Chapter 9: Memory
Rd Pages 349-353
Q1. Describe the memory feat of Russian journalist Shereshevski .
Q2. Provide three examples of flashbulb memories from the text.
Q3. Describe President’s Bush episode of false flashbulb memory.
Q4. How is building a memory like information processing in creating a text boo?
Q5. How does a computer encode, store, and retrieve information?
Q6. Describe the three stage processing model of memory proposed by Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin.
Q7. What process explains why we can speak while driving?
Q8. Why is it so difficult to try to remember the melody for one song while we are listening to another?
Q9. What do brain scans show concerning working memory?
Read Pages 353-361
Q1. Provide examples of automatically processing information about space, time and frequency
Q2. How does learning to read become automatic processing
Q3. Describe Ebbinghuas’s retention curve
Q4. Describe the next-in-line effect
Q5. What happens to information processed seconds before sleep?
Q6. How does “sleep learning” not occur?
Q7. What was the discovery made by Harry Bahrick regarding foreign language word translations?
Q8.How does the serial positioning effect interfere with you rehearsing all your classmates names
Q9. How are our minds like theater directors who, given a raw script, imagine a finished stage production?
Q10. Describe the experiment Fergus Craik and Endel Tulving demonstrated comparing visual, acoustic, and semantic encoding
Q11. What did Ebbinghaus estimate about learning nonsense material compared with learning meaningful material
Q12. Describe the self-reference effect
Q13. Describe rosy retrospection
Q14. Provide three example of mnemonic devices
Q15. How does chunking aid our recall of unfamiliar material, and increase our recall of digits?
Q16. How did Gorden Bower and his colleagues demonstrate the benefits of hierarchical organization?
Read Pages 361-366
Q1. How did George Sperling demonstrate the initial recording of sensory information in the memory system?
Q2. How did Lloyd Peterson and Margaret Peterson show how quickly short-term memory will disappear
Q3. Describe “Magical Number Seven plus or minus two”
Q4. Why are our brains not like attics, contrary to Sherlock Holmes belief?
Q5. Provide examples of three world memory championship records
Q6. How did Ralph Gerad test the memory trace, using hamsters?
Q7. Describe the findings based on the observed changes by Eric Kandel and James Schwartz in the sending neurons of a simple animal, Aplysia
Q8. How does increased synaptic efficiency make for more efficient neural circuits?
Q9. What are the benefits of boosting CREB protein production
Q10. What can a blow to the head, and ECT therapy do people’s recent memory?
Read Pages 367-369
Q1. How does the availability of glucose affect memory?
Q2. How does weaker emotion mean weaker memory?
Q3. When stress is prolonged, how does it affect our memories?
Q4. How did Neurologist Oliver Sacks describe an amnesiac patient, Jimmie, and how did this demonstrate implicit and explicit memory
Q5. Describe damage to the left and right hippocampus, and the functions of different hippocampus regions

Q6. How does the hippocampus act like a loading dock, and how is it affected by sleep
Q7. What do brain scans reveal about memory in different regions of the brain
Q8. Amnesia patients may retain the distributed fragments of a memory such as sight, sound, smell, objects, people, actions, and emotions, but what cant they do?
Q9. How does the cerebellum play a key role in memory
Q10. How does our dual explicit-implicit memory system help explain infantile amnesia?
Read Pages 370-375
Q1. How did Harry Bahrick differentiate between recall and recognition concerning yearbook pictures?
Q2. How do retrival cues help recall passwords
Q3. How is priming often “memoryless memory”?
Q4. What Carylon Rovee Collier discover concerning context effects and three month old infants?
Q5. How does our memory system produce deja vu using contextual effects?
Q6. How did James Lampinen describe Deja Vu
Q7. Describe state-dependent memory
Q8. How are our memories mood-congruent?
Q9. How does reporting adolescent’s ratings of parental warmth give little clue to how the same adolescents rate their parents six weeks later?
Q10. How do moods influence how we interpret other people’s behavior?
Q11. How do mood’s effect on retrieval help explain why moods persist
Read Pages 376-381
Q1. Detail memory researcher Danny Schacter’s seven sins of memory
Q2. How does age affect encoding efficiency?
Q3. Provide an example of encoding failure from the text
Q4. Describe Ebbinghuas’s famous forgetting curve
Q5. How do we explain forgetting curves, and what example did Harry Bahrick demonstrate?
Q6. If two people give you their numbers, why will each successive number be more difficult to recall? How did this phenomenon affect Ebbinghaus
Q7. How is retroactive interference minimized?
Q8. Describe the phenomenon called positive transfer
Q9. How id Michael Ross and his colleagues find that people unknowingly revise their own histories?
Q10. Provide an example of a reported case describing Freud’s concept of repression
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Read Pages 382-392
Q1. Describe the classic experiment demonstrating eyewitness accounts of memory reconstruction conducted by
Elizabeth Loftus, and John Palmer
Q2. How do we discriminate between memories of real and suggested events?
Q3. How do repeatedly imagining nonexistent actions and events create false memories?
Q4. Describe the research conducted by Richard Wiseman regarding misinformation?
Q5. How did Debra Poole and Stephen Lindsay replicate Piaget’s source amnesia?
Q6. How do our assumptions alter our perceptual memories?
Q7. Why do “hypnotically refreshed” memories of crimes so easily incorporate errors?
Q8. Describe the incident concerning Australian psychologist Donald Thompson and how it impacted his work concerning memory distortion?
Q9. What were the “memory wars” in the decade of the 1990’s
Q10. Describe the seven problems children’s witness accounts
Q11. Describe the results of implanted false memories by Elizabeth Loftus and her colleagues
Q12. Does the repression of threatening memories ever occur?
Q13. Describe the eight effective study techniques in improving memory