Exam 2 Review

Which area of the brain is directly involved with long-term memory?

• Cerebellum
• Amygdala
• Hippocampus
• Frontal Lobe

Which of the following is most helpful for learning and retaining information?

• Spaced repetition

• Cramming before exams
• Deep processing

• Passive reading

Information is better remembered when the context at retrieval matches the context at encoding. What is this phenomenon called?

• Self-reference effect

• Serial position effect
• Encoding specificity principle

• Shallow processing theory

"____" amnesia refers to difficulty remembering past events; "____" amnesia refers to difficulty with acquiring new information and using working memory.

• retrograde; anterograde
• semantic; episodic
• implicit; explicit
• short-term; long-term

True or False: Memory is better if learning occurs over a condensed period, rather than spread out.

• True

• False

Being aware of our own thinking patterns relies on:

• metacognition
• self-awareness
• cognitive dissonance
• emotional intelligence

Being able to retrieve information easily due to past stimulation of similar information is known as:

• Reinforcement
• Conditioning
• Priming
• Recall

Connections between ideas in a memory network are called:

• nodes of relatedness

• distributed links

• related paths

• associative links

Mental imagery and actual perception both activate:

• visual-processing regions.

• they don't activate similar regions.

• the retina.

• the optic nerve.

Which approach utilizes how well an item fits into a category based on comparing it to other category members?

• Prototype

• Feature-based

• Typicality

• Exemplar