Deck 5: Section 1: Memory: Living With Yesterday

Question 1

General knowledge, language, and concepts are seen as parts of ___________.

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

Answer 1

semantic memory

Question 2

Why does distributed practice result in improved memory over massed practice?

A)You unconsciously memorize the material.
B)Each time you study you provide more associations.
C)Distributed practice activates the frontal lobe.
D)Massed practice leads to consolidation.

Answer 2

Each time you study you provide more associations.

Question 3

Suppose Tamika looks up a number in the telephone book.After getting a busy signal, a minute or so later she tries to call again - but has already forgotten the number! This example illustrates the limited duration of________ memory.

A)sensory
B)short-term
C)echoic
D)implicit

Answer 3

short-term

Question 4

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 start of the list demonstrates the

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

Question 5

When newer information interferes with the retrieval of older information, this is called ______________.

A)cue-dependent forgetting
B)proactive interference
C)decay
D)retroactive interference

Question 6

Jamal is trying to buy something over the phone.He asks his partner to read him his credit card number.However, when he tries to repeat it to the sales clerk on the other end of the line, he can't remember all the numbers.Jamal is coming up against ______.

A)the decay of numerical memory
B)the extinction of auditory traces
C)George Miller's magic number 7, plus or minus 2
D)the limits of procedural memory

Question 7

When people hear a sound, their ears turn the vibrations in the air into neural messages from the auditory nerve, which makes it possible for the brain to interpret the sound.This process is called ________________.

A)encoding
B)storage
C)retrieval
D)evaluation

Question 8

Proactive interference as used in the study of memory refers to when _____________.

A)older information already in memory interferes with the retrieval of newer information
B)newer information interferes with the retrieval of older information
C)information is not attended to and fails to be encoded
D)information that is not accessed decays from the storage system over time

Question 9

What is autobiographical memory?

A)memory for events in your life
B)memory for events in books
C)semantic personal memories
D)implicit memories

Question 10

Automatic processing, compared to controlled processing, involves less ________.

A)attention
B)memory space
C)neurotransmitters
D)procedural skills