Question 1

As discussed in the text,one of the unfortunate results of the popular coverage of false memory syndrome cases has been the

Accepted Answer

A)  reduction in sensitivity to actual child abuse. 
B)  complete mistrust of all psychiatrists. 
C)  ban on psychologists testifying in court cases. 
D)  increased use of Amytal ("truth drug") to verify cases of abuse.

Question 2

Information is remembered,without explicit cues or stimuli,and often verbatim,when which of the following is used to measure memory?

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

Question 3

Research with people who have brain damage and are unable to store new memories points to the importance of which brain part in the process of consolidation?

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A)  hippocampus 
B)  thalamus 
C)  pons 
D)  reticular formation

Question 4

An experiment was conducted in which a person is talking to a young adult stranger and two workers carrying a door pass between this person and the young man.Another young man is switched with the original stranger.Only half that were tested this way noticed the switch.What were the conclusions regarding this experiment?

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A)  More college students did not notice the switch because they were in a hurry and thinking about getting to their next class. 
B)  More older persons did not notice the switch because their brains are beginning to be damaged by the onset of senility. 
C)  More older persons did not notice because they encoded both young men in very general terms as a "college student." 
D)  More older persons did not notice the switch because of poor visual acuity.

Question 5

The type of memory which a person does not know exists and which is retrieved unconsciously is called __________ memory.

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A)  explicit 
B)  implicit 
C)  eidetic 
D)  flash-bulb

Question 6

You worked for 10 years after high school and have now decided to go back to college.One of the courses you will be taking first semester is World Civilization.You had World History when you were in tenth grade.However,as you go through your college history class,you realize that you are learning this material very quickly because you must have retained memories from your high school history class.This story illustrates

Accepted Answer

A)  recall. 
B)  constructive processing. 
C)  recognition. 
D)  relearning.

Question 7

When conducting a police line-up,it is best to have all the distractors look like the person witnesses described and also to warn the witnesses that the suspect may not be present in the line-up.These steps will reduce the occurrence of

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A)  false positives. 
B)  proactive interference. 
C)  the serial position effect. 
D)  memory consolidation.

Question 8

Your first psychology quiz consists of 20 fill-in-the-blank questions on the history of psychology.This test is measuring memory by

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

Question 9

According to the explanation of interference as a cause of forgetting,retention will be best when a study session is followed by

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A)  sleep. 
B)  light reading or watching TV. 
C)  studying similar subject matter. 
D)  studying different subject matter.

Question 10

A research participant is asked to memorize a list of words.The next day,this participant is asked to write all the words on a piece of paper that she can remember were on the list.This type of task illustrates the measurement of memory through

Accepted Answer

A)  serial position. 
B)  recall. 
C)  relearning. 
D)  recognition.

Question 11

When students who go to graduate school have to brush up on a foreign language they learned before,they find it easier the second time around.This illustrates

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

Question 12

Memories currently stored in memory are available,but in order for them to be retrieved,they must be

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A)  redintegrated. 
B)  accessible. 
C)  procedural memories. 
D)  implicit memories.

Question 13

A member of your favorite study group from last semester is walking toward you in the mall,but you cannot remember her name.You are sure you would be able to remember her name if you were back on campus in the library room where the group met to study.Maybe when you hear her voice,her name will come back to you.You are experiencing

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A)  cue-dependent forgetting. 
B)  encoding failure. 
C)  repression. 
D)  suppression.

Question 14

Multiple choice and matching questions involve measuring memory through

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

Question 15

The occurrence of false positives during police lineups can be minimized by all of the following techniques EXCEPT for

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A)  having all the distractors look like the person witnesses described. 
B)  warning witnesses that the culprit may not be present in the lineup. 
C)  using very dissimilar distractors to aid recognition. 
D)  using a sequential lineup in which one photo at a time is shown.

Question 16

In his studies of memory,Ebbinghaus wanted to be sure he would not be swayed by prior learning,so he used

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A)  common everyday words. 
B)  nonsense syllables. 
C)  short, easily pronounced words. 
D)  individual letters.

Question 17

Eyewitnesses tend to be better at identifying members of their own ethnic group than persons from other groups.This phenomenon is best explained by

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A)  memory decay. 
B)  the disuse theory of forgetting. 
C)  the tendency to categorize strangers in general terms. 
D)  the tendency to repress traumatic encounters.

Question 18

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

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

Question 19

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?

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