Question 1

Don dove into a swimming pool and hit his head in the side. He suffered a concussion and damaged his hippocampus. Now he cannot remember anything that happened after he woke up. Don is suffering from

Accepted Answer

A)  proactive interference 
B)  retroactive interference 
C)  anterograde amnesia 
D)  retrograde amnesia 
E)  memory decay

Question 2

Which of the following statements regarding Alzheimer's disease is true?

Accepted Answer

A)  It only causes anterograde amnesia. 
B)  It doesn't cause anterograde or retrograde amnesia. 
C)  It may cause both anterograde and retrograde amnesia. 
D)  It only causes retrograde amnesia.

Question 3

The associative network model asserts that a node in a memory network consists of an idea, a word, or a concept, while the model that argues that a node is physical in nature and does not contain individual units of information is the model.

Accepted Answer

A)  levels of processing 
B)  neural network 
C)  working memory 
D)  dual coding

Question 4

You note that a patient of yours has an abnormal amount of plaques and tangles in his brain. What would you expect?

Accepted Answer

A)  retrograde amnesia 
B)  Alzheimer's disease 
C)  repressed memory 
D)  anterograde amnesia 
E)  a lack of memory consolidation in the temporal lobe

Question 5

Approximately, 5 to 9 meaningful pieces of information is the capacity of ________ memory.

Accepted Answer

A)  episodic 
B)  sensory 
C)  short-term 
D)  procedural

Question 6

You have forgotten about some incident that occurred several years ago. It was very troubling to you. Rather than having amnesia, your psychoanalyst suggests that this is really a case of

Accepted Answer

A)  the action of false retrieval cues 
B)  dementia 
C)  repression 
D)  interference 
E)  memory trace decay

Question 7

Research by Gail Goodman and her colleagues (1994) examining the effect of
misleading questions on children's memories for a single painful hospital procedure revealed that the memories of both younger and older children were not influenced by these questions.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Which of the following was mentioned as a suggestion for improving memory?

Accepted Answer

A)  Practicing extensively as this is more effective than distributed practice. 
B)  Using maintenance rehearsal to process information deeply. 
C)  Maximizing interference to ensure mastery. 
D)  Linking new information to examples and concepts already in memory.

Question 9

A friend asks you to make a phone call for them and tells you the phone number to call. As you walk to the telephone booth, you silently repeat the number to yourself to remember it. This example best demonstrates the process of:

Accepted Answer

A)  maintenance rehearsal. 
B)  automatic processing. 
C)  elaborative rehearsal. 
D)  sensory memory.

Question 10

According to the three-component model of memory, the component with the shortest storage time is

Accepted Answer

A)  the recency filter. 
B)  short-term memory. 
C)  the sensory register. 
D)  long-term memory. 
E)  the primacy filter.

Question 11

Intentional processing that requires conscious attention is best defined as:

Accepted Answer

A)  Automatic processing 
B)  Effortful processing 
C)  Implicit memory 
D)  Sensory processing

Question 12

George Sperling briefly presented people with arrays of 12 letters (3 rows of 4 letters each) and asked them to immediately recall what they had seen. Under these conditions, people typically recalled:

Accepted Answer

A)  3 to 5 letters. 
B)  1 to 2 letters. 
C)  11 to 12 letters. 
D)  8 to 10 letters.

Question 13

This

Accepted Answer

A)  recognition test. 
B)  priming test. 
C)  cued recall test. 
D)  recall test.

Question 14

The results of Hermann Ebbinghaus's research on forgetting revealed that forgetting tended to occur rapidly at first and then slowed down noticeably thereafter.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

A memory researcher claims that a concept such as "dog" is triggered by the simultaneous firing of nodes #8, #47, and #123 in a network, but if node #8 is simultaneously triggered with nodes #9 and #301, an entirely different concept appears in the mind. The views of this researcher are most consistent with the theory of
Memory.

Accepted Answer

A)  dual coding 
B)  state-dependent 
C)  associative network 
D)  neural network

Question 16

Let's say that you have just heard a long list of words and are then asked to recall them. If I wanted to prevent a recency effect, I could give you a task that interfered with

Accepted Answer

A)  short-term memory. 
B)  sensory memory. 
C)  visual codes 
D)  iconic memory. 
E)  long-term memory.

Question 17

Retroactive interference occurs when newly acquired information interferes with our ability to recall information that was learned at an earlier time.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

Which of the following was mentioned as one of the factors that could possibly account for the substantial and rapid forgetting that occurred to Hermann Ebbinghaus?

Accepted Answer

A)  His use of acronyms was not well suited to the memory tasks he set for himself. 
B)  He learned so many lists that it must have been difficult to distinguish between them. 
C)  He failed to use maintenance rehearsal. 
D)  The material he learned required excessive deep processing.

Question 19

Sometimes memory is fabricated - we remember things that never actually occurred. Schacter studied people who claimed that they were abducted by aliens and suggests that these false memories are actually generated by

Accepted Answer

A)  infantile amnesia. 
B)  repression. 
C)  faulty source monitoring. 
D)  decreased activity in the frontal cortex. 
E)  overactive schemas.

Question 20

If you were to perform a mental computation such as adding the numbers 26 and 41 in your head, it is assumed that you would be doing this in your:

Accepted Answer

A)  episodic memory. 
B)  short-term memory. 
C)  long-term memory. 
D)  sensory memory.

Exam 8: Memory

Don dove into a swimming pool and hit his head in the side. He suffered a concussion and damaged his hippocampus. Now he cannot remember anything that happened after he woke up. Don is suffering from

Which of the following statements regarding Alzheimer's disease is true?

The associative network model asserts that a node in a memory network consists of an idea, a word, or a concept, while the model that argues that a node is physical in nature and does not contain individual units of information is the model.

You note that a patient of yours has an abnormal amount of plaques and tangles in his brain. What would you expect?

Approximately, 5 to 9 meaningful pieces of information is the capacity of ________ memory.

You have forgotten about some incident that occurred several years ago. It was very troubling to you. Rather than having amnesia, your psychoanalyst suggests that this is really a case of

Research by Gail Goodman and her colleagues (1994) examining the effect of misleading questions on children's memories for a single painful hospital procedure revealed that the memories of both younger and older children were not influenced by these questions.

Which of the following was mentioned as a suggestion for improving memory?

A friend asks you to make a phone call for them and tells you the phone number to call. As you walk to the telephone booth, you silently repeat the number to yourself to remember it. This example best demonstrates the process of:

According to the three-component model of memory, the component with the shortest storage time is

Intentional processing that requires conscious attention is best defined as:

George Sperling briefly presented people with arrays of 12 letters (3 rows of 4 letters each) and asked them to immediately recall what they had seen. Under these conditions, people typically recalled:

This

The results of Hermann Ebbinghaus's research on forgetting revealed that forgetting tended to occur rapidly at first and then slowed down noticeably thereafter.

Let's say that you have just heard a long list of words and are then asked to recall them. If I wanted to prevent a recency effect, I could give you a task that interfered with

Retroactive interference occurs when newly acquired information interferes with our ability to recall information that was learned at an earlier time.

Which of the following was mentioned as one of the factors that could possibly account for the substantial and rapid forgetting that occurred to Hermann Ebbinghaus?

Sometimes memory is fabricated - we remember things that never actually occurred. Schacter studied people who claimed that they were abducted by aliens and suggests that these false memories are actually generated by

If you were to perform a mental computation such as adding the numbers 26 and 41 in your head, it is assumed that you would be doing this in your: