Deck 5: Section 3:memory

Question 1

After learning the phone number for Five Star Pizza, Bob cannot remember the phone number he learned last week for the Donut Connection. After living in Los Angeles for three years, Jim is unable to remember his way around his hometown in which he had lived the previous 10 years prior to moving to Los Angeles. Bob is experiencing the effects of _____ interference, and Jim is experiencing the effects of _____.

A) proactive; proactive
B) proactive; retroactive
C) retroactive; proactive
D) retroactive; retroactive

Answer 1

retroactive; retroactive

Question 2

Which type of memory holds sensory input until we can attend to and recognize it?

A) short-term memory
B) sensory memory
C) semantic memory
D) episodic memory

Answer 2

sensory memory

Question 3

Per levels-of-processing theory, which question about the word "depressed" would BEST prepare you to correctly remember tomorrow that you had seen the word in this practice test today?

A) How well does the word describe you?
B) Does the word consist of ten letters?
C) Is the word typed in capital letters?
D) Does the word rhyme with obsessed?

Answer 3

How well does the word describe you?

Question 4

Our short-term memory capacity is _____ $\pm$ 2 chunks.

A) 3
B) 5
C) 7
D) 9

Question 5

The results for the experiment in which word lists were studied on land or underwater and then recalled either on land or underwater provide evidence for _____.

A) source misattribution
B) encoding specificity
C) proactive interference
D) retroactive interference

Question 6

Piaget's false memory of a kidnapping attempt when he was a child was the result of _____.

A) infantile amnesia
B) source misattribution
C) encoding failure
D) storage decay

Question 7

In the Loftus and Palmer experiment, participants were shown a film of a traffic accident and then later tested for their memory of it. The finding that memory differed based on the specific words used in the test questions illustrated _____.

A) state-dependent memory
B) source misattribution
C) the self-reference effect
D) the misinformation effect

Question 8

Which theory of forgetting argues that the forgotten information was in long-term memory but is no longer available?

A) encoding failure theory
B) storage decay theory
C) interference theory
D) cue-dependent theory

Question 9

Which is NOT a mnemonic aid?

A) method of loci
B) peg-word system
C) temporal integration procedure
D) first-letter technique

Question 10

The primacy and recency effects in free recall demonstrate that we have the greatest difficulty recalling the words _____ of a list.

A) at the beginning
B) at the end
C) in the middle
D) at the beginning and end

Question 11

Which type of memory has the shortest duration?

A) sensory memory
B) short-term memory
C) semantic memory
D) episodic memory

Question 12

An essay test measures _____, and a multiple-choice test measures _____.

A) recall; recall
B) recall; recognition
C) recognition; recall
D) recognition; recognition

Question 13

The forgetting curve for long-term memory in Ebbinghaus's relearning studies with nonsense syllables indicates that _____.

A) the greatest amount of forgetting occurs rather quickly and then it levels off
B) little forgetting occurs very quickly and the greatest amount occurs later after a lengthy period of memory storage
C) forgetting occurs at a uniform rate
D) little forgetting ever occurs

Question 14

Which of the following leads to the best long-term memory?

A) maintenance rehearsal
B) elaborative rehearsal
C) physical processing
D) acoustic processing

Question 15

Procedural memories are _____ memories and thus are probably processed in the _____.

A) explicit; hippocampus
B) explicit; cerebellum
C) implicit; hippocampus
D) implicit; cerebellum