Question 1

Sometimes we exaggerate the difference between what we feel or believe now and what we felt or believed in the past.This phenomenon is known as _____ bias.

Accepted Answer

A) consistency 
B) change 
C) misattribution 
D) self-confirmation 
A) consistency 
B) change 
C) misattribution 
D) self-confirmation

Question 2

Forty-year-old Renard suffered a traumatic brain injury that injured his hippocampus.He is LEAST likely to forget:

Accepted Answer

A) what he ate for breakfast that day. 
B) the name of his first girlfriend. 
C) whether or not he paid his bills last week. 
D) a work deadline he must meet by tomorrow. 
A) what he ate for breakfast that day. 
B) the name of his first girlfriend. 
C) whether or not he paid his bills last week. 
D) a work deadline he must meet by tomorrow.

Question 3

The memory that Paris is the capital of France is a semantic memory.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Don's parents suggest revisiting a vacation spot that they went to five years earlier.Don recalls vividly an unpleasant experience on that vacation;he immediately refuses to go a second time and insists on vacationing somewhere else.What type of memory does Don use to arrive at his strong opposition to his parent's proposition?

Accepted Answer

A) semantic 
B) procedural 
C) implicit 
D) episodic 
A) semantic 
B) procedural 
C) implicit 
D) episodic

Question 5

The _____ plays a critical role in recognizing new words because the task involves the ability to link visual and verbal information.

Accepted Answer

A) visuo-spatial sketchpad 
B) episodic buffer 
C) rehearsal executive 
D) phonological loop 
A) visuo-spatial sketchpad 
B) episodic buffer 
C) rehearsal executive 
D) phonological loop

Question 6

Which statement would a person MOST likely remember later the same day?

Accepted Answer

A) Pablo Picasso represents the Cubist movement in art. 
B) Margaret Floy Washburn was the first woman to receive a PhD in psychology. 
C) Poe wrote,"The moon never beams without bringing me dreams of the beautiful Annabel Lee." 
D) A black-widow spider is crawling up your leg. 
A) Pablo Picasso represents the Cubist movement in art. 
B) Margaret Floy Washburn was the first woman to receive a PhD in psychology. 
C) Poe wrote,"The moon never beams without bringing me dreams of the beautiful Annabel Lee." 
D) A black-widow spider is crawling up your leg.

Question 7

_____ occurs when information learned later impairs memory for information acquired earlier.

Accepted Answer

A) Retroactive interference 
B) Retrograde amnesia 
C) Proactive interference 
D) Anterograde amnesia 
A) Retroactive interference 
B) Retrograde amnesia 
C) Proactive interference 
D) Anterograde amnesia

Question 8

Research has indicated that,50 years after graduation,people can accurately recognize _____% of their classmates from yearbook photographs.

Accepted Answer

A) 7 
B) 50 
C) 75 
D) 90 
A) 7 
B) 50 
C) 75 
D) 90

Question 9

The persistence of memory is advantageous in the sense that it:

Accepted Answer

A) highlights the flexibility of memory. 
B) helps us learn from and avoid traumatic experiences that could threaten our survival. 
C) usually results in improvements in psychological well-being. 
D) opposes the processes of dementia that occur with aging. 
A) highlights the flexibility of memory. 
B) helps us learn from and avoid traumatic experiences that could threaten our survival. 
C) usually results in improvements in psychological well-being. 
D) opposes the processes of dementia that occur with aging.

Question 10

As time passes,we begin to lose information in our long-term memory store at a faster and faster rate.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

The amygdala is involved in the consolidation of emotional memories.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

When attention is divided,what happens in the brain?

Accepted Answer

A) There is less activity in the lower left frontal lobe. 
B) There is greater activity in the lower left frontal lobe. 
C) There is less activity in the upper right frontal lobe. 
D) There is greater hippocampal activity. 
A) There is less activity in the lower left frontal lobe. 
B) There is greater activity in the lower left frontal lobe. 
C) There is less activity in the upper right frontal lobe. 
D) There is greater hippocampal activity.

Question 13

A person with only retrograde amnesia cannot remember aspects of his or her past but can form new memories.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Memories are made by:

Accepted Answer

A) transforming perceptions into sensory experiences. 
B) combining existing information in the brain with new information from our senses. 
C) recording information coming from our senses. 
D) creating exact duplicates of perceptual experiences in the hippocampus. 
A) transforming perceptions into sensory experiences. 
B) combining existing information in the brain with new information from our senses. 
C) recording information coming from our senses. 
D) creating exact duplicates of perceptual experiences in the hippocampus.

Question 15

The visuo-spatial sketchpad is a subsystem of working memory that stores and manipulates:

Accepted Answer

A) sensory experiences. 
B) visual images. 
C) verbal information. 
D) numerical information. 
A) sensory experiences. 
B) visual images. 
C) verbal information. 
D) numerical information.

Question 16

Recent evidence suggests that _____ memory may contribute to divergent creative thinking.

