Deck 5: Section 2: Memory: Living With Yesterday

Question 1

Moishe can remember only the first two items and the last two items on the grocery list that his wife just read to him over the phone.The other five items in between are gone.His memory of things at the end of the list demonstrates the ____________.

A)encoding specificity effect
B)primacy effect
C)recency effect
D)TOT effect

Answer 1

primacy effect

Question 2

Which of the following distinguishes sensory memory (SM)from short-term memory (STM)?

A)STM holds only a small amount of separate pieces of information
B)STM holds a large amount of separate pieces of information
C)SM holds a large amount of separate pieces of information
D)STM holds a small amount of uniform information

Answer 2

SM holds a large amount of separate pieces of information

Question 3

People tend to forget negative affect associated with autobiographical memories more quickly than they forget positive affect.What enhances this effect?

A)Keeping the memory private
B)Left frontal lobe activity
C)The age of the person
D)Frequently discussing the memories with a variety of people

Answer 3

Frequently discussing the memories with a variety of people

Question 4

Retrograde amnesia is to anterograde amnesia as ________.

A)mild is to severe
B)severe is to mild
C)remembering old is to learning new
D)remembering new is to learning old

Question 5

Distributed practice in studying means to ________.

A)study in short sessions spread out over time
B)study in extended sessions
C)send out study sessions to others
D)study all of the material at one time

Question 6

Memories for general facts and personal information are called _________.

A)episodic memory
B)procedural memories
C)declarative memories
D)factual memory

Question 7

Ebbinghaus found that information is forgotten ____________.

A)more rapidly as time goes by
B)gradually at first, then with increasing speed
C)quickly at first, then tapers off gradually
D)most quickly one day after learning

Question 8

Loni is asked to memorize the letters I K T E A L N in no particular order.She memorizes them by reorganizing them into the words INK and LATE.This tactic is called ______.

A)cueing
B)shadowing
C)rote rehearsal
D)chunking

Question 9

The famous case of H.M.pertains to an individual who had severe memory loss once his hippocampus was removed.However, he still had a form of ________.

A)semantic memory
B)implicit memory
C)explicit memory
D)declarative memory

Question 10

The first step in the memory process is _____________ information in a form that the memory system can use.

A)encoding
B)storing
C)retrieving
D)evaluating