Question 1

How well do people typically remember experiences of kidnapping,torture,and so forth?​

Accepted Answer

A) They repress the memories and nothing can help them recall the events. 
B) ​Unless the events were from early childhood, people remembered them consciously. 
C) ​Nearly all repress the memories, but therapy can help them recall the events accurately. 
D) ​People grossly distort the memories to make them seem harmless. 
A) They repress the memories and nothing can help them recall the events. 
B) ​Unless the events were from early childhood, people remembered them consciously. 
C) ​Nearly all repress the memories, but therapy can help them recall the events accurately. 
D) ​People grossly distort the memories to make them seem harmless.

Question 2

​After people watch a video,an experimenter asks about something not on the video,such as "Did you see the children get onto the school bus?" How does that question affect people's memory,if at all?

Accepted Answer

A) People become more careful about everything else they describe from the video. 
B) ​Most people report few details from the video. 
C) ​Many people report seeing the suggested but false event. 
D) ​Asking such a question has no measurable effect on behavior. 
A) People become more careful about everything else they describe from the video. 
B) ​Most people report few details from the video. 
C) ​Many people report seeing the suggested but false event. 
D) ​Asking such a question has no measurable effect on behavior.

Question 3

Infant rats and mice quickly forget early memories,but infant guinea pigs remember them.Why?​

Accepted Answer

A) Infant rats and mice form more new neurons than guinea pigs do. 
B) ​Infant rats and mice show slower maturation of the hippocampus. 
C) ​Infant rats and mice are more likely to encounter painful experiences. 
D) ​Infant rats and mice consolidate their memories more slowly. 
A) Infant rats and mice form more new neurons than guinea pigs do. 
B) ​Infant rats and mice show slower maturation of the hippocampus. 
C) ​Infant rats and mice are more likely to encounter painful experiences. 
D) ​Infant rats and mice consolidate their memories more slowly.

Question 4

If you plan to spend 10 hours studying for a test,how should you budget your time?​

Accepted Answer

A) Spread out your study time over many half-hour or one-hour sessions. 
B) ​Study for 10 hours at a time, a week before the test. 
C) ​Study for 5 hours a week before the test and another 5 hours two days before the test. 
D) ​Any of these strategies would be equally effective. 
A) Spread out your study time over many half-hour or one-hour sessions. 
B) ​Study for 10 hours at a time, a week before the test. 
C) ​Study for 5 hours a week before the test and another 5 hours two days before the test. 
D) ​Any of these strategies would be equally effective.

Question 5

​What is meant by "working memory"?

Accepted Answer

A) Memory that is working properly 
B) ​Memory that requires much work to recall 
C) ​Memory about how to perform a type of work 
D) ​Information you are working with at the moment 
A) Memory that is working properly 
B) ​Memory that requires much work to recall 
C) ​Memory about how to perform a type of work 
D) ​Information you are working with at the moment

Question 6

What did Freud mean by the term repression?​

Accepted Answer

A) Causing a painful memory to become unconscious 
B) ​Preventing someone from doing something 
C) ​Separating pleasant memories from unpleasant memories 
D) ​Consolidating a short-term memory into a long-term memory 
A) Causing a painful memory to become unconscious 
B) ​Preventing someone from doing something 
C) ​Separating pleasant memories from unpleasant memories 
D) ​Consolidating a short-term memory into a long-term memory

Question 7

Students in group A read and reread aChapter for an hour.Those in group B also spend an hour,but they are interrupted four times to try to answer questions about the material.What happens?​

Accepted Answer

A) Those in group A remember the material better. 
B) ​Those in group B remember the material better. 
C) ​Those in group B remember better at first, but those in group A remember longer. 
D) ​Students in the two groups remember about equally. 
A) Those in group A remember the material better. 
B) ​Those in group B remember the material better. 
C) ​Those in group B remember better at first, but those in group A remember longer. 
D) ​Students in the two groups remember about equally.

