Question 1

Eidetic imagery is the technical term for photographic memory.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

When driving in a car,why do stores along the roadside seem familiar?

Accepted Answer

A) Memory enables us to have effortless continuity of experience from one day to another. 
B) Memory enables us to remember the important events of our lives. 
C) Objects that move are more readily encoded. 
D) A keen awareness of one's surroundings has adaptive value.

Question 3

George Miller suggested that four (plus or minus two)was the "magic number" that characterized people's memory performance on random lists of meaningful,familiar items.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

The research on working memory has helped to solidify the belief that short-term memory is not a process,but is a particular place where memories go.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

In a study that is described in the textbook,college students were asked to either perform or imagine performing actions.On a future memory test,what did the researchers find?

Accepted Answer

A) The students sometimes believed that they had performed actions that they had only imagined. 
B) The students remembered performing only bizarre actions. 
C) The students remembered performing only ordinary actions. 
D) The students tended to believe that they had imagined actions they had actually performed.

Question 6

Alzheimer's disease is a biological condition in which memory function gradually breaks down.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

When trying to learn a list of items that will need to be remembered later,a person associates each item with one of a series of rhymes,such as "one is a bun," "two is a shoe","three is a tree" and so on.Which memory technique is being used?

Accepted Answer

A) the method of loci 
B) the peg-word method 
C) metamemory 
D) feelings-of-knowing

Question 8

After conducting many studies in search of the engram,what did Lashley conclude about the engram?

Accepted Answer

A) It is not located in the brain. 
B) It will most likely never be found. 
C) It will be found in certain localized regions of the brain. 
D) It is widely distributed throughout the entire cortex.

Question 9

In his impressive studies of memory,what did Sir Frederic Bartlett discover about participants who were asked to remember stories?

Accepted Answer

A) They were amazingly accurate in their recollections of details. 
B) They were likely to include distortions in their reproductions. 
C) They were more accurate in their story telling when a researcher was present. 
D) They were consistent in maintaining the cultural themes of the original stories.

Question 10

Abby is participating in an experiment in which she has to learn a list of words in a red room and then is tested either in the same red room or in a blue room.What are the investigators most likely studying?

Accepted Answer

A) memory span. 
B) rehearsal. 
C) encoding specificity. 
D) metamemory.

Question 11

Researchers have discovered very high brain activity in the for encoding of episodic information.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Researchers have discovered very high brain activity...

Question 12

Anagrams and word fragment completion tasks are used to assess implicit memory.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

What can be concluded about eyewitnesses' memories from the influential studies carried out by Elizabeth Loftus and her colleagues?

Accepted Answer

A) They are reliable under most circumstances. 
B) They are vulnerable to post-event information. 
C) They are often reliable despite the effects of post-event information. 
D) They are reliable,but only when the witness is motivated.

Question 14

Memories emerge most efficiently when cues received at the time of recall match those present at the time of encoding.This principle is known as .

Accepted Answer

The answer of Memories emerge most efficiently when cues received...

Question 15

Your best friend is always in trouble at home because she does not remember to do her homework,turn in class assignments,or to do the things her mother asked her to do after school.She is always late for school because she constantly forgets to bring what she needs for the day.You have been studying memory in psychology class.What techniques for better encoding and retrieval of information can you share with her?

Accepted Answer

The answer of Your best friend is always in trouble...

Question 16

The phonological loop,visuospatial sketchpad,and central executive are three components of .

Accepted Answer

The answer of The phonological loop,visuospatial sketchpad,and central executive are...

Question 17

Trying to memorize a list of all of the prime ministers of Canada is an example of an implicit use of memory.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

As described in the textbook,researchers recruited college undergraduates for a study based on experience sampling.Participants were asked how challenging they found each task,and the extent to which their minds wandered from the tasks.What did the researchers discover?

Accepted Answer

A) people with lower working memory capacity reported less mind wandering overall. 
B) people with lower working memory capacity could not complete the tasks. 
C) when tasks were challenging,people with higher working memory capacity reported less mind wandering than people with lower working memory capacity. 
D) people with higher working memory capacity were distracted by mind wandering much of the time.

Question 19

Imagine that Lil is fourth in line to give a short speech in class this morning.If the "next-in-line" effect is present,what can be predicted?

Accepted Answer

A) Lil will remember very little about the first speech. 
B) Lil will remember very little about the speech that precedes her speech. 
C) Lil will remember very little about the speeches that follow her speech. 
D) Lil will have equal recollection of the three speeches given while in line that morning.

Question 20

When Mika sees the supermarket cashier while she is in the ticket line at the theater,Mika recognizes her but cannot remember how she know her.To what can this phenomenon most likely be attributed?

Accepted Answer

A) a repressed memory. 
B) the absence of an engram. 
C) encoding specificity. 
D) the existence of a prototype.

Exam 8: A: Memory

Eidetic imagery is the technical term for photographic memory.

When driving in a car,why do stores along the roadside seem familiar?

George Miller suggested that four (plus or minus two)was the "magic number" that characterized people's memory performance on random lists of meaningful,familiar items.

The research on working memory has helped to solidify the belief that short-term memory is not a process,but is a particular place where memories go.

In a study that is described in the textbook,college students were asked to either perform or imagine performing actions.On a future memory test,what did the researchers find?

Alzheimer's disease is a biological condition in which memory function gradually breaks down.

When trying to learn a list of items that will need to be remembered later,a person associates each item with one of a series of rhymes,such as "one is a bun," "two is a shoe","three is a tree" and so on.Which memory technique is being used?

After conducting many studies in search of the engram,what did Lashley conclude about the engram?

In his impressive studies of memory,what did Sir Frederic Bartlett discover about participants who were asked to remember stories?

Abby is participating in an experiment in which she has to learn a list of words in a red room and then is tested either in the same red room or in a blue room.What are the investigators most likely studying?

Researchers have discovered very high brain activity in the for encoding of episodic information.

Anagrams and word fragment completion tasks are used to assess implicit memory.

What can be concluded about eyewitnesses' memories from the influential studies carried out by Elizabeth Loftus and her colleagues?

Memories emerge most efficiently when cues received at the time of recall match those present at the time of encoding.This principle is known as .

The phonological loop,visuospatial sketchpad,and central executive are three components of .

Trying to memorize a list of all of the prime ministers of Canada is an example of an implicit use of memory.

As described in the textbook,researchers recruited college undergraduates for a study based on experience sampling.Participants were asked how challenging they found each task,and the extent to which their minds wandered from the tasks.What did the researchers discover?

Imagine that Lil is fourth in line to give a short speech in class this morning.If the "next-in-line" effect is present,what can be predicted?

When Mika sees the supermarket cashier while she is in the ticket line at the theater,Mika recognizes her but cannot remember how she know her.To what can this phenomenon most likely be attributed?