Deck 7: C: Memory

Question 1

Controlled,scientific studies have cast doubts on claims that the herbal remedy ____ can enhance one's memory abilities.

Answer 1

ginkgo [ Ginkgo biloba is also correct ]

Question 2

____ is the memory system for the information that a student taking an exam is currently thinking about or attending to.

Answer 2

Short-term memory

Question 3

The ____ is heavily involved in moving information from short-term into long-term memory.

Answer 3

hippocampus

Question 4

Loi is reading over the teams that have won the National Basketball Association (NBA)championship since 1980.His recall of the first nine and last nine champions at significantly higher rates than the ten champions in the middle would clearly demonstrate the ____.

Question 5

LaShon has a quiz about research methods for both his psychology and biology classes.As he studies,he is continually getting information from one class confused with information from the other.The resulting memory loss is called ____.

Question 6

The "Magic Number," seven plus or minus two,refers to the storage capacity of ____ memory.

Question 7

The process of retaining information in memory is called ____.

Question 8

Although LaShonda has never actually been on a job interview before,she knows what to expect based on her three practice interviews with her high-school guidance counsellor.This mental model of an interview is one example of what psychologists call a ____.

Question 9

Some professors give students quizzes so that they can clearly and easily identify what material they know well and what material they need to spend more time reviewing or if they need to change their study strategy.Awareness of one's own memory limitations is what psychologists refer to as ____.

Question 10

Diego witnessed an assault where a person with brown hair attacked another person.However,when he is later questioned by a police officer who mistakenly asked him to further describe the other characteristics of the person with black hair,Diego comes to hold a memory where the suspect has black,not brown,hair.This is an example of the ____.

Question 11

An individual's knowledge about the world,like the fact Wilhelm Wundt is considered the father of psychology or that Sigmund Freud claimed that the id,ego,and superego are three different structures of everyone's personality,is called ____.

Question 12

As he studies the different structures and regions of the brain,Jerious works to link nearby structures together to more easily remember and recall them during his test.This attempt to make the information more meaningful,and thereby easier to remember later,is one example of ____.

Question 13

In classes where comprehensive or cumulative exams are given,a student would be best advised to engage in ____ practice.

Question 14

Learning strategies that are used to enhance memories are called ____.

Question 15

Retrieving information through ____ is the most difficult method of assessing memory.

Question 16

An undergraduate student hypothesizes that having research participants perform arithmetic problems that produce an answer of 24 will make them more likely to respond with the word diamond when they are later asked to name a gemstone,than participants whose problems produce an answer other than 24.This research study clearly is examining the role that ____ can play in memory.

Question 17

The memory system with the largest storage capacity is ____.

Question 18

When someone attempts to determine if they merely imagined being lost in a department store as a child or if they really were lost in a department store as a child,that person is engaged in ____.

Question 19

Peter is trying to accurately remember what his wife,Lois,looked like and was wearing the first time he ever saw her.Research suggests this will involve actual details stored in his memory as well as his best guesses and hunches based on his current knowledge.This suggests that people ____ many of their recollections of the past.

Question 20

Scientific research suggests that the total loss of memory,or generalized amnesia,is ____ (frequency).

Question 21

According to the authors,when one is attempting to determine whether a claim of repressed childhood sexual abuse is based on real or false memories,we should look for additional ____.

Question 22

Springfield's Chief Wiggum is bringing Barney in to identify who robbed his Bowl-a-Rama.To lessen the chance of making a false eyewitness identification,he should consider the use of a ____ line-up.