Question 1

Which of the following methods seems LEAST likely to be evidence of an implicit memory?

Accepted Answer

A) declaring that George Washington was the first president of the United States 
B) successfully riding a bike 
C) believing something is true because you have previously heard it 
D) classical conditioning

Question 2

In many circumstances,participants correctly recognize that a stimulus is familiar,but they
Are mistaken in their beliefs about where and when they encountered the stimulus.This error
Is referred to as

Accepted Answer

A) source confusion. 
B) origin error. 
C) amnesia. 
D) false identification.

Question 3

When you are trying to access information in long-term memory,you use a

Accepted Answer

A) harmonic search. 
B) retrieval path. 
C) random search strategy. 
D) serial,exhaustive search.

Question 4

In the "remember/know" paradigm,a response of "know" is NOT

Accepted Answer

A) given when the participant can recall details about the context in which a stimulus was encountered. 
B) given when a participant thinks the stimulus was previously encountered,but he or she cannot remember any contextual details. 
C) associated with activity in the parahippocampal area. 
D) associated with familiarity.

Question 5

Context has an effect on memory

Accepted Answer

A) because it interferes with the retrieval paths. 
B) only if the information is recalled in the same physical environment where it was learned. 
C) because it influences how the person thinks of the material to be remembered. 
D) but not on the way a person perceives a memory.

Question 6

Compare and contrast implicit and explicit memory.Include in your discussion a description of the various testing methods that are used to assess each type of memory.

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Question 7

Which of the following statements is an example of a recognition test?

Accepted Answer

A) "Which one of these individuals is the person you saw at the party?" 
B) "Describe how you spent New Year's Eve in 1994." 
C) "What is the formula needed for computing the area of a circle?" 
D) "What political event does this song remind you of ?"

Question 8

Current evidence indicates that patients suffering from Korsakoff's amnesia

Accepted Answer

A) show greater disruption in implicit memory than in explicit memory. 
B) suffer from disruption in both implicit and explicit memory. 
C) show intact implicit memory with perceptual cues but disrupted implicit memory with conceptual cues. 
D) have preserved implicit memory despite severe disruption in explicit memory.

Question 9

Your friend asks you what you ate for breakfast yesterday morning.Describe how you might search and retrieve that information by considering how activation might spread through a network.

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Question 10

Describe the "remember/know" paradigm by answering the following questions:
a.What is the primary task in this paradigm?
b.On what process does "remembering" depend? What about "knowing"?
c.What does this paradigm tell us about the nature of memory?

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Question 11

Which of the following statements is NOT likely to be an influence of implicit memory?

Accepted Answer

A) Participants know they have encountered the stimulus recently but cannot recall the details of the encounter. 
B) Participants have a preference for a familiar stimulus in comparison to other,new stimuli. 
C) Participants find a claim to be more credible merely because they encountered it at some point in the past,even if they have no memory of that encounter. 
D) Participants remember the circumstances in which they first encountered a stimulus.

Question 12

The term "processing pathway" refers to

Accepted Answer

A) the steps one goes through in retrieving information from memory. 
B) the sequences of nodes and connections between nodes that activation flows through. 
C) the connections between the retina and the occipital cortex. 
D) the increased ease of recall that results from repeated exposure.

Question 13

A researcher hypothesizes that high doses of caffeine can produce context-dependent learning.To confirm this hypothesis,the researcher would need to show that

Accepted Answer

A) participants learn more effectively if they drink several cups of coffee before studying the material to be learned. 
B) participants' recall performance is improved if they are tested soon after drinking several cups of coffee. 
C) participants who drink a lot of coffee are,in general,likely to do better on memory tests. 
D) if participants study the material while drinking a great deal of coffee,they will remember the material better if they drink a great deal of coffee while taking the memory test.

Question 14

In the "false fame" experiments,participants were asked to read through a list of names,merely pronouncing each name out loud.Later,participants were shown a second list,and asked which names on this list were the names of the famous people.Some of these names were utterly fictitious but were actually repeats of names that had appeared on the earlier (pronunciation)list.People were most likely to identify a fictitious name as famous if

Accepted Answer

A) the pronunciation task and the famous judgments were separated by at least 24 hours. 
B) the pronunciation task and the famous judgments were separated by only a few minutes. 
C) many fictitious names were shown on the second (fame)list. 
D) the individual had previously completed a famous name identification task.

Question 15

Like patients with Korsakoff 's syndrome,H.M.has difficulty with

Accepted Answer

A) implicit memory tasks. 
B) unconscious memory. 
C) familiarity. 
D) recall.

Question 16

Theodore has suffered from Korsakoff's amnesia for the last decade.Theodore is LEAST likely to do which of the following actions?

Accepted Answer

A) accurately recall events from early childhood 
B) hold a coherent conversation 
C) recall events that occurred last month 
D) recognize people he met 18 years ago

Question 17

In many settings,a person experiences a sense of familiarity but no accompanying source memory.This pattern is LEAST likely to lead to

Accepted Answer

A) the person believing that a familiar statement is true,even though he or she cannot remember where he or she heard it. 
B) the person inaccurately accusing someone of a crime,merely because that person seems familiar. 
C) the person's preferences changing in favor of the familiar information. 
D) explicit recollection of a person's name or profession.

Question 18

A participant is asked to memorize a series of word pairs,including the pair "heavy-light." The participant is asked a series of questions: "Was 'lamp' one of the words you saw? Was 'candle' one of the words? Was 'spark' one of the words? Was 'light' one of the words?" The participant answers "no" to each of these questions,probably because

Accepted Answer

A) the learning context does not provide adequate support for perceptual encoding. 
B) the learning context does relatively little to encourage deep processing. 
C) what was memorized was the idea of "light" as a description of weight,not "light" as illumination. 
D) the learning context led the participant to think in terms of opposites,while the test context led the participant to think in terms of semantic associates.

Question 19

An investigator asks,"Can you remember what happened last Tuesday at noon while you were sitting in the back room of Jane's Restaurant?" This is an example of a question relying on

Accepted Answer

A) recognition. 
B) implicit memory. 
C) procedural memory. 
D) recall.

Question 20

Steve is shown a list of words that includes "baby." He is then asked to list all the words he can remember from the list,but he does not include "baby." Steve is later given a lexical decision task in which he has to decide,for each of the letter strings presented,whether the string is an actual word or not.One of the letter strings presented in the lexical decision task,though,is "baby." Which of the following patterns is most likely to reflect Steve's performance on this identification task?

Accepted Answer

A) Steve will say "baby" is a nonword. 
B) Steve will respond more quickly to "baby" than he would to other words. 
C) Steve will respond more slowly to "baby" relative to nonwords. 
D) Steve's response time will be about the same to "baby" as to all other items on the test.

Exam 7: Interconnections Between Acquisi-Tion and Retrieval