Question 1

Which of the following is most likely the prototype of the category "fruit"

Accepted Answer

A) olive 
B) apple 
C) persimmon 
D) blueberry 
A) olive 
B) apple 
C) persimmon 
D) blueberry

Question 2

A typical multiple-choice question on a psychology test is an example of a ___________ test of _________memory.

Accepted Answer

A) recall; implicit 
B) recall; explicit 
C) relearning; implicit 
D) recognition; explicit 
A) recall; implicit 
B) recall; explicit 
C) relearning; implicit 
D) recognition; explicit

Question 3

When answering such questions as "Who was your date to the Junior Prom" or "Which costume did you wear last Halloween" you are relying most explicitly on the memory process of:

Accepted Answer

A) encoding 
B) rehearsal 
C) priming 
D) retrieval 
A) encoding 
B) rehearsal 
C) priming 
D) retrieval

Question 4

An attorney's leading questions may provide information that distorts our memory for an experience. This is an example of the ________ effect.

Accepted Answer

The answer of An attorney's leading questions may provide information...

Question 5

Memories of which we're not consciously aware are called ________ memories.

Accepted Answer

A) internal 
B) subliminal 
C) subconscious 
D) implicit 
A) internal 
B) subliminal 
C) subconscious 
D) implicit

Question 6

Which of the following scientists could be considered a cognitive psychologist

Accepted Answer

A) Dr.Abdalla, who investigates problem solving 
B) Dr.Braithwaite, who studies formal reasoning processes 
C) Dr.Clark, who examines how people encode information from the environment 
D) All three scientists could be considered cognitive psychologists 
A) Dr.Abdalla, who investigates problem solving 
B) Dr.Braithwaite, who studies formal reasoning processes 
C) Dr.Clark, who examines how people encode information from the environment 
D) All three scientists could be considered cognitive psychologists

Question 7

"Cat food, cola, toothpaste," your roommate begins reciting items into the phone as you throw your books in the backseat and get into your car; you're supposed to hit the store on the way home. He continues to list a few more items. Finally, he wraps up: "Coffee creamer, spaghetti sauce, dish liquid, and ice tea mix." You forget a couple of things, but you do manage to get the cat food, cola, and toothpaste. Your memory for these items reflects the _________ effect.

Accepted Answer

A) primacy 
B) recency 
C) serial memory 
D) item order 
A) primacy 
B) recency 
C) serial memory 
D) item order

Question 8

In a memory experiment, Dr. Aziz gives one group of participants a recognition test of a list of words they had seen earlier; another group is asked to recall the words. What might you predict regarding the relative performance of the two groups on the memory test

Accepted Answer

A) The two groups should perform equivalently. 
B) The recall group should outperform the recognition group. 
C) The recall group should outperform the recognition group, as long as the test is given shortly after participants first see the words. 
D) The recognition group should outperform the recall group. 
E) No consistent prediction can be made without a consideration of many other variables. 
A) The two groups should perform equivalently. 
B) The recall group should outperform the recognition group. 
C) The recall group should outperform the recognition group, as long as the test is given shortly after participants first see the words. 
D) The recognition group should outperform the recall group. 
E) No consistent prediction can be made without a consideration of many other variables.

Question 9

Which of the following is the best reason for why we have trouble remembering the license plate number of a car that we just passed ten minutes ago

Accepted Answer

A) Working memory lasts only a minute or so. 
B) License plate numbers are too 
C) We probably never encoded the number in the first place. 
D) The memory, though present, is too 
A) Working memory lasts only a minute or so. 
B) License plate numbers are too 
C) We probably never encoded the number in the first place. 
D) The memory, though present, is too

Question 10

Ron moved from Alabama to Georgia ten years ago. "My fifth-grade teacher made us memorize the names of all the counties in Alabama," Ron tells his friend Rory. Rory tests Ron by giving him a list of thirty counties - 15 Alabama counties, mixed in with 15 counties from other states. "Ok, pick out the Alabama counties," Rory challenges Ron. Which method does Rory's test use

Accepted Answer

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

Question 11

Massed practice yields poorer memory than does distributed practice.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Which of the following defines anterograde amnesia

Accepted Answer

A) The inability to retrieve events that occurred before a given time 
B) The inability to transfer information from short-term to long-term memory 
C) The strengthening of synaptic connections 
D) The loss of memory due to the passage of time 
A) The inability to retrieve events that occurred before a given time 
B) The inability to transfer information from short-term to long-term memory 
C) The strengthening of synaptic connections 
D) The loss of memory due to the passage of time

Question 13

Which of the following cognitive biases is correctly matched with a problem that illustrates it

Accepted Answer

A) Confirmation bias-Duncker's (1945) candle problem 
B) Functional fixedness-Wason's (1960) 2-4-6 problem 
C) Availability heuristic-determining whether more words begin with 'r' or have 'r' as the third letter 
D) None of these are correctly matched. 
A) Confirmation bias-Duncker's (1945) candle problem 
B) Functional fixedness-Wason's (1960) 2-4-6 problem 
C) Availability heuristic-determining whether more words begin with 'r' or have 'r' as the third letter 
D) None of these are correctly matched.

Question 14

I was a second-semester freshman. I was eating French fries in the college cafeteria when my friend Liz came up. She was wearing that plaid coat with her yellow skirt, along with that moss-green embroidered bag, the one with a Grecian urn embroidered on it. She told me the shuttle blew up. This is my _________ memory of the 1986 Challenger disaster.

Accepted Answer

The answer of I was a second-semester freshman. I was...

