Question 1

Your memory of the moment you heard about the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in 2018 would be most appropriately termed a(n) __________ memory.

Accepted Answer

A)  episodic 
B)  autobiographical 
C)  flashbulb 
D)  repressed

Question 2

One problem with relying on eidetic imagery to study for tests is that __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  you remember too much material and the professor will think you are cheating 
B)  eidetic images fade in .25 seconds, as Sperling has shown 
C)  you may be able to recall the material but you don't necessarily understand it 
D)  it only helps you remember things from other cultures

Question 3

Our memories of general knowledge such as the meanings of words or the dates of famous historical events are stored in __________ memory.

Accepted Answer

A)  procedural 
B)  semantic 
C)  episodic 
D)  eidetic

Question 4

Memories that concern events that are highly significant and are vividly remembered are called __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  eidetic images 
B)  elaborative rehearsals 
C)  flashbulb memories 
D)  eyewitness images

Question 5

Memories that concern events that are highly significant and are vividly remembered are called __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  eidetic images 
B)  elaborative rehearsals 
C)  flashbulb memories 
D)  eyewitness images

Question 6

Sung-Mi is trying to memorize the names of the bones in the hand. She had gone through a list of them when her phone rang. After she gets off the phone, she is MOST likely to remember the first few bone names because of the __________ effect.

Accepted Answer

A)  elaboration 
B)  recency 
C)  primacy 
D)  maintenance

Question 7

Which technique is most widely used by therapists to help clients recover lost childhood memories?

Accepted Answer

A)  hypnosis 
B)  "truth" serum 
C)  Gestalt therapy 
D)  electroconvulsive therapy

Question 8

__________ is defined as an active system that receives information from the senses, puts it into a usable form, organizes and alters information as it stores it away, and then retrieves the information from storage.

Accepted Answer

A)  Classical conditioning 
B)  Operant conditioning 
C)  Learning 
D)  Memory

Question 9

According to primacy and recency effects, when reading the chapters of a textbook, you are most likely to forget the information __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  you read first 
B)  you read most recently 
C)  in the middle of the chapter 
D)  from the summary

Question 10

False positives occur when a person incorrectly "matches" a stimulus not in memory with one in memory that is just similar enough to lead the person to make a false identification. One major problem with eyewitness testimony is that __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  extinction of auditory memories causes the witness to forget what was said 
B)  witnesses are prone to habituate to the courtroom and forget what happened 
C)  false positives can cause eyewitness testimony to be quite inaccurate 
D)  there is usually some sort of unconscious motivation to provide inaccurate information

Question 11

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?

Accepted Answer

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 12

As memories get older, they are most likely to __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  get lost 
B)  become stronger, more accurate, and more vivid 
C)  be regarded as unreliable by the person using them 
D)  become changed or altered in some fashion

Question 13

What type of stimuli did Hermann Ebbinghaus use in his memory experiments?

Accepted Answer

A)  words 
B)  numbers 
C)  pictures 
D)  nonsense syllables

Question 14

The ability to remember where you were and what you were doing when the United States was attacked on September 11, 2001, is an example of __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  flashbulb memory 
B)  eyewitness testimony 
C)  encoding specificity hypothesis 
D)  false-memory syndrome

Question 15

Raven has just finished learning a list of nonsense words given to her by her psychology instructor as part of a class activity. She had 100 percent recall at the end of class. According to Ebbinghaus's curve of forgetting, how quickly will Raven likely forget about 40 percent of the information she has just learned?

Accepted Answer

A)  within the first 20 minutes after leaving the class 
B)  within the first day after leaving the class 
C)  nearly a week after the class 
D)  nearly a month after the class

Question 16

Which of the following is most likely to be a flashbulb memory for most people?

Accepted Answer

A)  a photograph of a dead soldier 
B)  a photograph of a bird 
C)  a photograph of the earth from space 
D)  a random photograph

Question 17

Flashbulb memories __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  are not subject to periodic revision 
B)  usually concern events that are emotionally charged 
C)  are almost always highly accurate 
D)  usually concern events from early childhood

Question 18

Which of the following statements is TRUE of retrieval cues?

Accepted Answer

A)  They are important in helping us remember items stored in long-term memory. 
B)  They are aids in rote rehearsal in short-term memory. 
C)  They can be helpful in both long- and short-term memory. 
D)  They have recently been shown to have little effect on the accessibility of information.

Question 19

The BEST place to take your biology exam to ensure good retrieval of biology concepts is in __________.

Accepted Answer

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

Question 20

Evidence suggests that short-term memories are stored in the prefrontal and temporal lobes of the cortex.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 6: Memory

Your memory of the moment you heard about the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in 2018 would be most appropriately termed a(n) __________ memory.

One problem with relying on eidetic imagery to study for tests is that __________.

Our memories of general knowledge such as the meanings of words or the dates of famous historical events are stored in __________ memory.

Memories that concern events that are highly significant and are vividly remembered are called __________.

Memories that concern events that are highly significant and are vividly remembered are called __________.

Sung-Mi is trying to memorize the names of the bones in the hand. She had gone through a list of them when her phone rang. After she gets off the phone, she is MOST likely to remember the first few bone names because of the __________ effect.

Which technique is most widely used by therapists to help clients recover lost childhood memories?

__________ is defined as an active system that receives information from the senses, puts it into a usable form, organizes and alters information as it stores it away, and then retrieves the information from storage.

According to primacy and recency effects, when reading the chapters of a textbook, you are most likely to forget the information __________.

False positives occur when a person incorrectly "matches" a stimulus not in memory with one in memory that is just similar enough to lead the person to make a false identification. One major problem with eyewitness testimony is that __________.

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?

As memories get older, they are most likely to __________.

What type of stimuli did Hermann Ebbinghaus use in his memory experiments?

The ability to remember where you were and what you were doing when the United States was attacked on September 11, 2001, is an example of __________.

Which of the following is most likely to be a flashbulb memory for most people?

Flashbulb memories __________.

Which of the following statements is TRUE of retrieval cues?

The BEST place to take your biology exam to ensure good retrieval of biology concepts is in __________.

Evidence suggests that short-term memories are stored in the prefrontal and temporal lobes of the cortex.