Quiz 6

Reading a sentence in a book

Which of the following involves procedural memory?

semantic memory

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

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

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

propaganda effect

Which of the following is most closely associated with implicit memory?

the stimulus category remained the same.

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

aware; unaware

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

Identifying a photograph of his childhood home

A man suffering from Korsakoff's syndrome would be able to perform which of the following activities without difficulty?

intact semantic memory but defective episodic memory.

K.C., who was injured in a motorcycle accident, remembers facts like the difference between a strike and a spare in bowling, but he is unaware of experiencing things like hearing about the circumstances of his brother's death, which occurred two years before the accident. His memory behavior suggests

both the first and last words

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

are caused by different mechanisms that act independently.

Neuropsychological evidence indicates that short- and long-term memories probably

Skill

Procedural memories are also known as ________ memories.

Counting backward for 30 seconds before recall

Regarding free recall of a list of items, which of the following will most likely cause the recency effect to disappear by preventing rehearsal?

form

The coding of a stimulus into memory refers to which of the following?

future

The constructive episodic stimulation hypothesis describes how our memories are connected to our ________.

the hippocampus

The dramatic case of patient H.M. clearly illustrates that ___________ is crucial for the formation of long-term memories.

recall of information stored in long-term memory.

The primacy effect is attributed to

have participants count backwards for 30 seconds after hearing the last word of the list.

The recency effect occurs when participants are asked to recall a list of words. One way to eliminate the recency effect is to

recognition

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

implicit and procedural

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

intact episodic memory but defective semantic memory.

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