Question 1

Roderick falls off a ladder and sustains brain injuries.When asked about the events leading up to the accident,he says that he cannot remember.Roderick is most likely experiencing ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  retrograde amnesia 
B)  repression 
C)  short-term memory loss 
D)  anterograde amnesia

Question 2

When Frances went to work this morning,she checked her voice mail.Her boss left her a message outlining twenty-six tasks that she needs to complete.Unfortunately,the message was accidentally deleted after Frances listened to it once.Because she did not write down the tasks as she listened to the message,how many of the tasks will Frances most likely remember?

Accepted Answer

A)  one to four 
B)  five to nine 
C)  ten to fourteen 
D)  fifteen to nineteen

Question 3

Toni has to remember her shopping list,which contains the following items: lemons,saw,beer,napkins,apples,lettuce,nails,cups,juice,newspaper,magazine,milk,and screwdriver.She decides to mentally place the items in categories: (1)lemons,apples,lettuce; (2)beer,juice,milk; (3)saw,nails,screwdriver; (4)newspaper,magazine; and (5)napkins,cups.Which method did Toni not use in this process?

Accepted Answer

A)  chunking 
B)  long-term memory 
C)  Brown-Peterson distractor technique 
D)  short-term memory

Question 4

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 5

Tami lights a sparkler and hands it to her young son,Jacob.She tells Jacob to write his name in the air with the sparkler.She can see this "writing" because the light from the sparkler is briefly held in her ____ memory.

Accepted Answer

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

Question 6

When asked to describe an examination room at his doctor's office,John seemed to do an accurate job.However,he included a framed medical degree on the wall that in fact was not there.This is an illustration of ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  context specific memory 
B)  elaborative rehearsal 
C)  constructive memory 
D)  a retrieval cue

Question 7

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 8

Shana cannot remember anything about the months prior to the plane crash she was in,nor can she remember anything about the accident itself.Shana is experiencing ____ amnesia.

Accepted Answer

A)  anterograde 
B)  psychogenic 
C)  hippocampal 
D)  retrograde

Question 9

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 10

Trevor is in a car accident and receives a fairly serious head injury.Although he can remember his name and can recognize his twelve cats,he is unable to remember anything that has happened since the accident.Trevor is experiencing ____ amnesia.

Accepted Answer

A)  anterograde 
B)  short-term; long-term 
C)  preliminary; consolidated 
D)  sensory; working

Question 11

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 12

Quintin needs to call the local department store to see if his catalog order has come in.He finds the telephone number in the phone book,mentally rehearses the number,and calls the department store.Most likely,this number is stored in ____ memory.

Accepted Answer

A)  short-term 
B)  long-term 
C)  episodic 
D)  semantic

Question 13

Stan is trying to remember the name of the people in his new study group.He visualizes Stacey at the kitchen table,Lucy in the hallway,Monty at the microwave,and Mandy at the refrigerator.Stan is using a memory enhancing strategy known as ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  the PQ4R method 
B)  elaboration 
C)  acronymnemonics 
D)  method of loci

Question 14

According to the encoding specificity principle,which retrieval cue would work bestfor the sentence,"The dog ate the bone?"

Accepted Answer

A)  hungry animal 
B)  you have heard it before 
C)  contains five words 
D)  it's a sentence

Question 15

Phan just moved to a new town and is having trouble remembering his new phone number.When someone asks for his new number,Phan usually provides the old one.Phan's forgetfulness is probably due to ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  decay 
B)  retroactive inhibition 
C)  proactive inhibition 
D)  consolidation

Question 16

Bill tries to think back to his grade school play and remember the songs that they sang.However,he has trouble recalling the songs because those memories have faded with time.This kind of forgetting is called ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  retroactive inhibition 
B)  decay 
C)  the feeling-of-knowing experience 
D)  anterograde amnesia

Question 17

As Red ages,his ability to remember things is declining.His doctor believes that there is a biological reason for this deterioration and prescribes a drug to improve Red's memory.The doctor most likely prescribed a drug that would ____ the amount of _____ activity in the brain.

Accepted Answer

A)  increase; dopamine 
B)  decrease; glutamate 
C)  increase; acetylcholine 
D)  decrease; serotonin

Question 18

If Greta is having an essay exam,she studies one way.If she is having a multiple-choice exam,she studies a different way.Greta's actions best support the ____ model of memory.

Accepted Answer

A)  transfer-appropriate processing 
B)  information-processing 
C)  levels-of-processing 
D)  parallel distributed processing

Question 19

Bart tells Lisa about his new cat,Scratchy.Even though Bart does not mention that Scratchy has fur,Lisa knows this because she makes this generalization from the facts she knows about cats.Lisa's generalization about Scratchy best demonstrates ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  the relearning method 
B)  a false memory 
C)  the feeling-of-knowing experience 
D)  a parallel distributed processing model of memory

Question 20

Willow takes sociology in the fall semester,and in the spring semester,she takes psychology.She is finding that she is having difficulty remembering the psychology material because the sociology material keeps coming to mind.Willow is experiencing ____ inhibition.

Accepted Answer

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

Exam 5: Memory