Accepted Answer

A) episodic 
B) procedural 
C) implicit 
D) semantic 
A) episodic 
B) procedural 
C) implicit 
D) semantic

Question 17

Renata can remember the first twenty elements in the periodic table in order but cannot recall the names of the other elements.This BEST illustrates the _____ effect.

Accepted Answer

A) recency 
B) primacy 
C) ordinal position 
D) serial position 
A) recency 
B) primacy 
C) ordinal position 
D) serial position

Question 18

Use the following to answer questions :
Scenario II
Famous within psychology,patient HM had parts of his temporal lobes-including his hippocampus-removed to stop incurable and life-threatening epileptic seizures.The surgery was successful;however,patient HM was left with a severe case of anterograde amnesia.Subsequent tests found that his short-term and implicit memory systems were not affected by the surgery.
-(Scenario II)The hippocampus is crucial for:

Accepted Answer

A) manipulating information in working memory. 
B) transferring information from the short- to the long-term memory store. 
C) remembering events that occurred many years ago. 
D) remembering events that occurred in the last 20 seconds. 
A) manipulating information in working memory. 
B) transferring information from the short- to the long-term memory store. 
C) remembering events that occurred many years ago. 
D) remembering events that occurred in the last 20 seconds.

Question 19

The brain structure that is believed to act as an index linking information together is the:

Accepted Answer

A) frontal lobe. 
B) pituitary gland. 
C) hippocampus. 
D) amygdala. 
A) frontal lobe. 
B) pituitary gland. 
C) hippocampus. 
D) amygdala.

Question 20

Sperling flashed a matrix of letters for 1/20th of a second to participants.Sperling found that the participants:

Accepted Answer

A) attempted to encode the letters from left to right. 
B) attempted to encode the letters from top to bottom. 
C) automatically stored the entire matrix of letters but for only a brief moment. 
D) automatically stored the entire matrix of letters for up to a minute after the presentation. 
A) attempted to encode the letters from left to right. 
B) attempted to encode the letters from top to bottom. 
C) automatically stored the entire matrix of letters but for only a brief moment. 
D) automatically stored the entire matrix of letters for up to a minute after the presentation.

Sometimes we exaggerate the difference between what we feel or believe now and what we felt or believed in the past.This phenomenon is known as _____ bias.

Forty-year-old Renard suffered a traumatic brain injury that injured his hippocampus.He is LEAST likely to forget:

The memory that Paris is the capital of France is a semantic memory.

The _____ plays a critical role in recognizing new words because the task involves the ability to link visual and verbal information.

Which statement would a person MOST likely remember later the same day?

_____ occurs when information learned later impairs memory for information acquired earlier.

Research has indicated that,50 years after graduation,people can accurately recognize _____% of their classmates from yearbook photographs.

The persistence of memory is advantageous in the sense that it:

As time passes,we begin to lose information in our long-term memory store at a faster and faster rate.

The amygdala is involved in the consolidation of emotional memories.

When attention is divided,what happens in the brain?

A person with only retrograde amnesia cannot remember aspects of his or her past but can form new memories.

Memories are made by:

The visuo-spatial sketchpad is a subsystem of working memory that stores and manipulates:

Recent evidence suggests that _____ memory may contribute to divergent creative thinking.

Renata can remember the first twenty elements in the periodic table in order but cannot recall the names of the other elements.This BEST illustrates the _____ effect.

The brain structure that is believed to act as an index linking information together is the:

Sperling flashed a matrix of letters for 1/20th of a second to participants.Sperling found that the participants:

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Exam 6: Memory

Sometimes we exaggerate the difference between what we feel or believe now and what we felt or believed in the past.This phenomenon is known as _____ bias.

Forty-year-old Renard suffered a traumatic brain injury that injured his hippocampus.He is LEAST likely to forget:

The memory that Paris is the capital of France is a semantic memory.

The _____ plays a critical role in recognizing new words because the task involves the ability to link visual and verbal information.

Which statement would a person MOST likely remember later the same day?

_____ occurs when information learned later impairs memory for information acquired earlier.

Research has indicated that,50 years after graduation,people can accurately recognize _____% of their classmates from yearbook photographs.

The persistence of memory is advantageous in the sense that it:

As time passes,we begin to lose information in our long-term memory store at a faster and faster rate.

The amygdala is involved in the consolidation of emotional memories.

When attention is divided,what happens in the brain?

A person with only retrograde amnesia cannot remember aspects of his or her past but can form new memories.

Memories are made by:

The visuo-spatial sketchpad is a subsystem of working memory that stores and manipulates:

Recent evidence suggests that _____ memory may contribute to divergent creative thinking.

Renata can remember the first twenty elements in the periodic table in order but cannot recall the names of the other elements.This BEST illustrates the _____ effect.

The brain structure that is believed to act as an index linking information together is the:

Sperling flashed a matrix of letters for 1/20th of a second to participants.Sperling found that the participants:

Psychology: Evolution of a Science

Methods in Psychology

Neuroscience and Behavior

Sensation and Perception

Consciousness

Learning

Emotion and Motivation

Language and Thought

Intelligence

Development

Personality

Social Psychology

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Psychological Disorders

Treatment of Psychological Disorders

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