Psych Final TEST 3

Researchers studying the links among emotional stress and memory have discovered that

Both stress and emotion make events more memorable

The term working memory is preferable to short term memory in contemporary memories modules because it

Acknowledges that our conscious thoughts include memories from the past in addition to new sensory input

Sarah was asked to memorize a list of letters that included V, Q, Y and J. She literally called the letters as e, u , and I and K, suggesting that the original letters had been coded

Acoustically

Which of the following is an example of flashbulb memory

Anna remembers when her father returned from an overseas military deployment because the day was very emotional for her

Yanni's new friend from another state just gave her his phone number. As she goes to enter the number into her contact list she finds that she cannot remember all of the numbers in the right order. Which of the following is best explanation for this failure

Being 10 digits long the number is Beyond yannis magic number

What to parts of the brain are most involved in implicit memory

Cerebellum and basal ganglia

John has noticed that he does better on his chemistry exams when he takes them in the same seat that he sits in during class then he does when he sits in a different seat for each exam. If he is properly prepared for each exam then ____ May explain his difference in score

Context affect

Walking into your bedroom you think I need to get my backpack in the kitchen when you reach the kitchen you forget what you came in there for as you return to your bedroom is certainly remember backpack. This sudden recall is best explained by

Context dependent memory

One way to increase the amount of information in memory is to group it into large familiar units. This process is referred to as

Chunking

Austin can't remember Jack's name because he wasn't paying attention when Jack was formally introduced. Austins poor memories but it's playing in the terms of

Encoding failure

Memories for activities such as bicycle riding in piano playing are known as

Procedural

Susan gets a new phone number each time she tries to give someone the new number she gets her old one instead the fact that her old number is causing her difficulty in remembering her new one is an example of

Proactive interference

Kyla a high school senior is asked to remember her eighth grade teachers name. What measure of attention but Kyla used to answer this question

Recall

Kandel and Schwartz have found that one of learning occurs, more of the neurotransmitter _______ Is processed

Serotonin

The process of getting information out of memory storage is called

Retrieval

Remembering a word based on how it fits in a sentence is an example of what kind of processing

Semantics

Echoic memory fades after approximately

3-4 seconds

It's beer mentors gave people a list of words to be recalled. And the participants were tested after a delay, the items best recalled were those

At the beginning of the list

Which of the following is an example of anterograde amnesia

Louis can remember his past but nothing since experiencing a brain infection for years ago

Being in a bad mood after a hard day of work Susan could think of nothing positive in her life. This best explained as an example of

Mood congruent theory

Explicit memories are processed by the

hippocampus

What does Hermann Ebbinghaus' forgetting curve show about the nature of storage decay?

A rapid initial decline followed by leveling off

Iconic memory is to echoic memory as

visual stimulation is to auditory stimulation

Rats giving a drug that and Hanses long-term potentiation (LTP) will learn a maze with half the usual number of mistakes. This suggests that

LTP provide a normal basis for learning and remembering associations

Group one is asked to write down the names of the seven deadly sins. Group 2 was asked to look at a list of possible names of the sins and circle the correct seventh. Why make route to be more likely to identify more names

Recall requires more steps than recognition

Which of the following is an example of serial position effect

Remembering the beginning and end of your grocery list but not the items in the middle

Which of the following best describes explicit memories

The result of effortful processing

Which of the following is more likely to lead to semantic encoding of a list of words

Thinking about how the words for late to your own life

Which of the following is likely to be encoded automatically

What you ate for breakfast this morning

Mohammed has been in his school cafeteria hundreds of times it is a large room that has nine posters of food groups one day his psychology teacher ass is Mohamed to recall the number of posters in the cafeteria after struggling Mohamed finally replies it there are six pillars what memory concept is this best illustrates

Encoding failure

Rhyming words with numbers and then associating the items from the list with those rhyming words in order to remember them is known as

Peg word system

After discussing money and finance for a lengthy amount of time Jake reads the word bread on a menu in initially pictures dollar bills. This is an example of

Priming

One Carlos moved into a new office with a new phone it's tension every time he is asked for his phone number Carlos thinks of his old extension illustrating the effects of

Proactive interference

Regarding therapist guided recovered memories of sexual abuse in infancy which statement best represents an appropriate conclusion about this issue

Since the brain is not sufficiently matured to store accurate memories of events before the age of four memories from the first four years of life are not reliable

Which of the following statements is true about effective study habits

Spacing is more effective than messing

Which of the following sequences would be best to follow if you wanted to minimize inference induced forgetting in order to improve your recall on the psychology midterm

Study sleep test

Studies demonstrate that learning causing permanent changes in the _____ Of animals neurons

Synapses

In history class Anthony's effortlessly connecting to the new material to what he has learned in the past. This making of connection in the moment best describes Anthony's

Working memory

The three steps in memory information processing are

encoding, storage, retrieval