs because rehearsal keeps the words in memory

False

Which of the following is an example of semantic memory?

I remember the big island of Hawaii has many active volcanoes

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

Which of the following would most likely be a detailed long term memory?

I was talking to that girl just before clas

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Apple

Which task below would most likely be used to test for implicit memory?

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

T/F: A long term memory can last a lifetime

True

T/F: A semantic memory is a memory about a fact.

True

T/F: An audio coding example would be calling to mind the voice of a parent saying "no"

True

T/F: Autobiographical memory is memory for specific experiences from our life.

True

T/F: Classical Conditioning is a type of learning

True

T/F: Damage to the parietal lobe seems to effect long term memory

True

T/F: Encephalitis is a form of inflammation of the brain

True

T/F: Explicit memories refer to memories we are consciously aware of.

True

T/F: Long term memory and short term memory work together

True

T/F: The primacy effect is better recall for words at the begining of a list

True

T/F: The term coding refers to the form in which a stimulus is represented in memory

True

T/F: We are more likely to forget episodic components of long term memories rather than semantic components

True

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a build up and release of proactive interference

People who suffer from alcohol abuse from ___ brough on by Korsakoff's syndrome, and be unable to form new long term memories

amnesia

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

attended the singers concert last year with her boyfriend

Explicit memory is to ___ as implicit memory is to ___.

aware; unaware

Why is classical conditioning considered a form of implicit memory?

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

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

decreases the recency effect

____ memories are to experiences as _____ memories are to facts

episodic; semantic

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

Work with brain-injured patients revealed that ___ memory does not depend on conscious memory.

implicit and procedural

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

Which of the following statements is the most accurate with regard to autobiographical memories?

it can involve both episodic and semantic memories

Suppose you have been studying your French vocab words for several hours and are making many mistakes. You switch to reviewing the new terms for your upcoming biol test, and your performance is noticeably better. You are experiencing

release from proactive interference

The predominant type of coding in LTM is

semantic

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

simply because we have been exposed to them before

One way to ensure that a person does not remember that a word was presented to them in the past (when testing priming) is to

test patients with amnesia

The dramatic case of patient HM clearly illustrated that ____ is crucial for the formation of LTMs

the hippocampus

One of the defining characteristics of implicit memory is that

we are not conscious we are using it