quiz 8 (c&l)

Which example below best demonstrates state-dependent learning?

Although Emily doesn't very often think about her first love, Steve, she can't help getting caught up in happy memories when "their song" (the first song they danced to) plays on the radio.

Lakeisha and Kim have been studying for two hours for their chemistry exam. Both girls are tired of studying. Lakeisha decides to watch a two-hour movie on DVD, while Kim decides to go to bed. What would you predict about their performance on the chemistry exam?

Kim performs better because of consolidation.

Which of the following involves procedural memory?

Reading a sentence in a book

Your book explains that brief episodes of retrograde amnesia (e.g., the traumatic disruption of newly formed memories when a football player takes a hit to the head and can't recall the last play before the hit) reflect

a failure of memory consolidation.

People often report an annoying memory failure when they walk from one end of the house to the other for something and then forget what they wanted when they reach their destination. As soon as they return to the first room, they are reminded of what they wanted in the first place. This common experience best illustrates the principle of

encoding specificity.

According to your text, imagery enhances memory because

imagery can be used to create connections between items to be remembered.

Scene schema is

knowledge about what is contained in a typical scene.

The Stroop effect demonstrates people's inability to ignore the __________ of words

meaning

John Watson believed that psychology should focus on the study of

observable behavior

Experimental evidence suggesting that the standard model of consolidation needs to be revised are data that show that the hippocampus was activated during retrieval of ___________ memories.

recent and remote episodic

Elaborative rehearsal of a word will LEAST likely be accomplished by

repeating it over and over.

___________ cues help us remember information that has been stored in memory.

retrieval

The principle that we encode information together with its context is known as encoding

specificity.

Recent research on memory, based largely on fear conditioning in rats, indicates that

when a memory is reactivated, it becomes capable of being changed or altered, just as it was immediately after it was formed.

Working memory differs from short-term memory in that

working memory is engaged in processing information.