Question 1

Describe in detail the model of memory originally proposed by Atkinson and Shiffrin.

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Question 2

Explain how research on long-term potentiation has led to a better understanding of how memories are formed.

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Question 3

What are schemas and how are they related to expert knowledge. Illustrate their relation by discussing the research conducted with novice and expert chess players.

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Question 4

Define and differentiate between the following ways of encoding information: 1) automatic processing and effortful processing and 2) structural encoding, phonological encoding, and semantic encoding. Provide an example of each construct.

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Question 5

Discuss the encoding, storage, retrieval and motivational processes that are related to forgetting.

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Question 6

Describe the research by Schacter and his colleagues in examining the neuroscience of retrieving accurate versus fabricated memories.

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Question 7

Explain the difference between anterograde, retrograde, and infantile amnesia. For each address its possible causes.

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Question 8

Assume a friend of yours is having trouble learning and remembering information for one of his/her college classes. Given what you have learned in this course, offer four techniques or things he/she can do to improve long-term memory and academic learning.

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Question 9

Discuss the approach Ebbinghaus took to the study of forgetting. In your answer be sure to describe stimuli and methods he used and his classic finding.

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Question 10

Discuss the various components and subcomponents of long-term memory giving examples of each of the various subcomponents.

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Question 11

Define and discriminate between an associative network model and a neural network model of memory. What is meant by the term "priming" and to which of these two models does it apply? Explain how each model would account for the appearance of a particular word in the mind.

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Question 12

The "central executive" is a control process that is thought to be part of long-term memory.

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The "central executive" is a component of the working memory model, not long-term memory, and it is responsible for directing attention and coordinating cognitive processes.

Question 13

What major roles do the hippocampus, cerebral cortex, thalamus, amygdala, and cerebellum play in memory?

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Question 14

Discuss the limitations of short-term memory and describe two ways that they can be overcome. Why is short-term memory sometimes called "working memory" and, according to Alan Baddeley, what are four different components of working memory?

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Question 15

What kinds of factors serve to create inaccuracies in memory or forgetting? In your answer, discuss the relevance of the misinformation effect and source confusion. How does this information relate to your opinion of the eyewitness testimony?

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Question 16

What is the encoding specificity principle and how is it demonstrated in the following memory phenomenon: state-dependent memory, mood-congruent memory, and context-dependent memory? For each type of memory, give an example demonstrating how it functions.

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Question 17

Describe what research has found about the accuracy of children's memories.

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Question 18

What is sensory memory? Describe the experimental design used by George Sperling to measure the iconic store and summarize his results. Besides the iconic store, what is the other major sensory register and how long does it typically last compared to the iconic store?

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Question 19

Discuss the functions of the following brain regions with regard to human memory: the hippocampus, the cerebral cortex, the amygdala, and the cerebellum.

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Question 20

Describe the serial position effect and its two separate components. Discuss the specific structural components of memory that are responsible for it.

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Quiz 8: Memory