Exam 2 Review v2

Following long-term potentiation, synaptic communication is weakened.

Observable movements of the body (e.g., shift in gaze) to focus attention at a particular spatial location is know as

Focusing your cognitive resources on answering a question on the PSY230 exam is an example of which type of attention?

Which of the following may explain the phenomenon of change blindness?

At a cocktail party conversing with a friend, you are most likely to hear which of the following?

Executive control processes largerly occur in which brain region?

Unilateral neglect (inattention to the left) is typically the result of damage to which brain structure?

Intrusion errors are typically caused by

According to the interference hypothesis, most forgetting is attributable to the fact that

The contents of short-term memory are more "fragile" than those of long-term memory.

Retrieval refers to the process in which information travels from

In the lexical decision task, the word "table" would produce the fastest reaction times when primed by which words?

Which of the following levels of processing would result in the best memory for the word "PILLOW" ?

Evidence from patients with amnesia indicate that the hippocampus is critical for the formation of explicit LTM.

Which of the following are examples of nondeclarative memory?

A result of automaticity is that a practiced behavioral procedure becomes

In a classic study of context dependent memory, if material was learned on land, it was best recalled in which case?

Waving a sparkler in the dark leaves an apparent trail of light. Which type of memory does this example demonstrate?

Rehearsal is important for the conversion of information from

Unobservable/internal mechanisms to focus attention at a particular spatial location is know as

The primacy effect in research using the serial position curve is best explained by which of the following

In the change detection task, the capacity of visual working memory is 7 +/- 2.

Which of the following is true about autobiographical memories and related to the consistency bias?

An autobiographical memory for taking Exam 2 in learning and cognition is an example of what?

Which of the following are examples of exogenous attention eliciting cues?

In the digit span task, the capacity of verbal working memory is 4 +/- 2.

While reading your cognition textbook, which of the following activities would be easiest to multitask?

Research has shown that an intention to learn is the most important factor in successful encoding into long-term memory.

Autobiographical memories are an example of which type of memory?

Elaborative encoding is thought to facilitate retrieval by creating multiple retrieval paths.

Evidence from ERP studies of endogenous and exogenous indicate which of the following

Talking on the phone while driving is dangerous because even items directly in view can go unnoticed. This describes

Which brain structure is neccessary for the formation of new explicit memories?

The recency effect in research using the serial position curve is best explained by which of the following

"How fast were the cars going when they smashed together?" is likely to result in which type of memory error?

Which brain structure is the most likely location for the storage of explicit memories?