Question 8

The patient H.M.(Henry Molaison)suffered amnesia after damage to which brain area?​

Accepted Answer

A) Hippocampus 
B) Visual cortex 
C) ​Corpus callosum 
D) ​Thalamus 
A) Hippocampus 
B) Visual cortex 
C) ​Corpus callosum 
D) ​Thalamus

Question 9

A student spent a year and a half practicing his ability to memorize sequences of numbers.By what means did he improve his ability?​

Accepted Answer

A) Proactive interference 
B) ​Chunking 
C) ​Procedural memory 
D) ​Confabulation 
A) Proactive interference 
B) ​Chunking 
C) ​Procedural memory 
D) ​Confabulation

Question 10

Your memory of how you spent your time last Saturday is an example of what?​

Accepted Answer

A) Procedural memory 
B) ​Implicit memory 
C) ​Semantic memory 
D) ​Episodic memory 
A) Procedural memory 
B) ​Implicit memory 
C) ​Semantic memory 
D) ​Episodic memory

Question 11

Professor Kennedy learns the names of all the students in her class each year.As a result of retroactive interference,what is she likely to forget?​

Accepted Answer

A) The names of her most unusual students, both past and present. 
B) ​The names of her favorite students, both past and present. 
C) ​The names of students from previous years. 
D) ​The names of students in her current class. 
A) The names of her most unusual students, both past and present. 
B) ​The names of her favorite students, both past and present. 
C) ​The names of students from previous years. 
D) ​The names of students in her current class.

Question 12

​What did Ebbinghaus measure in his memory research?

Accepted Answer

A) Which brain areas are most active during memory recall 
B) ​What types of people memorize something most correctly 
C) ​How old children have to be before they show evidence of memory 
D) ​How long it takes to memorize a list 
A) Which brain areas are most active during memory recall 
B) ​What types of people memorize something most correctly 
C) ​How old children have to be before they show evidence of memory 
D) ​How long it takes to memorize a list

Question 13

​To memorize a list of Verdi's operas in order of publication,you imagine each one at a location between your home and your grandparents' home.What did you use?

Accepted Answer

A) The law of effect 
B) ​The availability heuristic 
C) ​The method of loci 
D) ​The Stroop effect 
A) The law of effect 
B) ​The availability heuristic 
C) ​The method of loci 
D) ​The Stroop effect

Question 14

​A police lineup is which type of memory test?

Accepted Answer

A) Free recall 
B) ​Cued recall 
C) ​Recognition 
D) ​Implicit 
A) Free recall 
B) ​Cued recall 
C) ​Recognition 
D) ​Implicit

Question 15

​When Ebbinghaus studied memory,how did he assure that the materials were unfamiliar?

Accepted Answer

A) He used lists of foreign words. 
B) ​He used lists of nonsense syllables. 
C) ​He used facts from ancient history. 
D) ​He used details from books he had not read. 
A) He used lists of foreign words. 
B) ​He used lists of nonsense syllables. 
C) ​He used facts from ancient history. 
D) ​He used details from books he had not read.

Question 16

After Hermann Ebbinghaus learned a new list,he forgot it faster than most college students do.Why did Ebbinghaus forget so rapidly?​

Accepted Answer

A) Confabulation 
B) ​Repression 
C) ​Proactive interference 
D) ​Retrograde amnesia 
A) Confabulation 
B) ​Repression 
C) ​Proactive interference 
D) ​Retrograde amnesia

Question 17

According to the encoding specificity principle,which retrieval cues are best for recalling a memory?​

Accepted Answer

A) The associations you formed at the time of learning 
B) ​Highly abstract concepts 
C) ​Terms that would be easy to represent in a drawing or photograph 
D) ​Terms that are common in the mythology of ancient civilizations 
A) The associations you formed at the time of learning 
B) ​Highly abstract concepts 
C) ​Terms that would be easy to represent in a drawing or photograph 
D) ​Terms that are common in the mythology of ancient civilizations

Question 18

​Despite patient H.M.'s severe amnesia,what was he nevertheless able to learn?

Accepted Answer

A) The names of the people he met 
B) ​New motor skills 
C) ​The meanings of new words 
D) ​Historical facts 
A) The names of the people he met 
B) ​New motor skills 
C) ​The meanings of new words 
D) ​Historical facts

Question 19

​"Flashbulb" memories of highly emotional events have what characteristic?
They are accurate but not detailed or confident.They are accurate but not detailed or confident.

