Psych Unit 3 Flashcards
Which part of the brain plays a key role in forming and storing the implicit memories created by classical conditioning
Cerebellum
The forgetting curve is when information learned drops off rapidly with time T/F
T
In order to remember her way from her new home to her school Julie consciously formed a mental image of each street corner at which she needed to turn. This best illustrates
Effortful processing
Following brain injury from a brutal might attack, Mike is unable to call hysterical recognize what a knife is. But hd still shows a conditioned fear response the sight of a knife. His conditioned reaction best indicates that he retains a _______ memory
Implicit
Hearing the word “rabbit” may lead people to spell the broken word “hair” as “Hare.” This best illustrates the outcome of a process known as
Priming
The address for obtaining tickets to a popular quiz show flashes on the TV screen, but the image disappears before Sergei has had a chance to write down the complete address, do you surprise, however, he has retained a momentary mental image of the five digit ZIP Code. his Experience best illustrates ________ memory.
Iconic
The occasional tip of the tongue forgetting experience by older adults can be best explained in terms of the greater difficulty older people have with
Retrieval
We overlearn when we connected our explicit and implicit memories T/F
F
Your activated but limited capacity memory is called the ______ memory
Short term
Sherry easily remembers a telephone reservation number for holiday inn by using the pneumatic one 800 holiday she’s using a memory aid known as
Chunking
Philippe just completed medical school. In reflection of his years of formal education, he’s able to recall the names of all his instructors except the fifth-grade teacher fountain. According to Freud, his forgetting illustrates
Repression
Oh phone Dominic rattled off a list of 10 grocery items for Kyoko to bring home from the store. Immediately after hearing a list of the items. She is most likely to forget the items
In the middle of the list
The serial position effect refers to the tendency to recall best the _____ items in a list
Middle and last
The ability of some Alzheimer’s patients to learn how to do something despite the fact they have no conscious recall of learning a new skill best illustrates the need to distinguish between
Explicit memory and implicit memory
Which memory test would most effectively reveal that Mr. can Tonnelle at age 55 still remembers many of his high school classmates
Recognition
Damage to the hippocampus would most likely interfere with a persons ability to learn
The names of newly introduced people
Procedural memories for well learn skills such as how to ride a bicycle are typically ________ memories
Implicit
Some of the information in our _______ memory are coded into ________ memory
Iconic; short term
Jamila French school spreads study time well
Spacing effect
Cerebellum is to ______ memory as hippocampus is to ______ memory
Implicit; explicit
The process of encoding refers to
Getting information into memory
Memories for well learned automatic skills such as how to tie your shoes are called ______ memories
Procedural
When I witness to an auto accident is asked to describe what happened, which measure of memory is being used?
Recall
The persistence of learning overtime most clearly depends on
Memory
Recall of what you have learned is often improve when your physical surroundings at the time the retrieval and encoding are the same. This best illustrates
Context dependent memory
The title of the song in the tip of Gerard’s tongue, but he cannot recall it until someone mentions a songwriters name. Gerard’s initial inability to recall the title was most likely caused bye
Retrieval failure
Arnold so easily remembers it all his old girlfriend’s phone number he finds it difficult to recall his new girlfriend’s number. Arnolds difficulty best illustrates
Proactive interference (something from earlier blocking newer)
The self reference affect best illustrates the value of
Deep processing
After looking up his friends phone number, Alex was able to remember it only long have to dial it correctly. In this case, the phone number was clearly stored in his ______ memory
Short term
A loss of encoding memory as a result of a gradual fading of the physical memory trace best illustrates
Storage decay
Knowledge of facts and concepts about the world is called episodic memory T/F
F
Students who study throughout the term and then restudy course material at the end of the semester to pass a comprehensive final are especially likely to demonstrate long-term retention of the course material. This best illustrates
Spacing effect
A type of motivated forgetting in which anxiety arousing memories are blocked from conscious awareness is known as
Repression
People should avoid back to back study times for learning Spanish and French vocabulary in order to minimize
Interference
Remembering how to solve a puzzle without any conscious recollection that you can do so best illustrates ______ memory
Implicit
Which neural center of the limbic system helps process explicit memories for storage
Hippocampus
Or year and a half after directly experiencing a San Francisco earthquake, people had very accurate recall of where they had been and what they were doing at the time of the earthquake. This recall best illustrates _______ memory
Flashbulb
Shortly after hearing a list of items, people tend to recall the last items in the list especially quickly and accurately. This best illustrates
A recency effect
Repeating someone’s name several times shortly after being introduced that person is an effective strategy for
Rehearsal
Rabbits fail to learn the condition I blink response when the function of different pathways in their ______ is surgically disrupted
Cerebellum
Proactive interference refers to the
Disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information
