Question 1

Research on memory construction indicates that memories of past experiences are likely to be

Accepted Answer

A)  difficult to retrieve but never completely lost. 
B)  distorted by our current expectations. 
C)  much easier to recall if they are seldom rehearsed. 
D)  retrieved in the very same form and detail as they were originally encoded.

Question 2

The inability to remember whose face appears on a five-dollar bill is mostly likely due to a failure in

Accepted Answer

A)  retrieval. 
B)  storage. 
C)  encoding. 
D)  implicit memory.

Question 3

The inability to retrieve information from one's past is called

Accepted Answer

A)  retrograde amnesia. 
B)  anterograde amnesia. 
C)  storage decay. 
D)  proactive interference.

Question 4

After suffering a brain injury in a motorcycle accident,Arotza cannot form new memories.He can,however,remember events before the accident.Arotza's memory difficulty most clearly illustrates

Accepted Answer

A)  retroactive interference. 
B)  the misinformation effect. 
C)  anterograde amnesia. 
D)  proactive interference.

Question 5

After absorbing the false suggestion that as children they became ill after eating spoiled egg salad,Dutch university students were less likely to eat egg salad sandwiches.Their behavior best illustrates the impact of

Accepted Answer

A)  the misinformation effect. 
B)  anterograde amnesia. 
C)  proactive interference. 
D)  repressed memories.

Question 6

Who emphasized that we repress anxiety-arousing memories?

Accepted Answer

A)  Hermann Ebbinghaus 
B)  Elizabeth Loftus 
C)  Karl Dallenbach 
D)  Sigmund Freud

Question 7

An inability to access information in long-term memory is known as

Accepted Answer

A)  the misinformation effect. 
B)  anterograde amnesia. 
C)  déjà vu. 
D)  retrieval failure.

Question 8

While wandering through the streets of a foreign city for the first time,Maurice experienced a strange sense of familiarity with the city's landmarks as if he had been in this exact location before.His experience best illustrates

Accepted Answer

A)  anterograde amnesia. 
B)  proactive interference. 
C)  positive transfer. 
D)  déjà vu.

Question 9

Memory reconsolidation involves the modification of stored memories during the process of

Accepted Answer

A)  déjà vu. 
B)  repression. 
C)  retrieval. 
D)  source amnesia.

Question 10

The misinformation effect best illustrates the dynamics of

Accepted Answer

A)  memory construction. 
B)  repression. 
C)  proactive interference. 
D)  anterograde amnesia.

Question 11

When asked how they felt 10 years ago regarding marijuana issues,people recalled attitudes closer to their current views than to those they actually reported a decade earlier.This best illustrates

Accepted Answer

A)  memory construction. 
B)  proactive interference. 
C)  anterograde amnesia. 
D)  positive transfer.

Question 12

It's evening and we're mentally replaying the day's events.We picture our facial expressions as we listened to a friend's tale of woe.Because we were unable to see these expressions at the time,our recall illustrates

Accepted Answer

A)  source amnesia. 
B)  implicit memory. 
C)  memory construction. 
D)  proactive interference.

Question 13

Source amnesia helps to explain

Accepted Answer

A)  déjà vu. 
B)  sensory memory. 
C)  proactive interference. 
D)  implicit memory.

Question 14

Answering practice test questions about text material you have studied is a useful strategy for

Accepted Answer

A)  automatically processing complex information. 
B)  facilitating the development of implicit memory. 
C)  inhibiting infantile amnesia. 
D)  becoming aware of what you do not yet know.

Question 15

After learning the combination for his new locker at school,Milton is unable to remember the combination for his year-old bicycle lock.Milton is experiencing the effects of

Accepted Answer

A)  source amnesia. 
B)  retroactive interference. 
C)  proactive interference. 
D)  automatic processing.

Question 16

Following a brain injury from a brutal knife attack,Mike is unable to consciously recall or recognize what a knife is.But he still shows a conditioned fear response to the sight of a knife.His conditioned reaction best indicates that he retains a(n)________ memory.

Accepted Answer

A)  sensory 
B)  repressed 
C)  working 
D)  implicit

Question 17

While talking with a complete stranger she had just met in an airplane terminal,Jillian experienced an eerie sense of having had the same conversation with this same person before.Her experience best illustrates

Accepted Answer

A)  déjà vu. 
B)  anterograde amnesia. 
C)  positive transfer. 
D)  retroactive interference.

Question 18

After reading a newspaper report suggesting that drunken driving might have contributed to a recent auto accident,several people who actually witnessed the accident began to remember the driver involved as traveling more recklessly than was actually the case.This provides an example of

Accepted Answer

A)  proactive interference. 
B)  déjà vu. 
C)  automatic processing. 
D)  the misinformation effect.

Question 19

By incorporating errors based on a hypnotist's leading questions,"hyponotically refreshed" memories often illustrate

Accepted Answer

A)  repression. 
B)  anterograde amnesia. 
C)  the misinformation effect. 
D)  proactive interference.

Question 20

People should avoid back-to-back study times for learning Spanish and French vocabulary in order to minimize

Accepted Answer

A)  déjà vu. 
B)  mnemonics. 
C)  implicit memory. 
D)  interference.

Exam 25: Encoding: Getting Information In