psych chapter 8

priming

hearing the word "rabbit" may lead people to spell the spoken word "hair" as h-a-r-e this best illustrates the outcome process known as:

long-term

a flashbulb memory would typically be stored in ______ memory

anterograde amnesia

after a plane crash sherrod wakes up in the hospital and can remember everything about his life. this doctor comes in, introduced himself and explains the course of treat emend. the next day, sherrod believes he has never met the doctor and asks him to explain the proposers treatment. the doctor is most likely to diagnose sherrod with:

retrograde amnesia

after taking a fall off your horse, you seem to have temporarily lost your memory for past events. the doctor will most likely say that you suffer from:

long term petentiation

by activating the amygdala, stress hormones facilitate:

consolidation

changes in the strength of neural connections and construction of new synapses is the process of:

selective attention

children with attention deficit disorder are distracted by everything in their environment rather than being able to chose what to focus on these children are lacking in:

context dependent memory

eyewitness to a crime often recall the details of the crime most accurately when they return to the scene of the crime. this best illustrates:

sensory memory

in order for us to experience the world as a continuous stream of imagination, one experience is kept in the brain while we move to the next experience. this overlap is a function of:

hippocampus, cerebellum, amygdala

memory is stored in which part of the brain?

long term memory can hold essential unlimited amounts of information

professor smith is doing research on fish. he refuses to learn students names because he insists that the names take up space in his long term memory which could be better used for fish info. he is incorrect because:

procedural

remembering how to ride a bike is an example of which type of memory?

prospective

remembering that he needed to pick up a gallon of milk on the way home from work, jon is using his ________ memory system

sensory memory

storage in this memory system is brief and represents a sensory experience:

forgetting

the inability information from long term memory is:

episodic memory

the memory of your wedding day is an example of an:

chunking

to remember more information _____ can be used to organize information into meaningful units

encoding, storage, retrieval

what are the 3 steps in memory information processing?

recall

when an eyewitness to an auto accident is asked to describe what happened, which measure of memory is being used?

encode, store, retrieve

yesterday you taught your dog to crawl across the floor while barking. if the dog is to perform this fabulous trick tomorrow then he will need to ______ the trick, then ______ the trick then ______ the trick