Psy 3420 - Chpt 7

Neurons that respond to specific qualities of objects, such as orientation, movement, and length, are called

feature detectors

Kelby wants to study memory in amnesiac patients. While they seemingly have no memory for new events, Kelby knows that if he uses an ______ task, such as ______, he can see that amnesiac patients can sometimes remember.

implicit; stem completion

The difficulty we have in recognizing even an obvious alteration in a scene is called __________ blindness.

change

The study of the physiological basis of cognition is known as

cognitive neuroscience.

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.

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

Autobiographical memories can involve both episodic and semantic content.

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

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

Which of the following illustrates how we can miss things even if they are clearly visible?

Inattentional blindness

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.

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.

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.

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

autobiographical

Explicit memory is to ___________ as implicit memory is to ___________.

aware; unaware

Murdoch's "remembering a list" experiment described the serial position curve and found that memory is best for ___________ of a list.

both the first and last words

According to Tulving, an episodic memory is distinguished by the process of ________ it.

reliving

Procedural memories are also known as ________ memories.

skill

Memory enhancement due to repetition priming is a result of the test stimulus being

the same as or resembling the priming stimulus.

The Stroop effect occurs when participants

try to name colors and ignore words.