Question 1

Varian is finding it hard to learn Greek in his first year of college because he took Latin in his last two years of high school. This is an example of _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  motivated forgetting 
B)  proactive interference 
C)  retroactive interference 
D)  temporary amnesia

Question 2

The two major systems of long-term memory are _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  explicit and declarative 
B)  semantic and procedural 
C)  implicit and nondeclarative 
D)  explicit and implicit

Question 3

You need to buy ten grocery items: meat, poultry, raisins, soda, tomatoes, oranges, milk, cookies, apples, and tea. Illustrate how you would use each of the following mnemonic devices to remember this list: method of loci, outline organization and acronyms. .

Accepted Answer

The answer of You need to buy ten grocery items:...

Question 4

Short-term memory receives information from _____ memory.

Accepted Answer

A)  sensory 
B)  sensory and working 
C)  long-term 
D)  sensory and long-term

Question 5

When you blow dry your hair in the morning, you are using _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  priming 
B)  procedural memory 
C)  explicit memory 
D)  episodic memory

Question 6

Knowledge of facts and the relationships between them is called _____ memory, whereas knowledge of events is called _____ memory.

Accepted Answer

A)  informative; autobiographical 
B)  factual; landmark 
C)  semantic; episodic 
D)  explicit; implicit

Question 7

If you erroneously recall the reading the word "sleep" on a list of words like ""snooze, nap, rest, wake, doze," you are probably _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  suffering from the sleeper effect 
B)  experiencing anterograde amnesia 
C)  constructing a false memory 
D)  experiencing early signs of Alzheimer"s disease

Question 8

Cramming is another term for _____, which is an inefficient form of studying.

Accepted Answer

A)  serial studying 
B)  buddy studying 
C)  massed practice 
D)  priming

Question 9

Hormones _____ memory.

Accepted Answer

A)  improve 
B)  impair 
C)  can either improve or impair 
D)  are unrelated to

Question 10

Your vivid memory of what you were doing when you learned about the attack on the World Trade Center is an example of _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  the encoding specificity principle 
B)  long-term potentiation 
C)  latent learning 
D)  a flashbulb memory

Question 11

Ralph fell through the floor of his tree house and found himself in the hospital. He has no memory of his hospital stay, which suggests he has developed _____ amnesia.

Accepted Answer

A)  retroactive 
B)  proactive 
C)  anterograde 
D)  retrograde

Question 12

Describe the retrieval process, focusing on retrieval cues, recognition, recall, and priming, illustrating each with a personal example.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Describe the retrieval process, focusing on retrieval...

Question 13

In answering this question, the correct multiple-choice option may serve as a _____ for recalling accurate information from your long-term memory.

Accepted Answer

A)  specificity code 
B)  priming pump 
C)  retrieval cue 
D)  flashbulb stimulus

Question 14

______ is (are) important if one wants to learn and remember a great deal of information.

Accepted Answer

A)  Maintenance rehearsal 
B)  Attention 
C)  Organization and association 
D)  Perception

Question 15

The memory subsystem that stores unconscious procedural skills, simple classically conditioned responses, and priming is called _____ memory.

Accepted Answer

A)  primary/unconscious 
B)  explicit/declarative 
C)  implicit/nondeclarative 
D)  nonverbal unconscious

Question 16

Of the three memory stages, _____ has the greatest capacity and the longest duration.

Accepted Answer

A)  sensory memory 
B)  long-term memory 
C)  short-term memory 
D)  working memory

Question 17

This is an encoding technique linking new information to previously stored material in LTM.

Accepted Answer

A)  Elaborative rehearsal 
B)  Shallow processing 
C)  Maintenance rehearsal 
D)  Hierarchical encoding

Question 18

The immediate goal of elaborative rehearsal is to _____ new information.

Accepted Answer

A)  recall 
B)  memorize 
C)  understand 
D)  recognize

Question 19

The three steps in memory processing are _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  encoding, storage, retrieval 
B)  translations, maintenance, transmittal 
C)  dictation, capturing, regurgitation 
D)  encrypting, sensory retention, neural processing

Question 20

According to retrieval failure theory, memories stored in LTM are _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  never really forgotten (tip-of-the-tongue-phenomenon) 
B)  frequently inaccessible 
C)  lost once they are transferred to the unconscious 
D)  forgotten rather than repressed

Exam 7: Memory