Question 1

A person is driving and comes to an intersection where they see a deer.After driving past the deer,a policeman pulls them over.After the standard questions,the policeman asks them if they had seen an elk on the road.The person says 'no' and goes upon their way.One week later,the same person is pulled over by another policeman.The second policeman asks the person if they had seen an elk the previous week.Forty percentage of the time,what will the person's response be?

Accepted Answer

A) They had seen a deer. 
B) They had seen a cow. 
C) They had seen an elk. 
D) They had not seen anything.

Question 2

According to Underwood,treatments that increase the distinctiveness of memories will reduce the level of interference.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Define and provide an example of proactive and retroactive interference.

Accepted Answer

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Question 4

A person goes to a therapist complaining of depression.During the course of the conversation,the therapist begins to ask about the person's childhood.Initially,the person says there were no problems.However,with continued leading questioning by the therapist,the person comes to believe that they were sexually abused by someone in their family.However,no sexual abuse ever occurred.This is an example of ______.

Accepted Answer

A) false memory syndrome 
B) repressed memory 
C) depression-induced memory 
D) none of these are correct

Question 5

When a witness is interviewed by a person from the press and the interviewer provides additional information,what will happen with the witnesses recall?

Accepted Answer

A) They will ignore what the reporter said. 
B) They will remember what the reporter said but it will not have an impact on their recall. 
C) The information will be incorporated into the witnesses recall. 
D) The information will be recalled and it will have the opposite effect on what the witness reports.

Question 6

Affective memory attributes are related to the emotional character of the event.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

According to Loftus,______.

Accepted Answer

A) trial witnesses try to help out either the prosecution or defense 
B) trial witnesses recall what they believe they saw or heard 
C) trial witnesses accurately recall the information,but become confused when they are describing the information 
D) trial witnesses do not recall any information

Question 8

One model of forgetting contends ______.

Accepted Answer

A) memorization is not an accurate way to understand forgetting 
B) that engrams take several days before they become developed 
C) engrams do not become fully developed 
D) interference among memories causes forgetting

Question 9

The greater the distress ______.

Accepted Answer

A) the less susceptible participants are to the creation of false memories by misinformation 
B) the more information that is forgotten 
C) the more susceptible participants are to the creation of false memories by misinformation 
D) the more susceptible participants are to forgetting what they have observed

Question 10

Examples of motivated forgetting include ______.

Accepted Answer

A) forgetting to butter a slice of bread before eating it 
B) forgetting identity threat promotions that they receive through social media 
C) cheating and then feeling guilty about it 
D) all of these are correct

Question 11

In two experiments discussed in your text,participants smoked marijuana and then were given a memory task.Which type of memory task did the marijuana participants performed the best on?

Accepted Answer

A) a free recall task 
B) a cued recall task 
C) an interference task 
D) students did not perform well on any of the tasks

Question 12

Choose the most accurate answer.A student goes to a party and becomes intoxicated.The following day their friends ask them if they had an enjoyable time.However,the student does not remember if they did.This is an example of ______.

Accepted Answer

A) a cue recall attribute 
B) an effective attribute 
C) a context attribute 
D) state-dependent learning

Question 13

In the study where participants read the folktale 'The War of the Ghosts,' participants ______.

Accepted Answer

A) deleted some aspects of the story 
B) overemphasized some aspects of the story 
C) added new material to the story 
D) all of these answers are correct

Question 14

You have been attending your class in one particular classroom.However when you take the final,you find that the original room is under repair and that you need to go to a different classroom that has the same characteristics.According to your text,how would you expect your performance to be in the second room?

Accepted Answer

A) You will perform worse than normal. 
B) You will perform better than normal. 
C) You will perform about the same as you normally do. 
D) You will give up and not take the test at all.

Question 15

The person wants to remember a speech they are about to give.They break the speech into several key thoughts and associate these thoughts with rooms as they mentally walk through their house.This is an example of the ______.

Accepted Answer

A) peg word method 
B) method of loci 
C) acronym method 
D) none of these are correct

Question 16

A rat is placed in a distinctive environment and required to actively respond and avoid shock in a shuttle box.Forty-eight hours later,the rat is placed in a shuttle box in the original training room or an identical shuttle box located in a different room that had a different size,light,odor,and noise level.What would you expect to happen to the rat's performance?

Accepted Answer

A) The rat will respond faster in the new room than the original room. 
B) The rat will respond slower in the new room than the original room. 
C) The rat will respond at the same rate in either the new room or the old room. 
D) The rat will stop responding altogether.

Question 17

The person is associating words with the phrases,'One is bun,two is a shoe,three is a tree,etc.' This is an example of the ______.

Accepted Answer

A) peg word method 
B) method of loci 
C) acronym method 
D) Carmile method

Question 18

Loftus and Coan conducted a study where they had family members remind the subject of an incident where the subject was lost in a shopping mall.Their results indicated ______.

Accepted Answer

A) that it was difficult to create false memory 
B) creating a false memory required multiple reminders of the incident 
C) that creating the false memory only worked on younger children 
D) that it was easy to create a false memory

Question 19

The sources of misinformation determine a person's susceptibility to misinformation.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

On a visit to your old high school,lots of memories return.This is due to the ______ attribute of memory.

Accepted Answer

A) context 
B) acoustic 
C) situational 
D) effective

Exam 13: Memory Retrieval and Forgetting

According to Underwood,treatments that increase the distinctiveness of memories will reduce the level of interference.

Define and provide an example of proactive and retroactive interference.

When a witness is interviewed by a person from the press and the interviewer provides additional information,what will happen with the witnesses recall?

Affective memory attributes are related to the emotional character of the event.

According to Loftus,______.

One model of forgetting contends ______.

The greater the distress ______.

Examples of motivated forgetting include ______.

In two experiments discussed in your text,participants smoked marijuana and then were given a memory task.Which type of memory task did the marijuana participants performed the best on?

Choose the most accurate answer.A student goes to a party and becomes intoxicated.The following day their friends ask them if they had an enjoyable time.However,the student does not remember if they did.This is an example of ______.

In the study where participants read the folktale 'The War of the Ghosts,' participants ______.

The person wants to remember a speech they are about to give.They break the speech into several key thoughts and associate these thoughts with rooms as they mentally walk through their house.This is an example of the ______.

The person is associating words with the phrases,'One is bun,two is a shoe,three is a tree,etc.' This is an example of the ______.

Loftus and Coan conducted a study where they had family members remind the subject of an incident where the subject was lost in a shopping mall.Their results indicated ______.

The sources of misinformation determine a person's susceptibility to misinformation.

On a visit to your old high school,lots of memories return.This is due to the ______ attribute of memory.