Question 1

What risk arises from the phenomenon of source amnesia?​

Accepted Answer

A) You might forget something that you had promised to do. 
B) ​You might forget the details of something you read as an assignment. 
C) ​You might trust something you heard from an unreliable rumor. 
D) ​You might show up at the wrong time or place for an appointment. 
A) You might forget something that you had promised to do. 
B) ​You might forget the details of something you read as an assignment. 
C) ​You might trust something you heard from an unreliable rumor. 
D) ​You might show up at the wrong time or place for an appointment.

Question 2

Which of these is an example of source amnesia?​

Accepted Answer

A) Reading complicated information and then forgetting it 
B) ​Reading complicated information and remembering only the main point 
C) ​Reading false information and thinking you already knew that 
D) ​Reading false information and then forgetting it 
A) Reading complicated information and then forgetting it 
B) ​Reading complicated information and remembering only the main point 
C) ​Reading false information and thinking you already knew that 
D) ​Reading false information and then forgetting it

Question 3

​What is unusual about implicit memories?

Accepted Answer

A) You can show implicit memory without realizing it. 
B) ​Implicit memory does not require brain activity. 
C) ​Implicit memory becomes stronger and stronger after a delay. 
D) ​Implicit memory describes an event that did not actually occur. 
A) You can show implicit memory without realizing it. 
B) ​Implicit memory does not require brain activity. 
C) ​Implicit memory becomes stronger and stronger after a delay. 
D) ​Implicit memory describes an event that did not actually occur.

Question 4

Which of the following improves memory?​

Accepted Answer

A) Repression 
B) ​Depth of processing 
C) ​Retroactive interference 
D) ​Proactive interference 
A) Repression 
B) ​Depth of processing 
C) ​Retroactive interference 
D) ​Proactive interference

Question 5

​When you read the word fall on a list,you think of it as a season of the year.Later when someone asks which word on the list means a way to get injured,you don't think of fall.Why?

Accepted Answer

A) Hindsight bias 
B) ​Implicit memory 
C) ​Depth of processing 
D) ​Encoding specificity 
A) Hindsight bias 
B) ​Implicit memory 
C) ​Depth of processing 
D) ​Encoding specificity

Question 6

​After brain damage,patient H.M.had severe memory problems,but was nearly normal in what type of learning?

Accepted Answer

A) Learning the meanings of new words 
B) ​Forming new episodic memories 
C) ​Ability to imagine the future 
D) ​Learning new skills 
A) Learning the meanings of new words 
B) ​Forming new episodic memories 
C) ​Ability to imagine the future 
D) ​Learning new skills

Question 7

After brain damage,patient H.M.showed great deficits in which of the following?​

Accepted Answer

A) Procedural memory 
B) ​Short-term memory 
C) ​Episodic memory 
D) ​Implicit memory 
A) Procedural memory 
B) ​Short-term memory 
C) ​Episodic memory 
D) ​Implicit memory

Question 8

​What is distinctive of long-term memory,compared to short-term memory?

Accepted Answer

A) It is limited to skill information that we cannot easily express in words. 
B) ​It has greater capacity to store information. 
C) ​It stores information in terms of sounds instead of meanings. 
D) ​Whenever it adds a new item it has to discard an older item. 
A) It is limited to skill information that we cannot easily express in words. 
B) ​It has greater capacity to store information. 
C) ​It stores information in terms of sounds instead of meanings. 
D) ​Whenever it adds a new item it has to discard an older item.

Question 9

Suppose your final exam is just one essay question: "Describe everything you learned in this course!" What type of memory test is that?​

Accepted Answer

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

Question 10

Several experiments showed that short-term memory fades rapidly unless it is rehearsed.What aspect of the original experiment increased the probability of forgetting?

