Question 1

Research on false memories has found that ____. ​

Accepted Answer

A) false memories are usually experienced only during times of emotional distress 
B) people are often as confident in false memories as they are with actual memories 
C) people who test low on introversion and dissociation are more susceptible to developing false memories 
D) messages in pop culture have little influence on how people view repressed memories of abuse

Question 2

Luke does not like his roommate's girlfriend, and he keeps forgetting to tell his roommate when the girlfriend calls their land line. Which concept best explains his actions? ​

Accepted Answer

A) interference 
B) decay theory 
C) motivated forgetting 
D) disuse

Question 3

The variable that largely determines whether information is moved from the sensory registers to short-term memory is ____. ​

Accepted Answer

A) selective attention 
B) rehearsal 
C) chunking 
D) serial search

Question 4

Al is on the witness stand. He is asked if he can remember the name of the person who told him to place the bet. Al replies that he thinks the last name of the person starts with C . Al's response is an example of ____. ​

Accepted Answer

A) penultimate response 
B) feeling-of-knowing experience 
C) spontaneous generalization 
D) tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon

Question 5

Alexis is in a courtroom as an eyewitness to a crime. Alexis ____. ​

Accepted Answer

A) might be influenced by her own emotional needs in what she remembers 
B) will remember things exactly as they occurred 
C) will not be biased in her recall of the events 
D) will have no trouble retrieving memories from long-term memory because of the stress of being on the witness stand

Question 6

Oliver was in an auto accident and now has difficulty remembering anything new. He can remember everything prior to his accident, but nothing since it. His doctors suspect that his ____ has been damaged. ​

Accepted Answer

A) hippocampus 
B) cerebral cortex 
C) thalamus 
D) amygdala

Question 7

Missa, your psychology instructor, places a basketball net upon her head. She says, "See how when I pull this part of the net, all of the links in the net closest to this point are being pulled farther along. And this part of the net isn't even moving." Missa's demonstration highlights how ____ works within a ____. ​

Accepted Answer

A) spreading activation; multiple memory system model 
B) spreading activation; semantic network 
C) encoding specificity; multiple memory system model 
D) encoding specificity; semantic network

Question 8

People in an experiment read a passage and then are asked to identify a list of statements that the passage may or may not have contained. The people are good at recognizing statements with the same meaning as the ones that they have heard, but they cannot identify the exact wording of these statements. This is due to ____. ​

Accepted Answer

A) chunking 
B) dual-coding theory 
C) inadequate rehearsal 
D) semantic encoding

Question 9

If the letters OBACKFIBHJCA are rearranged into HBO-JFK-CIA-ABC, they become much easier to store in short-term memory. This phenomenon illustrates the usefulness of ____in short-term memory. ​

Accepted Answer

A) rehearsal 
B) chunking 
C) peg-word systems 
D) the method of loci

Question 10

Damon has an average memory, and he is trying to keep a seven-digit phone number in his short-term memory. This number is likely to be ____. ​

Accepted Answer

A) too long for him to keep in short-term memory 
B) forgotten after one second if it is unrehearsed 
C) encoded acoustically rather than semantically 
D) remembered if Damon's levels of acetylcholine are low

Question 11

As Minna smells the hay and manure in the barn, she begins to feel uneasy. Although she isn't consciously aware of it, she is recalling the night that she was at the circus and stepped on by an elephant. This is an example of ____ memory. ​

Accepted Answer

A) sensory 
B) procedural 
C) explicit 
D) implicit

Question 12

Stuart is trying to remember the word car . If he makes a mistake in recalling the word within fifteen seconds of hearing it, which word will he be most likely to mistakenly recall instead? ​

Accepted Answer

A) Fun 
B) Heavy 
C) Jar 
D) Auto

Question 13

According to Ebbinghaus's forgetting curve, you should review your lecture notes within the first ____ after class. ​

Accepted Answer

A) week 
B) three days 
C) twenty-four hours 
D) nine hours

Question 14

Many death row inmates are convicted on the basis of eyewitness testimony. Which statement best represents what is known about this kind of testimony? ​

Accepted Answer

A) Eyewitness testimony is highly reliable. 
B) Good and bad eyewitness testimony is evaluated accurately by juries. 
C) Eyewitness testimony can be biased by the type of questions that are asked. 
D) Eyewitness testimony is never reliable.

