Question 1

All night,Pedro has been staring at Samantha from across the dance floor.At the end of the night,he finally gets the courage to ask her for her telephone number.His mental repetition of the number on the drive home is one example of

Accepted Answer

A) chunking. 
B) the power of suggestion. 
C) rehearsal. 
D) transference of memory.

Question 2

Terri was mugged one night while she was walking home.Later that same night,a police officer called to tell her that the police had arrested a man wearing a red baseball cap who was found in the are a.Although Terri's mugger was not wearing a hat when she was mugged,she now recalls the hat when she remembers the mugging.This is an example of the:

Accepted Answer

A) levels of processing effect. 
B) imagination inflation effect. 
C) DRM effect. 
D) misinformation effect.

Question 3

Unprocessed stimulation from the environment is first held in:

Accepted Answer

A) short-term store. 
B) sensory memory. 
C) long-term store. 
D) intermediate store.

Question 4

According to the serial-position effect,if you are shown a list of items and then asked to immediately recall them

Accepted Answer

A) you will most easily recall items from the beginning and the middle of the list. 
B) you will most easily recall items from the beginning and the end of the list. 
C) you will most easily recall items from the middle and the end of the list. 
D) retention of any particular item is based on emotional valence,not its position in the list.

Question 5

Which of the following is an example of semantic memory?

Accepted Answer

A) events 
B) concepts 
C) time 
D) place

Question 6

Which of the following is an example of episodic memory?

Accepted Answer

A) words 
B) concepts 
C) symbols 
D) events

Question 7

Which of the following is a major problem with recovered memories?

Accepted Answer

A) All psychologists agree that trauma does not cause memories to be repressed. 
B) Recovery of traumatic memories would have no therapeutic benefit. 
C) The techniques used to recover memories tend to be the same ones used by researchers to create false memories. 
D) No one has ever claimed to have successfully recovered a repressed memory.

Question 8

Latasha remembers visiting Gettysburg on a cloudy day when she was a child.She recalls being bored at the time,but now wishes she had paid more attention.Latasha's memory is an example of a(n )_____ memory.

Accepted Answer

A) episodic 
B) semantic 
C) sensory 
D) nondeclarative

Question 9

Schemas appear to affect which of the following stages of memory?

Accepted Answer

A) Encoding 
B) Storage 
C) Retrieval 
D) All of these stages

Question 10

Following a car accident,Jane and Joan both suffer head injuries with resulting amnesi a.Joan cannot remember events that occurred before the accident,while Jane cannot remember events that occurred after the accident.Joan suffers from __________ amnesia and Jane from __________ amnesia

Accepted Answer

A) anterograde; retrograde 
B) retrograde; anterograde 
C) proactive; retroactive 
D) retroactive; proactive

Question 11

What we are thinking of at any given moment,or what we commonly know as "consciousness," is ____________.

Accepted Answer

A) long-term memory 
B) short-term memory 
C) secondary memory 
D) cognitive dissonance

Question 12

On the first day of class,Sheila asked her professor the best way to learn and remember the material for the course.The professor responded,"Focus on identifying and understanding the meaning of the important terms and concepts." The instructor is advocating a ___________ level of processing.

Accepted Answer

A) shallow 
B) maintenance 
C) deep 
D) visual

Question 13

Scott remembers all of the details of his wedding seven years ago.This information is most likely stored in _______ memory.

Accepted Answer

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

Question 14

What is the system or process by which the products or results of learning are stored for future use?

Accepted Answer

A) cognition 
B) memory 
C) perception 
D) sensation

Question 15

When Rip Van Winkle returns to his native village,after 20 years of sleeping in the mountains,he goes immediately to the location of his former house and asks for his wife and children by name.The kind of memory that he is exhibiting is _______.

Accepted Answer

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

Question 16

Because classical conditioning can occur without a person's knowledge,it can be considered one type of ____________ memory.

Accepted Answer

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

Question 17

One study had participants view tapes of dental surgery after studying a word list.This study concluded that:

Accepted Answer

A) emotional videos have no effect on memory. 
B) emotional videos can enhance memory,but only for material related to the video itself. 
C) emotional videos can enhance memory even for unrelated material. 
D) emotional videos can enhance memory for related material,while reducing memory for unrelated material.

Question 18

Chunking aids:

Accepted Answer

A) understanding. 
B) perception. 
C) retention. 
D) encoding.

Question 19

Long-term memory is sometimes unreliable because of _______ of information.

Accepted Answer

A) reconstruction 
B) retention 
C) coding 
D) chunking

Question 20

Billy has just returned home from visiting his grandparents.His grandfather always had a jar of jelly beans on the table,and his mother asked Billy about the jar."Sure," says Billy,"it was right there where it always was." Billy's mother knew that the jar was gone.The grandfather had recently been diagnosed with diabetes and had cut down on his sugar intake.Why did Billy remember seeing the jar of jelly beans?

Accepted Answer

A) he probably has a damaged hippocampus 
B) he was using the representativeness heuristic 
C) he had repressed the memory of his trip 
D) he reconstructed his memory using new and old information

Exam 7: Memory