Accepted Answer

A) They are detailed and confident but not always accurate. 
B) ​They are accurate but not detailed or confident. 
C) ​They are detailed, confident, and accurate. 
D) ​They are neither detailed, confident, nor accurate. 
A) They are detailed and confident but not always accurate. 
B) ​They are accurate but not detailed or confident. 
C) ​They are detailed, confident, and accurate. 
D) ​They are neither detailed, confident, nor accurate.

Question 20

Remembering your most recent visit to your cousins is what type of memory?​

Accepted Answer

A) Procedural memory 
B) ​Implicit memory 
C) ​Semantic memory 
D) ​Episodic memory 
A) Procedural memory 
B) ​Implicit memory 
C) ​Semantic memory 
D) ​Episodic memory

Exam 7: Memory

How well do people typically remember experiences of kidnapping,torture,and so forth?​

​After people watch a video,an experimenter asks about something not on the video,such as "Did you see the children get onto the school bus?" How does that question affect people's memory,if at all?

Infant rats and mice quickly forget early memories,but infant guinea pigs remember them.Why?​

If you plan to spend 10 hours studying for a test,how should you budget your time?​

​What is meant by "working memory"?

What did Freud mean by the term repression?​

Students in group A read and reread aChapter for an hour.Those in group B also spend an hour,but they are interrupted four times to try to answer questions about the material.What happens?​

The patient H.M.(Henry Molaison)suffered amnesia after damage to which brain area?​

A student spent a year and a half practicing his ability to memorize sequences of numbers.By what means did he improve his ability?​

Your memory of how you spent your time last Saturday is an example of what?​

Professor Kennedy learns the names of all the students in her class each year.As a result of retroactive interference,what is she likely to forget?​

​What did Ebbinghaus measure in his memory research?

​To memorize a list of Verdi's operas in order of publication,you imagine each one at a location between your home and your grandparents' home.What did you use?

​A police lineup is which type of memory test?

​When Ebbinghaus studied memory,how did he assure that the materials were unfamiliar?

After Hermann Ebbinghaus learned a new list,he forgot it faster than most college students do.Why did Ebbinghaus forget so rapidly?​

According to the encoding specificity principle,which retrieval cues are best for recalling a memory?​

​Despite patient H.M.'s severe amnesia,what was he nevertheless able to learn?

​"Flashbulb" memories of highly emotional events have what characteristic? They are accurate but not detailed or confident.They are accurate but not detailed or confident.

Remembering your most recent visit to your cousins is what type of memory?​

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How well do people typically remember experiences of kidnapping,torture,and so forth?

After people watch a video,an experimenter asks about something not on the video,such as "Did you see the children get onto the school bus?" How does that question affect people's memory,if at all?

Infant rats and mice quickly forget early memories,but infant guinea pigs remember them.Why?

If you plan to spend 10 hours studying for a test,how should you budget your time?

What is meant by "working memory"?

What did Freud mean by the term repression?

Students in group A read and reread aChapter for an hour.Those in group B also spend an hour,but they are interrupted four times to try to answer questions about the material.What happens?

The patient H.M.(Henry Molaison)suffered amnesia after damage to which brain area?

A student spent a year and a half practicing his ability to memorize sequences of numbers.By what means did he improve his ability?

Your memory of how you spent your time last Saturday is an example of what?

Professor Kennedy learns the names of all the students in her class each year.As a result of retroactive interference,what is she likely to forget?

What did Ebbinghaus measure in his memory research?

To memorize a list of Verdi's operas in order of publication,you imagine each one at a location between your home and your grandparents' home.What did you use?

A police lineup is which type of memory test?

When Ebbinghaus studied memory,how did he assure that the materials were unfamiliar?

After Hermann Ebbinghaus learned a new list,he forgot it faster than most college students do.Why did Ebbinghaus forget so rapidly?

According to the encoding specificity principle,which retrieval cues are best for recalling a memory?

Despite patient H.M.'s severe amnesia,what was he nevertheless able to learn?

"Flashbulb" memories of highly emotional events have what characteristic? They are accurate but not detailed or confident.They are accurate but not detailed or confident.

Remembering your most recent visit to your cousins is what type of memory?