Question 15

You look up the phone number of your favorite pizza maker and say it over and over to yourself as you walk across the room to the phone. Before you reach the phone, your roommate bursts in and exclaims, "Look at this-it's the new Beck album!" "Cool!" you reply. Then you become frustrated because you cannot remember the phone number. This is most likely due to the process of ____. ​

Accepted Answer

A) decay 
B) proactive inhibition 
C) selective attention 
D) the primacy effect

Question 16

Perry is the lead singer for a jazz group called John's Prediction, for which he has learned several jazz songs. After a couple of years, he decides to join a blues group called Petrol for Pinholes, and he learns a number of blues songs. On stage one night, he tries to remember a jazz song from John's Prediction and hasdifficulty in doing so. Perry is showing evidence of ____. ​

Accepted Answer

A) constructive memory 
B) delay of processing deficit 
C) retroactive inhibition 
D) proactive inhibition

Question 17

Warren is trying to remember the following list: table, rock, phone, and apple. When recalling the list from his short-term memory, he makes a mistake and recalls the wrong word as he tries to remember the word rock . Which word will Warren most likely recall instead of rock? ​

Accepted Answer

A) clock 
B) stone 
C) hair 
D) round

Question 18

Remembering what the word summer means requires ____ memory, while remembering what you did on July 4, 1996, requires ____ memory. ​

Accepted Answer

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

Question 19

Felicia is studying for her Psych 100 midterm. Because she studies so hard for the quizzes earlier in the semester, she finds that it is taking her less time to relearn many of the concepts and terms. The difference between the amount of time it takes Felicia to initially learn the material for the quizzes and the amount of time it is taking her to relearn the material for the midterm is known as ____. ​

Accepted Answer

A) primacy 
B) mnemonics 
C) recency 
D) savings

Question 20

Elka can remember the phone number she just looked up only by repeating it over and over. When she stops saying it out loud, she forgets it. Elka is using ____ rehearsal to keep the information in ____ memory. ​

Accepted Answer

A) maintenance; short-term 
B) maintenance; sensory 
C) elaborative; short-term 
D) elaborative; sensory

Exam 6: Memory

Research on false memories has found that ____.

Luke does not like his roommate's girlfriend, and he keeps forgetting to tell his roommate when the girlfriend calls their land line. Which concept best explains his actions?

The variable that largely determines whether information is moved from the sensory registers to short-term memory is ____.

Al is on the witness stand. He is asked if he can remember the name of the person who told him to place the bet. Al replies that he thinks the last name of the person starts with C . Al's response is an example of ____.

Alexis is in a courtroom as an eyewitness to a crime. Alexis ____.

Oliver was in an auto accident and now has difficulty remembering anything new. He can remember everything prior to his accident, but nothing since it. His doctors suspect that his ____ has been damaged.

If the letters OBACKFIBHJCA are rearranged into HBO-JFK-CIA-ABC, they become much easier to store in short-term memory. This phenomenon illustrates the usefulness of ____in short-term memory.

Damon has an average memory, and he is trying to keep a seven-digit phone number in his short-term memory. This number is likely to be ____.

As Minna smells the hay and manure in the barn, she begins to feel uneasy. Although she isn't consciously aware of it, she is recalling the night that she was at the circus and stepped on by an elephant. This is an example of ____ memory.

Stuart is trying to remember the word car . If he makes a mistake in recalling the word within fifteen seconds of hearing it, which word will he be most likely to mistakenly recall instead?

According to Ebbinghaus's forgetting curve, you should review your lecture notes within the first ____ after class.

Many death row inmates are convicted on the basis of eyewitness testimony. Which statement best represents what is known about this kind of testimony?

Warren is trying to remember the following list: table, rock, phone, and apple. When recalling the list from his short-term memory, he makes a mistake and recalls the wrong word as he tries to remember the word rock . Which word will Warren most likely recall instead of rock?

Remembering what the word summer means requires memory, while remembering what you did on July 4, 1996, requires memory.

Elka can remember the phone number she just looked up only by repeating it over and over. When she stops saying it out loud, she forgets it. Elka is using rehearsal to keep the information in memory.