Deck 1: The Science of Psychology

Question 1

Yesterday, Colleen went to an interesting lecture. She didn't take notes, because she isn't going to be tested on the lecture. Though she made no effort to memorize any of the information the speaker presented, she is able to repeat a great deal of it to a friend. How did the information get into her long-term memory?

A) chunking
B) elaborative rehearsal
C) semantic encoding
D) automatic processing

Answer 1

automatic processing

Question 2

Yesterday, Colleen went to an interesting lecture on relationship problems. She didn't take notes, because she isn't going to be tested on the lecture. Though she made no effort to memorize any of the information the speaker presented, she is able to repeat a great deal of it to a friend. In particular, she is able to remember the parts that she felt applied to her own past relationships. Which concept explains why?

A) levels of processing
B) the Tolman effect
C) semantic encoding
D) elaborative rehearsal

Answer 2

levels of processing

Question 3

When Beatrice was ten, she tripped and fell right into the middle of her sister's birthday cake. She was embarrassed and felt terrible. When Beatrice's sister brings the story up one evening at the dinner table, Beatrice swears she has no memory of the event. Psychodynamic therapists would suggest that Beatrice has __________ the memory.

A) decayed
B) retrospected
C) retrograded
D) repressed

Answer 3

retrograded

Question 4

Over the last few years, Sakura's grandmother has become forgetful, confused, and disoriented. Sakura goes with Grandmother to have cognitive testing done, and afterward the doctor says that Grandmother's procedural, semantic, episodic, and prospective memories are all affected. Grandmother probably

A) has Alzheimer's disease.
B) is experiencing normal decay of the memory trace.
C) is dealing with interference, since she has learned so many things over the years.
D) is repressing things she doesn't like to think about.

Question 5

Doug is listening to a new CD. The artist used sampling (taking a recording from one source and incorporating it into a new recording) on one track. As soon as he hears it, Doug knows the sample is from a movie, but he can't remember which one. This is called

A) consolidation.
B) the Loftus effect.
C) homeostasis.
D) source confusion.