Deck 6: Extension: Memory

Question 1

Patients who are treated with electroconvulsive shock therapy often suffer memory losses for events that occurred up to three hours before the treatment. These memory problems are most likely due to disruption of the ________.

A) hippocampus
B) temporal lobe
C) parietal lobe
D) cerebellum

Answer 1

hippocampus

Question 2

In the famous case of H. M., after having part of his brain removed, he could no longer ________.

A) form new explicit memories
B) pay attention to specific stimuli
C) make sense of old memories
D) retrieve old memories

Answer 2

form new explicit memories

Question 3

The portion of long-term memory that stores specific information of personally experienced events is called ________ memory.

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

Answer 3

episodic

Question 4

The most important determinant of interference is ________.

A) decay
B) rehearsal time
C) similarity
D) complexity

Question 5

The finding that when asked to recall a list of unrelated items memory is better for the items at the beginning and at the end of the list is known as the ________.

A) implicit memory effect
B) sequestering effect
C) serial position effect
D) phi phenomenon

Question 6

Students in a psychology experiment were exposed to three notes of music for a very short period of time and then asked to recall them. If the instructions to recall the notes came immediately, the students usually succeeded. If the instructions came more than three seconds after the notes were played, the students were much less successful. The most plausible explanation for this phenomenon is that in the latter case the echo ________.

A) faded after being stored in short-term memory
B) was already stored in long-term memory
C) never made it to the sensory registers
D) faded before being stored in short-term memory

Question 7

The first truly scientific memory experiments were conducted by ________, who used himself as a subject.

A) Phillipe Charcot
B) Hermann Ebbinghaus
C) Hermann Helmholtz
D) Sigmund Freud

Question 8

Chunking is ________.

A) most useful for storing information in long-term memory
B) most useful for storing information in short-term memory
C) equally useful for storing information in the sensory registers, short-term memory, and long-term memory
D) most useful for storing information in the sensory registers

Question 9

Which of the following people is most likely to recall events from early in life?

A) a 56-year-old female
B) a 24-year-old female
C) a 40-year-old male
D) an 18-year-old male

Question 10

The fact that people recognize that M and M are the same letter faster than they recognize that M and m are the same letter is evidence that ________.

A) most verbal material in short-term memory is stored phonologically
B) rote rehearsal helps to store information in short-term memory
C) some verbal material in short-term memory is stored in visual form
D) only through elaborative rehearsal can material be committed to long-term memory