Chapter 7 - Questions Flashcards
Jacob learned French in high school and is now learning Spanish in college. He finds that sometimes when he intends to write a Spanish word, he instead writes a French word. Jacob’s problem is due to
Proactive interference.
Karl’s grandmother, who came from Poland, died when he was three. He can remember very little about her. In fact, he has no conscious memories of the wonderful Polish food she used to cook. One day, Karl walks by a Polish restaurant and is flooded with memories of his grandmother. The food served as a ________ for Karl’s memories of his grandmother.
retrieval cue
You can remember a catchy song that you last heard several years ago. Your brain likely stores this memory in the _______ cortex.
auditory
A likely way in which suggestibility might cause new information to change an old memory is through
reconsolidation
Cognitive structures that help us perceive, organize, process, and use information are referred to as
Schemas
If a witch flew down and struck you with retrograde amnesia, you would be ________ to form new memories and ________ to remember events before the attack.
able; unable
Short-term memory
has a ______ capacity.
has a limited capacity.
The acronym LTP stands for
Long-Term Potentiation
A children’s flipbook consists of a series of pictures of Mickey Mouse with his feet in slightly different positions. If you look at the pages one at a time, slowly, all you see are the individual pictures of Mickey. However, if you flip the pages quickly, you see Mickey running. This illusion is due to storage of the successive pictures in ________ memory.
sensory
As a participant in a memory experiment, Shamithia has been given a list of words: candy, sugar, tart, pie, and honey. When she is later asked to recall the words on this list, Shamithia incorrectly recalls one of the words. Which of the following words is she most likely to FALSELY recall?
A. bee
B. salty
C. fork
D. sweet
D. sweet