Accepted Answer

A) People were memorizing meaningless material. 
B) ​The experiment was conducted before 8 a.m. 
C) ​The participants were inmates at a mental hospital. 
D) ​The laboratory room was full of distracting stimuli. 
A) People were memorizing meaningless material. 
B) ​The experiment was conducted before 8 a.m. 
C) ​The participants were inmates at a mental hospital. 
D) ​The laboratory room was full of distracting stimuli.

Question 11

People with prefrontal cortex damage often answer questions with wild guesses,based largely on out-of-date information.What are these guesses called?​

Accepted Answer

A) Implicit memories 
B) ​Procedural memories 
C) ​Consolidations 
D) ​Confabulations 
A) Implicit memories 
B) ​Procedural memories 
C) ​Consolidations 
D) ​Confabulations

Question 12

Short-term memory has which of the following characteristics?​

Accepted Answer

A) It can hold only a small amount of information. 
B) ​It lasts less than a second. 
C) ​It is synonymous with implicit memory. 
D) ​It is stored in the muscles, not the brain. 
A) It can hold only a small amount of information. 
B) ​It lasts less than a second. 
C) ​It is synonymous with implicit memory. 
D) ​It is stored in the muscles, not the brain.

Question 13

Which of these general points did we learn from studies of patient H.M.?​

Accepted Answer

A) All memory information funnels through a single brain area. 
B) ​It is possible to lose much of the brain and still function normally. 
C) ​Electrical stimulation of certain brain areas can recover a lost memory. 
D) ​Different types of memory depend on different brain areas. 
A) All memory information funnels through a single brain area. 
B) ​It is possible to lose much of the brain and still function normally. 
C) ​Electrical stimulation of certain brain areas can recover a lost memory. 
D) ​Different types of memory depend on different brain areas.

Question 14

"The magical number seven,plus or minus two" referred to the capacity of which of these?​

Accepted Answer

A) Procedural memory 
B) ​Short-term memory 
C) ​Episodic memory 
D) ​Semantic memory 
A) Procedural memory 
B) ​Short-term memory 
C) ​Episodic memory 
D) ​Semantic memory

Question 15

Study of patient H.M.led to research showing that the hippocampus is especially important for what?​

Accepted Answer

A) Short-term memories 
B) ​Implicit memories 
C) ​Procedural memories 
D) ​Episodic memories 
A) Short-term memories 
B) ​Implicit memories 
C) ​Procedural memories 
D) ​Episodic memories

Question 16

Which of these problems is common in Korsakoff's syndrome and in other people with damage to the prefrontal cortex?​

Accepted Answer

A) Using guesses to fill in the gaps in memory 
B) ​Remembering only the sad events in life and not the pleasant ones 
C) ​Excessive doubts about whether a decision was a good one 
D) ​Habitually repeating someone's question aloud before answering it 
A) Using guesses to fill in the gaps in memory 
B) ​Remembering only the sad events in life and not the pleasant ones 
C) ​Excessive doubts about whether a decision was a good one 
D) ​Habitually repeating someone's question aloud before answering it

Question 17

​What are the effects of spreading out your study or practice over many short sessions?

Accepted Answer

A) Better long-term retention of academic work, but worse for sports skills. 
B) ​Better long-term retention for sports skills, but worse for academic work. 
C) ​Better long-term retention for both academic work and sports skills. 
D) ​Worse long-term retention for both academic work and sports skills. 
A) Better long-term retention of academic work, but worse for sports skills. 
B) ​Better long-term retention for sports skills, but worse for academic work. 
C) ​Better long-term retention for both academic work and sports skills. 
D) ​Worse long-term retention for both academic work and sports skills.

