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Your memory of what you did on prom night is stored as which type of memory? Episodic.
Gillian asks Eddie to show her how to play one of his guitar solos. At first, Eddie attempts to explain every finger and
hand movement involved in the solo. As he proceeds, he becomes more and more frustrated. Although he knows the
Procedural.
guitar solo well, he finds it difficult to put this knowledge into words. Eddie ends up just playing the part for Gillian and
asking her to try to imitate him. The guitar solo was most likely encoded as what type of memory?
Glenn likes to watch nature documentaries. While watching a documentary about the mating habits of the octopus, Glenn Implicit
was reminded of his trip to Mardi Gras two years earlier. Glenn's involuntary recollection is an example of memory.
Both Lenny and Squiggy have a vocabulary test tomorrow. Lenny passively reads his list of words over and over again.
Maintenance;
Squiggy arranges the words in the list to tell a story and practices using each word in a sentence. Which type of
elaborative.
rehearsal is Lenny using? Which type is Squiggy using?
Merle was asked to remember the following list of numbers: 1, 7, 7, 6, 1, 8, 6, 5, 1, 9, 1, 8, 1, 9, 4, 2. She was able to do
this because she grouped them this way: 1776, 1865, 1918, 1942. What method did Merle use to remember the list of Chunking.
numbers?
Rachel calls her husband Ted at his office to ask him to pick up a few things at the store on the way home. She rattles
off a list of twenty-five items. The two then say good-bye and hang up. Ted reaches for pencil and paper. How many of Five to nine.
the twenty-five items should he be able to write down from memory without chunking?
Rachel calls her husband Ted at his office to ask him to pick up a few things at the store on the way home. She rattles
The primacy
off a list of twenty-five items. The two then say good-bye and hang up. Ted reaches for pencil and paper and is able to
effect.
remember the first several items on the grocery list, which is an example of
The items you are working on now are testing which memory process? Recognition.
Context-
Chris, who was born and raised in Tennessee, went away to college in Illinois. When he returned to his parents' house,
dependent
he was amazed at all the childhood memories that came to mind. Chris's remembering is an example of
memory.
Last month, Roger got drunk and misplaced his glasses. He couldn't find them until today when he came home slightly State-
inebriated and remembered exactly where he had put them. The fact that he was able to find them after drinking but not dependent
while he was sober demonstrates memory.
Amanda was telling Consuela about a movie she had seen when Consuela asked who starred in the movie. Amanda The tip-of-
became frustrated because even though she could describe the actor, she could not think of his name. Amanda is the-tongue
experiencing phenomenon.
"Yes, I'm
In court, the defense attorney addressed the witness with: "There was a hammer lying on the ground. Did you see it?"
sure I saw a
Research has shown that if there was no hammer, the witness is most likely to answer:
hammer."
Julie decides to order a pizza. She looks up the phone number and picks up the phone. But before she can make the
Interference;
call, her roommate starts talking to her. Julie realizes that she is holding the phone but has no idea what the phone
short-term
number of the pizza delivery service is, even though it has been less than twenty seconds since she looked up the
memory.
number. What caused Julie to forget the number, and what part of memory was affected?
Greg studied French in high school. When he went to college, he decided to study Spanish. He found the class very Proactive
difficult because he kept using French vocabulary words and French verb endings. This is an example of interference.
In the Fall semester, Professor Cole managed to remember the names of all 44 students in his lecture class. Then, when
Spring semester came, he was able to remember the names of 42 new students. One day, while strolling on campus, he
Retroactive
ran into one of the students from the Fall semester. No matter how hard he tried, he could not retrieve the student's
interference.
name. All he kept coming up with were the names of Spring semester students. His inability to remember the old names
is probably due to
Koji was accidentally struck on the head. At first, he seemed to be all right. After a while, it became apparent that,
although he remembered events leading up to the accident, he had no memory of what happened after the accident. Koji Acetylcholine.
most likely experienced damage to the cells that produce which substance in his brain?
Ryan suffered retrograde amnesia after crashing his scooter into an oncoming van. Gradually, he regained his memory Information-
back up to the day of the accident, but he still had no recollection of the accident itself. Ryan's experience provides processing
support for which theory of memory? theory.
Rachel calls her husband Ted at his office to ask him to pick up a few things at the store on the way home. She rattles Use a
off a list of twenty-five items. To ensure that he remembers every item on the list, Ted should mnemonic.
Instead of repeating, "Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto" to remember the planets,
A mnemonic.
Mary says to herself, "Man very early made jars stand up nearly perfect." Mary is using
On the first day of school, when the art teacher dictated the list of supplies that they would need to get for the class,
Harrison realized that he didn't have pen or paper for writing them down. Instead, he visualized each item in a different
part of his house. For instance, in the dining room, he imagined a vase on the table filled with #2 pencils instead of The method
 flowers; in the living room, the couch had four sketch pads instead of cushions; in the bathroom, there was a gum eraser of loci.
in the soap dish; and in the kitchen, the silverware drawer was filled with assorted paintbrushes. Harrison was using a
mnemonic device called
As Bernardo sits back listening to music, the music is being encoded into his memory with which type of code? Acoustic.
"I remember when," usually precedes the recollection of ________ memories, whereas, "I know that," usually precedes Episodic;
the recollection of ________ memories. semantic.
Tiffany kept repeating to herself over and over the names of the people in her fiancé's family. What type of rehearsal was
Maintenance.
she using?
Worse than
Mr. Herrera told his students that the test would include multiple-choice items. The main items were multiple choice, but
on the
Mr. Herrera added an essay item for extra credit. According to the transfer-appropriate processing model, how should Mr.
multiple-
Herrera's students do on the essay item?
choice items.
They are
connected by
In the parallel distributed processing (PDP) model of memory, units of knowledge are remembered when networks of
association to
other units.

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