Midterm 2

Question 1

• Flashbulb memories will vary in vividness and completeness depending on…

Answer 1

How surprising and consquential

Question 2

• Flashbulb memories are basically …

Answer 2

highly detailed memory traces

Question 3

Flashbulb memories are not more accurate than memories

True or False

Answer 3

True

Question 4

How do you the Disruption that occur during the process of consolidation

Answer 4

retroactive interference

Question 5

A phantom limb is a false memory. True or False

Answer 5

True

Question 6

The fail to distinguish real and imaginary event is called

Answer 6

source monitoring framework / errors

Question 7

what happens when you get older regarding memory

Answer 7

you tend to forget specific details but the deeper meaning is still retained.

Question 8

• Ribot’s law of retrograde amnesia

Answer 8

older memories are more resistant to brain damage.

Question 9

Explain jost law of forgetting

Answer 9

it states that 2 memory traces that are equal strength, the younger ones will decay faster than the older ones.

Question 10

• The ecological oriented approach is not focused on how memory works in real life.

True or False

Answer 10

False

Question 11

• The lab oriented approach is focused on how memory is stored in the brain and the process.

True or False

Answer 11

True

Question 12

• Anoetic is associated with

Answer 12

Procedural memory

Question 13

• Noetic is associated with

Answer 13

Semantic memory

Question 14

Autonoetic is associated with

Answer 14

episodic memory

Question 15

which system is hypothesized to be responsible for priming effects

Answer 15

the perceptual representaton system.

Question 16

• You are more likely to experience TOT under …

Answer 16

stress and old age.

Question 17

possible reasons of the Moses illusion

Answer 17

the words are semantically and phonologically related.

Question 18

• IF the first word is semantically related to the second word, the time it took to recognize the second word was less.

true or false

Answer 18

true

Question 19

Semantic memory declines with old age and not episodic memory

True or False?

Answer 19

False,
episodice memory declines with old age but not semantic

Question 20

• Amnesics patients do poorly on tasks that needs _______ but much better on those requiring _________.

Answer 20

explicit memory

implicit memory.

Question 21

• Alzheimer’s disease leads to decline in _______, ability to _________ and a decline in _________ memory.

Answer 21

episodic memory, retain new information and semantic memory

Question 22

Name three ways to retrain memory for amnesiacs

Answer 22

Build an environement that doesn’t require much memory for them

Use electronic organizers

and teach them specifics useful skills to them.

Question 23

The strength of of the experience of synesthesia appears to dictate what?

Answer 23

to dictate how likely it is to be used.

Question 24

The more frequently you see a letter or a thing, the brighter the color associated will be for synesthetes

True or False

Answer 24

True

Question 25

You see a difference in male and female in rotation tasks. Like the more it needs to be rotated, the longer it takes to complete the task.

Answer 25

Men tend to outperform women. BUT if objects are more important to females are used, there's no difference.

Question 26

An eidetic image is a fusion of what ... two things.

Answer 26

imagery and percept

Question 27

four features of eidetic memory

Answer 27

1- the image is perceived in the head. 2- the image can be scanned and described in detail 3-descriptions are quicker and assured than memory reports. 4- it's common in children.

Question 28

The lower the angular rotation is required, the higher the reaction time for "Same Pairs"

Answer 28

False.

Question 29

items that are ... are easier to remember than .... items.

Answer 29

interrelated and individual

Question 30

humor is more memorable than .... things

Answer 30

bizarre.

Question 31

explain the difference between special places strategy and method of loci:

Answer 31

method of loci: you start with a set of places and you store items in them by forming relationship b/w the two. When you want to remember, you just go the that place and recall what is tied to that place. special place strategy: you also store your objects in a special place but the recall process is going from object to location and not location to object. PLus there is no relationship between the two.