Question 1

Memories that we are consciously aware of and can be verbalized,including facts about the world and one's own personal experiences,are called ______________ memories.

Accepted Answer

A) phonological 
B) procedural 
C) nondeclarative 
D) declarative

Question 2

The hippocampus seems to be essential for __________.

Accepted Answer

A) the recall of old memories 
B) maintaining one's balance 
C) the formation of new long-term memories 
D) proactive and retroactive inhibition

Question 3

If you want to remember something for a couple of minutes,the MOST effective device is __________.

Accepted Answer

A) visual imagery 
B) tactile imagery 
C) rote rehearsal 
D) elaborative rehearsal

Question 4

Proactive interference of long-term memory means ______.

Accepted Answer

A) new material interferes with memory of old material 
B) new material has suppressed short-term memories 
C) old material interferes with memory of new material 
D) old material has eliminated memories of new material

Question 5

Retroactive interference of long-term memory means __________.

Accepted Answer

A) new material interferes with memory of old material 
B) new material has suppressed short-term memories 
C) old material interferes with memory of new material 
D) old material has eliminated memories of new material

Question 6

Dimetri is in a car acciendent in which he loses consciousness after hitting his head on the steering wheel.When he awakens,he cannot remember leaving his house,getting in his car,or any of the events leading up to the acciendent.He is diagnoised with a mild case of _________________ amnesia at the hospital.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Dimetri is in a car acciendent in...

Question 7

Margeaux is introduced to the following people when she arrives at the party: Derek,Kayla,Calvin,Debbie,Rose,Melanie,Garrett,Tom,Francis,Jane,and Vincent.According to the serial-position effect,it will be most DIFFICULT to remember the names of

Accepted Answer

A) Derek,Kayla,Jane,and Vincent. 
B) Tom,Francis,Jane,and Vincent. 
C) Derek,Kayla,Melanie,and Garrett. 
D) Debbie,Rose,Melanie,and Garrett.

Question 8

Recent research suggests that working memory includes a(n)_______________,which acts as a storage component of working memory that combines the images and sounds from the other two components into coherent,story-like episodes.

Accepted Answer

A) phonological loop 
B) central executive 
C) episodic buffer 
D) visuospatial sketchpad

Question 9

Which two types of memories are both considered to be types of declarative memory?

Accepted Answer

A) semantic and episodic 
B) semantic and procedural 
C) episodic and conditioning 
D) procedural and conditioning

Question 10

If one wants to increase the capacity of short-term memory,more items can be held through the process of

Accepted Answer

A) chunking. 
B) decoding. 
C) rote rehearsal. 
D) data compression.

Question 11

Your memories of personal information such as what you wore to work yesterday or what you ate for breakfast this morning are stored in

Accepted Answer

A) procedural memory. 
B) semantic memory. 
C) episodic memory. 
D) nondeclarative memory.

Question 12

Who is most likely to obtain the top score on his or her vocabulary test?

Accepted Answer

A) James,who made flash cards of all his words and is going over and over them. 
B) Cynthia,who has written down each word and definition five times in her notebook. 
C) Ryan,who has drawn a picture to illustrate each word. 
D) Harriet,who says the words and definitions over and over to herself all day long.

Question 13

"Old information inhibits one's ability to remember newer information" defines _________.

Accepted Answer

A) interference 
B) retroactive inhibition 
C) proactive inhibition 
D) suppression

Question 14

Chunking is a means of _______________.

Accepted Answer

A) immediately forgetting irrelevant details 
B) organizing information into meaningful units 
C) arranging details into a hierarchy from most important to least important 
D) storing long-term memories

Question 15

Which of the following systems coordinates attention and the exchange of information among memory storage components?

Accepted Answer

A) Episodic buffer 
B) Central executive 
C) Phonological loop 
D) Visuospatial sketchpad

Question 16

Most normal adults have a memory span:

Accepted Answer

A) of between 5 and 9 items. 
B) that averages 7. 
C) of 7 plus-or-minus 2. 
D) all of the above.

Question 17

Loni is asked to memorize the letters I K T E A L N in no particular order.She memorizes them by reorganizing them into the words INK and LATE.This tactic is called

Accepted Answer

A) cueing. 
B) shadowing. 
C) rote rehearsal. 
D) chunking.

Question 18

Sarah is doing an arithmetic problem,and this component of her memory contains the numbers and the instructions for doing the necessary operations for each step as she goes through the problem.

Accepted Answer

A) serial-position memory 
B) tool-box memory 
C) working memory 
D) episodic memory

Question 19

Ebbinghaus found that information is forgotten

Accepted Answer

A) more rapidly as time goes by. 
B) gradually at first,then with increasing speed. 
C) quickly at first,then tapers off gradually. 
D) most quickly one day after learning.

Question 20

Memories that concern events that are highly significant and are vividly remembered are called _______.

Accepted Answer

A) eidetic images 
B) elaborative rehearsals 
C) flashbulb memories 
D) eyewitness images

Exam 7: Memory