Deck 6: A: Memory

Question 1

_____________ is retention of memory for some period of time.

A)Encoding
B)Storage
C)Retrieval
D)Evaluation

Answer 1

Storage

Question 2

Repeating items over and over in order to aid memory is known as ______ rehearsal.

A)repetitive
B)imagery
C)elaborative
D)maintenance

Answer 2

maintenance

Question 3

Short-term memories appear to be localized in the _________________.

A)occipital lobe
B)cingulate gyrus
C)amygdala
D)prefrontal lobes

Answer 3

prefrontal lobes

Question 4

A witness on the stand swears that he saw someone commit a crime.Must you believe that the testimony is valid when a witness testifies so forcefully?

A)Yes,because seeing is believing.
B)No,because eyewitnesses are not usually honest.
C)Yes,because eyewitnesses are very confident about their testimony.
D)No,because there is a great possibility of a "false positive" identification.

Question 5

According to Elizabeth Bowman,____________.

A)Hypnosis makes production of false memories easier
B)Hypnosis increases confidence in memories,even fake ones
C)Therapists have produced false memories through hypnosis
D)All of these statements are true.

Question 6

People with dementia typically have a memory problem known as ____________.

A)amygdaloid amnesia
B)inferograde amnesia
C)retrograde amnesia
D)anterograde amnesia

Question 7

The Internet,with its series of links from one site to many others,is a good analogy for the organization of ______________.

A)short-term memory
B)episodic memory
C)long-term memory
D)procedural memory

Question 8

For which famous memory researcher is memory a problem-solving activity in which the problem is to give a coherent account of some past event,and the memory is the solution to that problem?

A)Bartlett
B)Meyer
C)Ebbinghaus
D)Skinner

Question 9

The best place to take your biology exam to ensure good retrieval of biology concepts is in _____________.

A)the biology classroom
B)an auditorium to prevent cheating
C)the English classroom
D)the special testing room used for all exams

Question 10

Which of the following might be the most appropriate analogy for eidetic imagery?

A)a table
B)a modem
C)a rainbow
D)a photograph