Question 1

The ability to correctly identify previously learned information is known as __________ memory.

Accepted Answer

A) recall 
B) recognition 
C) relearning 
D) redintegration

Question 2

Conscious is to suppression as unconscious is to

Accepted Answer

A) redintegration. 
B) repression. 
C) regression. 
D) relearning.

Question 3

Greg is on the trivia team for his fraternity. When the final deciding question was asked during a competition, Greg was sure he knew the answer since he had answered a similar question during practice, but he just couldn't retrieve the information in time to "buzz in." The other team did "buzz in" with the correct answer and won this match. Greg later said that he felt like the answer was on the "tip of his tongue," but it would just not come to mind. He had experienced a memory that was

Accepted Answer

A) available but not accessible. 
B) temporary rather than permanent. 
C) short-term but not long-term. 
D) procedural rather than semantic.

Question 4

Which of the following is considered a retrieval strategy?

Accepted Answer

A) selection 
B) organization 
C) recitation 
D) progressive-part method

Question 5

In a classic experiment, a psychologist read a short passage in Greek to his son every day when the boy was between 15 months and 3 years of age. At age 8, he was asked to recall the passage, to recognize the passage, and later to memorize the original quotations and others of equal difficulty. Which of the following was the most sensitive measure of memory in this study?

Accepted Answer

A) recall 
B) recognition 
C) relearning 
D) redintegration

Question 6

A witness may select a photo of a suspect from police files or see a photo in the news. Later, the witness identifies the suspect in a lineup or in court. Did the witness really remember the suspect from the scene of the crime? Or was it from the more recently seen photograph? This illustrates the problem of

Accepted Answer

A) false memories. 
B) eidetic imagery. 
C) implicit priming. 
D) semantic memories.

Question 7

Forgetting may be due to a failure in any of the following EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

A) encoding. 
B) retrieval. 
C) storage. 
D) feedback.

Question 8

Monica skipped lunch today and is now very hungry. Suddenly she remembers the day she was preparing for some medical tests and could not eat anything and how hungry she felt then. Her present hunger triggered a past memory of when she was very hungry, which suggests that memory is

Accepted Answer

A) proactive. 
B) repressed. 
C) eidetic. 
D) state-dependent.

Question 9

As a visitor to England, you as an American, have difficulty remembering to drive on the left side of the road as they do and to look in the opposite way before crossing the street. This illustrates

Accepted Answer

A) negative transfer. 
B) negative reinforcement. 
C) modeling. 
D) avoidance conditioning.

Question 10

Strategies used in a cognitive interview that help recreate the context in which the information was learned include

Accepted Answer

A) skilled use of mnemonics. 
B) revisiting the scene in one's imagination or in person. 
C) working on sensory and attentional processes. 
D) using dream analysis to remember details.

Question 11

When Martin boils down the paragraphs in his physics book to one or two important points, he is helping his memory by using the technique called

Accepted Answer

A) organization. 
B) repetition. 
C) selection. 
D) serial positioning.

Question 12

Memories of historical fact, such as the names of the battles during the Civil War or mathematical formulas would be considered __________ memories.

Accepted Answer

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

Question 13

When taking a test, a helpful strategy that can aid recall of information is to go through the alphabet, trying each letter as the first sound of a name or word you are seeking.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Déjà vu experiences feel familiar but yet strange because

Accepted Answer

A) redintegration has occurred and obscured most of the memory. 
B) elaborative processing obscured the original memory. 
C) repression is only partially able to block the memory from your awareness. 
D) a past memory was retrieved but was too weak to yield adequate details.

Question 15

If you witnessed a crime and were asked to pick out the person who committed the crime from a lineup of six people, the other five people are called

Accepted Answer

A) savings. 
B) distractors. 
C) primers. 
D) false positives.

Question 16

When a new experience triggers the retrieval of a past experience without yielding any of the details, this new experience seems familiar even though the older memory is too weak to rise to the level of awareness. This experience is known as

Accepted Answer

A) déjà vu. 
B) eidetic imagery. 
C) lucid dreaming. 
D) a sane hallucination.

Question 17

Remembering what you had for lunch yesterday and the family reunion last weekend are examples of a type of declarative memory known as __________ memory.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Remembering what you had for lunch yesterday...

Question 18

Regarding the forgetting of information, which of the following statements is FALSE?

Accepted Answer

A) During testing, meaningful information is lost just as quickly as nonsense syllables. 
B) A short delay between studying and taking a test minimizes forgetting. 
C) When one studies, it is best to use short, daily study sessions and then review intensely before the test. 
D) If one only crams for a test, he or she may not learn enough material in the first place.

Question 19

A subpart of declarative memories that has no connections with times or places so that people do not remember when and where they learned these specific facts are referred to as ___________ memories.

Accepted Answer

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

Question 20

According to blood flow patterns, the cortex of the brain appears to be where which type of memory is stored?

Accepted Answer

A) procedural 
B) eidetic 
C) skill 
D) declarative

Exam 7: Memory