PSYCH 115.8 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Hippocampus
After recovering from a stroke, Farina was able to learn how to hit a tennis ball. She is
unable, however, to learn and remember the name of the rehabilitation therapist who
has been working with her each day to develop her tennis swing. Farina is most likely to
have suffered damage to her
motivated forgetting
Compulsive gamblers frequently recall losing less money than is actually the case. Their
memory failure best illustrates
cerebellum
Evidence suggests that procedural memories are stored in the _____________
context dependent memory
After learning that kicking would move a crib mobile, infants showed that they recalled
this learning best if they were tested in the same crib. This best illustrates
distributed practice
By consciously rehearsing in many separate study sessions over the semester the facts
you need to learn, you are most clearly taking advantage of
flashbulb memory
Many middle-aged adults can vividly recall where they were and what they were doing
the day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated, although they cannot remember what
they were doing the day before he was assassinated. This is an example of ______.
recognition
Which memory test would most effectively reveal that Mr. Quintano, at age 55, still
remembers many of his high school classmates?
misinformation effect
Based on Loftus's 1978 study, subjects viewed a slide presentation of an accident, and
some of the subjects were asked a question about a blue car when the actual slides
contained pictures of a green car. When these same subjects were asked about the
Hippocampus
After recovering from a stroke, Farina was able to learn how to hit a tennis ball. She is
unable, however, to learn and remember the name of the rehabilitation therapist who
has been working with her each day to develop her tennis swing. Farina is most likely to
have suffered damage to her
motivated forgetting
Compulsive gamblers frequently recall losing less money than is actually the case. Their
memory failure best illustrates
cerebellum
Evidence suggests that procedural memories are stored in the _____________
context dependent memory
After learning that kicking would move a crib mobile, infants showed that they recalled
this learning best if they were tested in the same crib. This best illustrates
distributed practice
By consciously rehearsing in many separate study sessions over the semester the facts
you need to learn, you are most clearly taking advantage of
flashbulb memory
Many middle-aged adults can vividly recall where they were and what they were doing
the day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated, although they cannot remember what
they were doing the day before he was assassinated. This is an example of ______.
recognition
Which memory test would most effectively reveal that Mr. Quintano, at age 55, still
remembers many of his high school classmates?
misinformation effect
Based on Loftus's 1978 study, subjects viewed a slide presentation of an accident, and
some of the subjects were asked a question about a blue car when the actual slides
contained pictures of a green car. When these same subjects were asked about the
