Question 1

Posttraumatic stress disorder is an example of:

Accepted Answer

A)  retrograde amnesia 
B)  persistence 
C)  anterograde amnesia 
D)  none of the above

Question 2

Students taking an introductory class in a subject that is completely new to them often find that the material seems very disorganized and confusing at the beginning.As the class progresses,the information seems to become better structured,and the students find it easier to integrate and interpret new material.One important reason for this happy change is that the students are developing _____ that allow them to make sense of,organize,and utilize information in memory.

Accepted Answer

A)  prototypes 
B)  schemas 
C)  frames 
D)  feature lists

Question 3

As a participant in a psychology experiment,Michael is shadowing a physics passage in his right ear while hearing a novel being read in his left ear.Michael wants to get done so he can go home and watch the big game.If a sentence giving the score in the game is inserted into the passage from the novel,Michael is most likely to:

Accepted Answer

A)  shadow the right ear material and attend to the left ear material 
B)  shadow the right ear material and ignore the left ear material 
C)  shadow the left ear material and ignore the right ear material 
D)  shadow the left ear material and attend to the right ear material

Question 4

The memory enhancement that occurs when the situations during encoding and recall match is called _____ memory; the memory enhancement that occurs when the internal states during encoding and recall match is called _____ memory.

Accepted Answer

A)  context-dependent; state-dependent 
B)  semantic; episodic 
C)  episodic; semantic 
D)  state-dependent; context-dependent

Question 5

Suppose you need to learn the following list: "pen,ship,log,cup,paper,radio,rose,sun,chair,glass,fork,wave." Which of the following types of study would lead you to the best recall?

Accepted Answer

A)  count the number of vowels in each word 
B)  relate each word to a fond childhood memory 
C)  think about whether each word rhymes with den 
D)  passively listen to the list while counting backward from 100 by 3s

Question 6

Elaboration is an effective mnemonic strategy because the information learned is processed more:

Accepted Answer

A)  often 
B)  deeply 
C)  intentionally 
D)  automatically

Question 7

You are following the plot of a complicated Shakespeare play quite clearly while you are watching it.However,the next week you find that you cannot remember the details.Your loss of memory is most likely due to:

Accepted Answer

A)  transience 
B)  interference 
C)  blocking 
D)  absentmindedness

Question 8

To remember more information,_____ can be used to organize information into meaningful units.

Accepted Answer

A)  cognitive maps 
B)  chunking 
C)  association networks 
D)  none of the above

Question 9

Maria goes to see a therapist.She is depressed because her romantic relationships do not last.Her therapist specializes in disorders rooted in childhood abuse and uses special techniques to uncover repressed memories of this abuse.A potential problem for Maria in seeing this therapist is that:

Accepted Answer

A)  she may not be able to handle remembering the abuse 
B)  the therapist may not be able to address other problems 
C)  she may deliberately describe false cases of abuse to please her therapist 
D)  the therapist may unintentionally create false memories of abuse

Question 10

If you spend the same amount of time reviewing material as testing yourself on the material,you will learn more from _____ because of the increased _____ time.

Accepted Answer

A)  reviewing; rehearsal 
B)  reviewing; retrieval 
C)  testing; retrieval 
D)  testing; rehearsal

Question 11

You vividly remember what you were doing when you heard about the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11,2001.What you remember is a _____ memory and is therefore likely to be _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  flashbulb; more accurate than memory for ordinary events 
B)  true; more accurate than memory for ordinary events 
C)  false; less accurate than memory for ordinary events 
D)  flashbulb; as accurate as memory for ordinary events

Question 12

The memory of your wedding day is an example of a(n):

Accepted Answer

A)  procedural memory 
B)  declarative memory 
C)  episodic memory 
D)  semantic memory

Question 13

Filter theory was developed to explain:

Accepted Answer

A)  change blindness 
B)  the selective nature of attention 
C)  the processing of personally irrelevant information 
D)  shadowing

Question 14

If you can remember exactly what you did yesterday but have trouble remembering the names of the 50 states,then you have excellent _____ memory but somewhat poor _____ memory.

Accepted Answer

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

Exam 7: Attention and Memory

Posttraumatic stress disorder is an example of:

The memory enhancement that occurs when the situations during encoding and recall match is called _ memory; the memory enhancement that occurs when the internal states during encoding and recall match is called _ memory.

Suppose you need to learn the following list: "pen,ship,log,cup,paper,radio,rose,sun,chair,glass,fork,wave." Which of the following types of study would lead you to the best recall?

Elaboration is an effective mnemonic strategy because the information learned is processed more:

You are following the plot of a complicated Shakespeare play quite clearly while you are watching it.However,the next week you find that you cannot remember the details.Your loss of memory is most likely due to:

To remember more information,_____ can be used to organize information into meaningful units.

Maria goes to see a therapist.She is depressed because her romantic relationships do not last.Her therapist specializes in disorders rooted in childhood abuse and uses special techniques to uncover repressed memories of this abuse.A potential problem for Maria in seeing this therapist is that:

If you spend the same amount of time reviewing material as testing yourself on the material,you will learn more from _ because of the increased _ time.

You vividly remember what you were doing when you heard about the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11,2001.What you remember is a _ memory and is therefore likely to be _.

The memory of your wedding day is an example of a(n) :

Filter theory was developed to explain:

If you can remember exactly what you did yesterday but have trouble remembering the names of the 50 states,then you have excellent _ memory but somewhat poor _ memory.