Question 15

The "recency effect" refers to the fact that:

Accepted Answer

A) the last items on a list are more likely to be remembered than the middle items 
B) the first several items on a list are more likely to be remembered than the middle items 
C) rehearsed items are more likely to be remembered than unrehearsed items 
D) the most personally relevant items on a list are most likely to be remembered 
A) the last items on a list are more likely to be remembered than the middle items 
B) the first several items on a list are more likely to be remembered than the middle items 
C) rehearsed items are more likely to be remembered than unrehearsed items 
D) the most personally relevant items on a list are most likely to be remembered

Question 16

Psychologists use the term _________ to refer to the ability to store and retrieve information over time.

Accepted Answer

A) learning 
B) memory 
C) cognition 
D) perception 
A) learning 
B) memory 
C) cognition 
D) perception

Question 17

"You'll probably do better on the test if you put more effort into understanding what the chapter's trying to say in the first place," one of your professors admonishes the class. You are reminded of the concept of ___________ encoding.

Accepted Answer

The answer of "You'll probably do better on the test...

Question 18

We are often prone to make judgments on the extent to which the things we observe match our expectations of what we think things should be like while ignoring the mathematical probabilities of their occurrence. This error is known as the

Accepted Answer

A) availability heuristic 
B) representativeness heuristic 
C) confirmation bias 
D) stereotypic bias 
A) availability heuristic 
B) representativeness heuristic 
C) confirmation bias 
D) stereotypic bias

Question 19

Psychologists use the term _________ to refer to the ability to store and retrieve information over time. The process of acquiring and using knowledge is called ________.

Accepted Answer

A) learning; perception 
B) memory; perception 
C) learning; cognition 
D) memory; cognition 
A) learning; perception 
B) memory; perception 
C) learning; cognition 
D) memory; cognition

Question 20

Which of the following is the best definition of the availability heuristic

Accepted Answer

A) Making judgments on the ease with which an event comes to mind 
B) Making judgments on the information that matches what we expect will happen 
C) Activated in memory and thus likely to be used in judgment 
D) Thinking about what "might have been" 
A) Making judgments on the ease with which an event comes to mind 
B) Making judgments on the information that matches what we expect will happen 
C) Activated in memory and thus likely to be used in judgment 
D) Thinking about what "might have been"

Which of the following is most likely the prototype of the category "fruit"

A typical multiple-choice question on a psychology test is an example of a ___ test of _memory.

When answering such questions as "Who was your date to the Junior Prom" or "Which costume did you wear last Halloween" you are relying most explicitly on the memory process of:

An attorney's leading questions may provide information that distorts our memory for an experience. This is an example of the ________ effect.

Memories of which we're not consciously aware are called ________ memories.

Which of the following scientists could be considered a cognitive psychologist

In a memory experiment, Dr. Aziz gives one group of participants a recognition test of a list of words they had seen earlier; another group is asked to recall the words. What might you predict regarding the relative performance of the two groups on the memory test

Which of the following is the best reason for why we have trouble remembering the license plate number of a car that we just passed ten minutes ago

Massed practice yields poorer memory than does distributed practice.

Which of the following defines anterograde amnesia

Which of the following cognitive biases is correctly matched with a problem that illustrates it

The "recency effect" refers to the fact that:

Psychologists use the term _________ to refer to the ability to store and retrieve information over time.

"You'll probably do better on the test if you put more effort into understanding what the chapter's trying to say in the first place," one of your professors admonishes the class. You are reminded of the concept of ___________ encoding.

We are often prone to make judgments on the extent to which the things we observe match our expectations of what we think things should be like while ignoring the mathematical probabilities of their occurrence. This error is known as the

Psychologists use the term _ to refer to the ability to store and retrieve information over time. The process of acquiring and using knowledge is called .

Which of the following is the best definition of the availability heuristic

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Exam 8: Remembering and Judging

Which of the following is most likely the prototype of the category "fruit"

A typical multiple-choice question on a psychology test is an example of a ___________ test of _________memory.

When answering such questions as "Who was your date to the Junior Prom" or "Which costume did you wear last Halloween" you are relying most explicitly on the memory process of:

An attorney's leading questions may provide information that distorts our memory for an experience. This is an example of the ________ effect.

Memories of which we're not consciously aware are called ________ memories.

Which of the following scientists could be considered a cognitive psychologist

In a memory experiment, Dr. Aziz gives one group of participants a recognition test of a list of words they had seen earlier; another group is asked to recall the words. What might you predict regarding the relative performance of the two groups on the memory test

Which of the following is the best reason for why we have trouble remembering the license plate number of a car that we just passed ten minutes ago

Massed practice yields poorer memory than does distributed practice.

Which of the following defines anterograde amnesia

Which of the following cognitive biases is correctly matched with a problem that illustrates it

The "recency effect" refers to the fact that:

Psychologists use the term _________ to refer to the ability to store and retrieve information over time.

"You'll probably do better on the test if you put more effort into understanding what the chapter's trying to say in the first place," one of your professors admonishes the class. You are reminded of the concept of ___________ encoding.

We are often prone to make judgments on the extent to which the things we observe match our expectations of what we think things should be like while ignoring the mathematical probabilities of their occurrence. This error is known as the

Psychologists use the term _________ to refer to the ability to store and retrieve information over time. The process of acquiring and using knowledge is called ________.

Which of the following is the best definition of the availability heuristic

Introducing Psychology

Psychological Science

Brains, Bodies, and Behavior

Sensing and Perceiving

States of Consciousness

Growing and Developing

Learning

Intelligence and Language

Emotions and Motivations

Psychology in Our Social Lives

Personality

Defining Psychological Disorders

Treating Psychological Disorders

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A typical multiple-choice question on a psychology test is an example of a ___ test of _memory.

Psychologists use the term _ to refer to the ability to store and retrieve information over time. The process of acquiring and using knowledge is called .