Question 18

What causes the memory impairment known as Korsakoff's syndrome?​

Accepted Answer

A) Lack of vitamin B1 
B) ​Inability to metabolize phenylalanine 
C) ​Lack of the hormone insulin 
D) ​Intolerance for gluten 
A) Lack of vitamin B1 
B) ​Inability to metabolize phenylalanine 
C) ​Lack of the hormone insulin 
D) ​Intolerance for gluten

Question 19

When researchers asked adults about getting lost in a store as a child (an event that did not happen),how did they respond?​

Accepted Answer

A) Many of them said they remembered the event, and added more details. 
B) ​Most insisted that they had heard about it, but it happened to someone else. 
C) ​Most of them became distrustful of the researcher. 
D) ​All of them denied that the event had ever occurred. 
A) Many of them said they remembered the event, and added more details. 
B) ​Most insisted that they had heard about it, but it happened to someone else. 
C) ​Most of them became distrustful of the researcher. 
D) ​All of them denied that the event had ever occurred.

Question 20

​Whenever something goes wrong in foreign policy,people say the government should have known that it was making a mistake.This reaction is an example of what?

Accepted Answer

A) Hindsight bias 
B) ​Availability heuristic 
C) ​Representativeness heuristic 
D) ​Retroactive interference 
A) Hindsight bias 
B) ​Availability heuristic 
C) ​Representativeness heuristic 
D) ​Retroactive interference

Exam 7: Memory

What risk arises from the phenomenon of source amnesia?​

Which of these is an example of source amnesia?​

​What is unusual about implicit memories?

Which of the following improves memory?​

​When you read the word fall on a list,you think of it as a season of the year.Later when someone asks which word on the list means a way to get injured,you don't think of fall.Why?

​After brain damage,patient H.M.had severe memory problems,but was nearly normal in what type of learning?

After brain damage,patient H.M.showed great deficits in which of the following?​

​What is distinctive of long-term memory,compared to short-term memory?

Suppose your final exam is just one essay question: "Describe everything you learned in this course!" What type of memory test is that?​

Several experiments showed that short-term memory fades rapidly unless it is rehearsed.What aspect of the original experiment increased the probability of forgetting?

People with prefrontal cortex damage often answer questions with wild guesses,based largely on out-of-date information.What are these guesses called?​

Short-term memory has which of the following characteristics?​

Which of these general points did we learn from studies of patient H.M.?​

"The magical number seven,plus or minus two" referred to the capacity of which of these?​

Study of patient H.M.led to research showing that the hippocampus is especially important for what?​

Which of these problems is common in Korsakoff's syndrome and in other people with damage to the prefrontal cortex?​

​What are the effects of spreading out your study or practice over many short sessions?

What causes the memory impairment known as Korsakoff's syndrome?​

When researchers asked adults about getting lost in a store as a child (an event that did not happen),how did they respond?​

​Whenever something goes wrong in foreign policy,people say the government should have known that it was making a mistake.This reaction is an example of what?

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What risk arises from the phenomenon of source amnesia?

Which of these is an example of source amnesia?

What is unusual about implicit memories?

Which of the following improves memory?

When you read the word fall on a list,you think of it as a season of the year.Later when someone asks which word on the list means a way to get injured,you don't think of fall.Why?

After brain damage,patient H.M.had severe memory problems,but was nearly normal in what type of learning?

After brain damage,patient H.M.showed great deficits in which of the following?

What is distinctive of long-term memory,compared to short-term memory?

Suppose your final exam is just one essay question: "Describe everything you learned in this course!" What type of memory test is that?

People with prefrontal cortex damage often answer questions with wild guesses,based largely on out-of-date information.What are these guesses called?

Short-term memory has which of the following characteristics?

Which of these general points did we learn from studies of patient H.M.?

"The magical number seven,plus or minus two" referred to the capacity of which of these?

Study of patient H.M.led to research showing that the hippocampus is especially important for what?

Which of these problems is common in Korsakoff's syndrome and in other people with damage to the prefrontal cortex?

What are the effects of spreading out your study or practice over many short sessions?

What causes the memory impairment known as Korsakoff's syndrome?

When researchers asked adults about getting lost in a store as a child (an event that did not happen),how did they respond?

Whenever something goes wrong in foreign policy,people say the government should have known that it was making a mistake.This reaction is an example of what?