Question 1

Theodore has suffered from Korsakoff's amnesia for the last decade. Theodore is LEAST likely to do which of the following actions?

Accepted Answer

A)  accurately recall events from early childhood 
B)  hold a coherent conversation lasting many minutes 
C)  recall events that occurred last month 
D)  recognize people he met 18 years ago

Question 2

Herbert says, "I can't figure out where I've seen that person before, but I know that I have seen her before!" Herbert

Accepted Answer

A)  has an episodic memory for the face but no generic memory for the face. 
B)  has a sense of familiarity but no source memory. 
C)  would perform well on a recall test but not on a recognition test. 
D)  seems to have formed interim associations when he last encountered the face.

Question 3

Current evidence indicates that patients suffering from Korsakoff's amnesia

Accepted Answer

A)  show greater disruption in implicit memory than in explicit memory. 
B)  suffer from disruption in both implicit and explicit memory. 
C)  show intact implicit memory with perceptual cues but disrupted implicit memory with conceptual cues. 
D)  have preserved implicit memory despite severe disruption in explicit memory.

Question 4

Participants are asked to read a series of unrelated words out loud. According to the implicit memory hypothesis described in the text, this experience will help the participants

Accepted Answer

A)  if they later try to perceive words synonymous with the words contained on the list. 
B)  the next time they try to perceive these same words. 
C)  the next time they try to remember the concepts associated with the words on the list. 
D)  if they try to recall a series of words related to the words on the list.

Question 5

If you perceive a stimulus and then later perceive the same stimulus again, you are likely to perceive the stimulus more quickly and more easily the second time. This benefit can be described as a(n)

Accepted Answer

A)  context-dependent memory. 
B)  explicit memory. 
C)  increase in processing fluency. 
D)  recognition memory.

Question 6

Abigail saw the stimulus "all________" and was asked to think of a word that began with these letters. This task is called

Accepted Answer

A)  a lexical decision. 
B)  word-stem completion. 
C)  semantic priming. 
D)  explicit memory.

Question 7

Theories of spreading activation assume that activating one node will lead to

Accepted Answer

A)  "downstream" nodes also being activated. 
B)  all connected nodes being activated. 
C)  a subset of connected nodes being activated. 
D)  unconnected nodes being suppressed.

Question 8

Which of the following is most like an example of the influence of implicit memory?

Accepted Answer

A)  Alexander was taking a true-false test. He didn't know the answer to Question 12, so he skipped it. 
B)  Bill could not remember the answer for the question, but he did his best to reconstruct what the answer might be. 
C)  Not only did Dave remember the answer, he also remembered where the answer appeared on the textbook page. 
D)  Marcus was taking a multiple-choice test. He was having a hard time with Question 17, but Option D for that question seemed familiar, so he decided that D must be the correct answer.

Question 9

Establishing a memory connection

Accepted Answer

A)  allows you to access Memory X from Memory Y if they are connected but will not help you access Memory Z if it is not connected to Memory X or Y. 
B)  primes all memory connections so that all memories are quicker to retrieve. 
C)  can occur only for emotional memories. 
D)  is better for emotional memories than for other types of memories.

Question 10

If a memory is like a city you want to travel to and the retrieval paths you use to find the memory are like highways that lead to that city, which is the best strategy for memorizing?

Accepted Answer

A)  build one really big highway, so you are more likely to find the answer later 
B)  build many highways that travel in many directions, so you have multiple ways to remember it later 
C)  build toll roads (premium highways) so you can get to the memories as fast as possible with little traffic 
D)  invest very little in building highways because you never know which highway will be the best road in the future

Exam 7: Interconnections Between Acquisition and Retrieval