Question 1

If you remember the events of moving into your current home,what type of memory is that?

Accepted Answer

A)  semantic
B)  implicit
C)  episodic
D)  short-term

Question 2

In psychology,the term memory refers to,

Accepted Answer

A)  generally,the retention of information.
B)  specifically,the retention of facts that rarely change.
C)  specifically,the retention of facts that seldom change.
D)  specifically,the retention of facts that never change.

Question 3

According to the principle of encoding specificity,if you want to do well on a particular exam you should

Accepted Answer

A)  study in a variety of places.
B)  make your study conditions as similar as possible to the conditions under which you will be tested.
C)  study at different times of the day.
D)  try to study as much material as possible the night before the exam.

Question 4

You memorize a list of paired associates including "stone-rock." Later someone asks you what word on the list refers to a kind of music,and you do not think of the word "rock." This result is an example of the ____________________ principle.

Accepted Answer

The answer of You memorize a list of paired associates...

Question 5

What causes Korsakoff's syndrome?

Accepted Answer

A)  traumatic emotional experiences
B)  prolonged deficiency of vitamin B-1
C)  damage to the corpus callosum
D)  a genetic defect

Question 6

The vast majority of people who develop Alzheimer's disease have an onset that begins

Accepted Answer

A)  between the ages of 45-50.
B)  between the ages of 50-55.
C)  between the ages of 55-60.
D)  after age 60.

Question 7

The hindsight bias refers to people's tendency to

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A)  overestimate their own predictions of an event after the event occurs.
B)  underestimate their own predictions of an event after the event occurs.
C)  remember the early items in a list better than the later items in a list.
D)  devalue events that have already taken place and failed to live up to their expectations.

Question 8

To use the method of loci in order to memorize a list of names,what is the first thing to do?

Accepted Answer

A)  Arrange the list of names in some logical order.
B)  Memorize a list of places in order.
C)  Find out as much as possible about each of the named people.
D)  Recite the list out loud a few times.

Question 9

When you read the word "slice" on a list,you think of it as something you do to a golf ball.Later when someone asks you which word on the list means the same thing as "piece," you cannot remember.Why?

Accepted Answer

A)  proactive interference
B)  encoding specificity principle
C)  depth-of-processing principle
D)  state-dependent memory

Question 10

Forgetting where or how you learned something is source amnesia.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Professor Yawnmore asks you to write by memory a list of all the recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize.What kind of memory test is this?

Accepted Answer

A)  free recall
B)  cued recall
C)  recognition
D)  savings

Question 12

If you are given an English word and asked to give the French equivalent,your memory is being tested by ____________________.

Accepted Answer

The answer of If you are given an English word...

Question 13

Infant amnesia refers to

Accepted Answer

A)  the inability to remember any events that occur before language has developed.
B)  the near absence of procedural memory until age two or three.
C)  the inability to form long term memories until the age of five years.
D)  the near absence of early declarative memories.

Question 14

In one experiment an undergraduate spent a year and a half memorizing lists of numbers and recalling them immediately.By the end of the year,how had his memory changed-if at all?

Accepted Answer

A)  He had increased the capacity of his short-term memory not only for numbers (which he had practiced) but also for letters (which he had not practiced) .
B)  He had improved his ability to use chunking to store more numbers in his short-term memory.
C)  The capacity of his short-term memory had decreased from seven to five.
D)  His ability to memorize had not changed in any way.

Question 15

The telephone company's use of area codes followed by different 4-digit phone numbers makes it easier to remember the numbers of several different friends because of

Accepted Answer

A)  chunking.
B)  sensory storage.
C)  the von Restorff effect.
D)  matrix memory.

Question 16

Despite severe memory impairments,most brain-damaged patients with amnesia continue to perform well on

Accepted Answer

A)  explicit memory tests.
B)  tests of implicit,but not procedural,memory.
C)  tests of procedural,but not implicit,memory.
D)  tests of either implicit or procedural memory.

Question 17

When modern-day college students memorize one of the lists that Ebbinghaus memorized,what is generally true about the rate of forgetting?

Accepted Answer

A)  College students forget the items on the list much quicker than Ebbinghaus did.
B)  College students forget at about the same rate Ebbinghaus did.
C)  College students remember the items better than Ebbinghaus did.
D)  College students forget at a faster rate than Ebbinghaus,but show more spontaneous recovery.

Question 18

When Ebbinghaus pioneered the experimental study of memory,the information he memorized was

Accepted Answer

A)  poetry.
B)  scripture verses.
C)  nonsense syllables.
D)  word pairs.

Question 19

Paul and Pam both got 85% correct on the first test.Pam studied hard for the next two tests while Paul quit studying altogether.Now,strangely,the final exam turns out to be almost identical to the first test.Who will do better on the final exam,and why?

Accepted Answer

A)  Paul,because Pam will be hampered by proactive interference.
B)  Paul,because Pam will be hampered by retroactive interference.
C)  Pam,because Paul will be hampered by proactive interference.
D)  Pam,because Paul will be hampered by retroactive interference.

Question 20

Which of the following is a conclusion that most psychologists would agree with regarding the memory for traumatic events?

Accepted Answer

A)  Some people have had abusive experiences in childhood that they later cannot remember.
B)  Dissociation is the best explanation for memories that have been forgotten.
C)  Recovering memories of traumatic events is necessary for effective therapy.
D)  Any memory that a person has must be accurate.

Exam 7: Memory

When you read the word "slice" on a list,you think of it as something you do to a golf ball.Later when someone asks you which word on the list means the same thing as "piece," you cannot remember.Why?

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The vast majority of people who develop Alzheimer's disease have an onset that begins

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You memorize a list of paired associates including "stone-rock." Later someone asks you what word on the list refers to a kind of music,and you do not think of the word "rock." This result is an example of the ____________________ principle.

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If you remember the events of moving into your current home,what type of memory is that?

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Forgetting where or how you learned something is source amnesia.

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In one experiment an undergraduate spent a year and a half memorizing lists of numbers and recalling them immediately.By the end of the year,how had his memory changed-if at all?

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To use the method of loci in order to memorize a list of names,what is the first thing to do?

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The hindsight bias refers to people's tendency to

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The telephone company's use of area codes followed by different 4-digit phone numbers makes it easier to remember the numbers of several different friends because of

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When modern-day college students memorize one of the lists that Ebbinghaus memorized,what is generally true about the rate of forgetting?

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What causes Korsakoff's syndrome?

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Infant amnesia refers to

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In psychology,the term memory refers to,

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According to the principle of encoding specificity,if you want to do well on a particular exam you should

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Professor Yawnmore asks you to write by memory a list of all the recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize.What kind of memory test is this?

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Paul and Pam both got 85% correct on the first test.Pam studied hard for the next two tests while Paul quit studying altogether.Now,strangely,the final exam turns out to be almost identical to the first test.Who will do better on the final exam,and why?

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Despite severe memory impairments,most brain-damaged patients with amnesia continue to perform well on

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When Ebbinghaus pioneered the experimental study of memory,the information he memorized was

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If you are given an English word and asked to give the French equivalent,your memory is being tested by ____________________.

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Which of the following is a conclusion that most psychologists would agree with regarding the memory for traumatic events?

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