Exam 7: B: Memory

Cory is a new teacher and has had very little experience writing multiple choice questions.So,on a question asking for the "father of psychology," he listed Wilhelm Wundt and three women psychologists as the possible responses.This type of question would most likely produce

In an effort to recover repressed memories,hypnosis,guided visualizations,suggestion,age regression,and administering the drug Amytal have been used.These and similar techniques can

In an experiment,it takes you one hour to memorize all the terms on a list.Two years later you relearn them in 45 minutes.The time difference of 15 minutes,or 25 percent (15 divided by 60 times 100),is called the

You and your family are leaving on a week-long vacation.As you leave your hometown behind,you begin to feel excited as you anticipate the adventures to come and start remembering other exciting vacations that you have taken over the years with your family.This suggests that your memory is

College students who memorized 20 lists of words (one list each day)recalled only 15 percent of the last list.Students who learned only one list recalled 80 percent of it.This is best explained by which explanation of forgetting?

Sequential lineups in which one photo at a time is shown to the witness can reduce the occurrence of

If the stimuli associated with the memory are missing when the time comes to retrieve the information,which of the following often occurs?

Any stimulus associated with a particular memory and which usually enhances your ability to access a memory is called a(n)

José studies,stays awake for eight hours,then sleeps for eight hours.Santos studies,then sleeps eight hours,and is then awake for eight hours.Santos will remember more than José because Santos experienced more of which of the following before the interference began?

On the reading comprehension test,a student reads a sentence and then the examiner turns the page and asks the student to select which picture out of four best illustrates what he or she read.The student's memory for what was read is being tested using

Regarding electroconvulsive shock (ECS)and consolidation,which of the following statements is FALSE?

If you witnessed a crime and were asked to pick out the person who committed this crime from a lineup,your memory was being tested using

Many people remember happy,positive events better than disappointments and irritations.This difference would best be explained by

Which type of forgetting occurs when memory traces weaken because these memories have not been periodically utilized or retrieved?

In the classic experiment in which two groups of students studied lists of words with one group staying awake before the testing and the other group sleeping,the students who slept after studying the list remembered more because which of the following was held to a minimum?

In relearning,the amount remembered is measured by the

People who are extremely sensitive to emotional events tend to protect themselves from threatening thoughts through

You are watching a popular TV game show; and one of the contestants is about to solve the puzzle.You can tell by the look on his face and by the tone of his voice that he will give the right answer.You were observing the contestant's

Instances have occurred in which witnesses described a criminal as black,tall,or young; and then the lineup was held in which a suspect was the only African American among whites,the only tall suspect,or the only young person.Having situations like this would produce

Twenty years after graduating,a subject is able to correctly "pick out" photographs of students she attended high school with from a larger group of strangers.To do so she has used