Memories We've made in class
An individual's ability to remember the day he or she first swam the length of a swimming pool is most clearly an example of what kind of memory?
Episodic
People listening to rock music played backward often perceive an evil message if specifically told what to listen for. What does this phenomenon best illustrate?
top-down processing
Average intelligence increases as the years increase.
The tendency of most people to identify a three-sided figure as a triangle, even when one of its sides is incomplete, is the result of a perceptual process known as
closure
A man sustains a head injury. After the injury, he is able to tie his shoes, but he does not recall where he lives. Which aspect of the man's memory is intact and which aspect is dysfunctional?
Procedural- intact
Semantic- dysfunctional
What occurs within your memory during long-term potentiation?
Memory improves because neural pathways are strengthened.
Denny does not have wrapping paper to use to wrap a present, and so he decides to use colorful newspaper comics instead. Denny's solution demonstrates that he has overcome what?
Functional fixedness
On the whiteboard draw out the forgetting curve and explain what it is.
As time passes we remember less
Kathy is learning how to cook. She follows every direction on each recipe step by step to make sure her food tastes good. What describes the problem-solving approach that Kathy is using?
Algorithm
The Graph depicts which of the following phenomenon?
The forgetting curve
What type of memory does this demonstrate?
"Elizabeth knows the formula to calculate the area of a square."
Semantic memory
Uma is able to remember a list of items she must buy by creating visual images of the item in various spots in her dorm room. What is the technique called that Uma is using?
The method of loci
What is the conclusion researchers can make if results of a study are statistically significant?
The results are not likely due to chance.
Mental shortcuts or rules of thumb that help solve problems and reduce mental effort are called what?
Heuristics
Many participants in a study of memory were led to falsely believe that they were lost in a shopping mall as a young child. What memory construction error was demonstrated by the researchers' ability to create these artificial memories?
Misinformation effect
What does distributed practice do?
Helps students remember more details.
Matt finds that whenever he is doing chores around the house, he can listen to an audiobook and still remember what the story was about. However, when his friends text him about plans for the weekend, he realizes that he has to rewind the audiobook because he forgot what the story was about. What level of processing is Matt experiencing for doing chores around the home?
Automatic
On the whiteboard graph the serial positioning effect and explain what it is.
The items at the middle of the list are the least likely to be remembered and the items at the beginning and the end are the most likely to be remembered.
A one-year-old child learns that the furry animals with bushy tails she sees outside her window are squirrels. Later she sees chipmunks outside the window and believes those are also squirrels. Which Piagetian concept is the child demonstrating?
Assimilation
The difficulty many people have recalling the details of common objects such as pennies can best be explained by what?
A lack of encoding
Short-term memory is best described how?
Memory that can hold only a small amount of information
Define metacognition.
Thinking about thinking
On the whiteboard draw a negatively skewed result. why do negative skews occur?
Low outliers
What occurs when previously learned information hinders the ability to learn and remember new information ?
proactive interference
John suffered a head injury in an accident five years ago. He now has clear memories of events that occurred before the accident, but he has great difficulty remembering any of the experiences he has had since the accident. John's symptoms describe what?
Anterograde amnesia