Question 1

We typically encode explicit memories by means of

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A)  classical conditioning.
B)  effortful processing.
C)  proactive interference.
D)  automatic processing.

Question 2

Research on young children's false eyewitness recollections has indicated that

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A)  children are less susceptible to source amnesia than adults.
B)  children are no more susceptible to the misinformation effect than adults.
C)  it is surprisingly difficult for both children and professional interviewers to reliably separate the children's true memories from false memories.
D)  all of these statements are true.

Question 3

Although Ron typically smokes two packs of cigarettes a day,he recalls smoking little more than a pack a day.This poor memory best illustrates

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A)  the misinformation effect.
B)  motivated forgetting.
C)  the spacing effect.
D)  storage decay.

Question 4

The inability to form new memories is called

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A)  repression.
B)  amnesia.
C)  the misinformation effect.
D)  retroactive interference.

Question 5

Answering questions about what she had read in her psychology textbook improves Shauna's memory of the material more effectively than rereading the textbook material.This best illustrates

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A)  parallel processing.
B)  the serial position effect.
C)  automatic processing.
D)  the testing effect.

Question 6

Which measure of memory did Ebbinghaus use to assess the impact of rehearsal on the retention of nonsense syllables?

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A)  recall
B)  recognition
C)  relearning
D)  recitation

Question 7

Explicit memories are

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A)  classically conditioned associations that are automatically processed.
B)  memories of physical skills such as how to ride a bike.
C)  memories of facts and personal events that can be consciously retrieved.
D)  memories that are formed by massed practice rather than by distributed practice.

Question 8

When an eyewitness to an auto accident is asked to describe what happened,which measure of memory is being used?

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A)  recognition
B)  rehearsal
C)  recall
D)  relearning

Question 9

Among contemporary memory researchers,increasing numbers think that ________ rarely,if ever,occurs.

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A)  retroactive interference
B)  automatic processing
C)  source amnesia
D)  repression

Question 10

Nancy was daydreaming about her college plans during a boring lecture on the history of computers.She doesn't remember that ENIAC was the first functioning digital computer because she wasn't paying attention.Nancy's poor memory is best explained in terms of

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A)  interference.
B)  encoding failure.
C)  storage decay.
D)  source amnesia.

Question 11

Research on the storage of memory indicates that

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A)  our brain can store new memories only if it discards some old memories.
B)  our capacity for storing information in our short-term working memory has no real limit.
C)  we do not process and store memories in only one spot in the brain.
D)  once memories are consolidated in storage,they can never be forgotten.

Question 12

Another term for implicit memory is ________ memory.

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A)  iconic
B)  short-term
C)  nondeclarative
D)  working

Question 13

Rehearsal is to encoding as retrieval cues are to

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A)  long-term potentiation.
B)  memory consolidation.
C)  priming.
D)  the serial position effect.

Question 14

The retention of encoded information over time refers to

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A)  effortful processing.
B)  implicit memory.
C)  the spacing effect.
D)  storage.

Question 15

Because her memory trace has faded,Dr.Jordan remembers much less about the organic chemistry she once learned well as a medical student.Her memory loss best illustrates

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A)  storage decay.
B)  proactive interference.
C)  encoding failure.
D)  repression.

Question 16

Source amnesia refers to

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A)  retaining classically conditioned associations without conscious awareness.
B)  banishing anxiety-arousing memories from conscious awareness.
C)  the automatic processing of information about how often things have happened.
D)  misrecalling when or where information was learned or imagined.

Question 17

Three years after people completed a Spanish course,they had forgotten much of the vocabulary they had learned.This research finding indicates that information is lost while it is

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A)  encoded.
B)  rehearsed.
C)  retrieved.
D)  in storage.

Question 18

Which of the following brain structures is central to remembering how to perform well-learned skills?

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A)  hippocampus
B)  hypothalamus
C)  basal ganglia
D)  amygdala

Question 19

The encoding of information directly into long-term storage without the aid of working memory best illustrates

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A)  chunking.
B)  automatic processing.
C)  iconic memory.
D)  the spacing effect.

Question 20

A measure of your memory in which you need to pick the correctly learned answer from a displayed list of options is known as a measure of

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A)  recall.
B)  recognition.
C)  reconstruction.
D)  relearning.

Exam 7: Memory

Which measure of memory did Ebbinghaus use to assess the impact of rehearsal on the retention of nonsense syllables?

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Another term for implicit memory is ________ memory.

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Which of the following brain structures is central to remembering how to perform well-learned skills?

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When an eyewitness to an auto accident is asked to describe what happened,which measure of memory is being used?

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Answering questions about what she had read in her psychology textbook improves Shauna's memory of the material more effectively than rereading the textbook material.This best illustrates

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The retention of encoded information over time refers to

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Rehearsal is to encoding as retrieval cues are to

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Although Ron typically smokes two packs of cigarettes a day,he recalls smoking little more than a pack a day.This poor memory best illustrates

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Research on the storage of memory indicates that

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Source amnesia refers to

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Nancy was daydreaming about her college plans during a boring lecture on the history of computers.She doesn't remember that ENIAC was the first functioning digital computer because she wasn't paying attention.Nancy's poor memory is best explained in terms of

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A measure of your memory in which you need to pick the correctly learned answer from a displayed list of options is known as a measure of

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The encoding of information directly into long-term storage without the aid of working memory best illustrates

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Three years after people completed a Spanish course,they had forgotten much of the vocabulary they had learned.This research finding indicates that information is lost while it is

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We typically encode explicit memories by means of

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Explicit memories are

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Because her memory trace has faded,Dr.Jordan remembers much less about the organic chemistry she once learned well as a medical student.Her memory loss best illustrates

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Among contemporary memory researchers,increasing numbers think that ________ rarely,if ever,occurs.

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The inability to form new memories is called

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Research on young children's false eyewitness recollections has indicated that

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