Question 1

Echoic memory is the auditory form of sensory memory, which takes the form of an echo that lasts for up to 4 seconds.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

You are learning a list of items for a test by relating the items to each other and to information that you already have stored in memory. Which type of rehearsal are you using?

Accepted Answer

A)  condensed 
B)  permanent 
C)  maintenance 
D)  elaborative

Question 3

A mnemonist is a person with exceptional memory ability.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Many older adults can vividly recall where they were and what they were doing the day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated, although they cannot remember what they were doing the day before he was assassinated. This is an example of ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  an eidetic image 
B)  a flashbulb memory 
C)  a semantic memory 
D)  a procedural memory

Question 5

Bethany is trying to focus on a conversation across the room during a party she is attending. This is because she thinks she heard her name above the din of the conversation. Her ability to hear her name is due to the mechanism of ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  Broadbent's forgetting theory 
B)  the homecoming queen party phenomenon 
C)  selective attention 
D)  intimacy

Question 6

Loftus and others have found that people constantly update and revise their memories of events, adding information to a memory that occurred later even when that information is in error.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

The BEST place to take your biology exam to ensure good retrieval of biology concepts is in ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  the biology classroom 
B)  an auditorium to prevent cheating 
C)  the English classroom 
D)  the special testing room used for all exams

Question 8

The fleeting images we see as we look out the car window occur in ________ memory.

Accepted Answer

A)  sensory 
B)  short-term 
C)  semantic 
D)  working

Question 9

The hippocampus appears to be responsible for the storage of new long-term memories. If it is removed, the ability to store anything new is completely lost.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

Evidence suggests that procedural memories are stored in the hippocampus, whereas short-term memories are stored in the occipital and temporal lobes of the cortex.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

In the semantic network model of memory, concepts that are related in meaning ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  are not physically proximal 
B)  are archaic 
C)  are stored physically closer to each other than concepts that are not highly related 
D)  are more subject to rapid decay and decline

Question 12

It's Thanksgiving and the whole family has gotten together. You start to reminisce about your childhood and get into an argument with your brother. Both of you claim that you were the innocent victim of the other. This is an example of ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  constructive processing 
B)  hindsight bias 
C)  adaptation of memory traces 
D)  flashbulb integration

Question 13

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 14

The fact that it is easier to recall items at the beginning and end of a list of unrelated items is known as the ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  phi phenomenon 
B)  implicit memory effect 
C)  serial position effect 
D)  sequestering effect

Question 15

Studies have found that the BEST way to overcome the tip-of-the-tongue effect is to ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  try even harder to remember the items 
B)  take a nap 
C)  forget about it and let the item just come to you 
D)  use the serial position effect

Question 16

How do retrieval cues help you to remember?

Accepted Answer

A)  They provide inferences. 
B)  They help chunk information. 
C)  They direct you to relevant information stored in long-term memory. 
D)  They provide numbers for ideas.

Question 17

In the 1950s, George Miller estimated the number of items that could be stored in short-term memory to be the magic number ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  5, plus or minus 4 
B)  7, plus or minus 2 
C)  9, plus or minus 3 
D)  11, plus or minus 1

Question 18

When given a list of items to remember, you are more likely to remember ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  the items in the beginning better than those in the middle or at the end 
B)  the items in the middle more than those at the beginning or at the end 
C)  the items at the end more than those in the middle or at the beginning of the list 
D)  the items at the beginning and at the end more than those in the middle of the list

Question 19

Why did research participants in Sperling's experiment recall so few letters stored in sensory memory?

Accepted Answer

A)  They stopped paying attention after a few stimuli. 
B)  Proactive interference reduced the effectiveness of recall. 
C)  The stress of participating in this research became excessive. 
D)  The remaining stimuli quickly faded from sensory memory.

Question 20

Which technique is most widely used by therapists to help clients recover lost childhood memories?

Accepted Answer

A)  hypnosis 
B)  "truth" serum 
C)  Gestalt therapy 
D)  electroconvulsive therapy

Exam 6: Memory

Echoic memory is the auditory form of sensory memory, which takes the form of an echo that lasts for up to 4 seconds.

You are learning a list of items for a test by relating the items to each other and to information that you already have stored in memory. Which type of rehearsal are you using?

A mnemonist is a person with exceptional memory ability.

Many older adults can vividly recall where they were and what they were doing the day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated, although they cannot remember what they were doing the day before he was assassinated. This is an example of ________.

Bethany is trying to focus on a conversation across the room during a party she is attending. This is because she thinks she heard her name above the din of the conversation. Her ability to hear her name is due to the mechanism of ________.

Loftus and others have found that people constantly update and revise their memories of events, adding information to a memory that occurred later even when that information is in error.

The BEST place to take your biology exam to ensure good retrieval of biology concepts is in ________.

The fleeting images we see as we look out the car window occur in ________ memory.

The hippocampus appears to be responsible for the storage of new long-term memories. If it is removed, the ability to store anything new is completely lost.

Evidence suggests that procedural memories are stored in the hippocampus, whereas short-term memories are stored in the occipital and temporal lobes of the cortex.

In the semantic network model of memory, concepts that are related in meaning ________.

It's Thanksgiving and the whole family has gotten together. You start to reminisce about your childhood and get into an argument with your brother. Both of you claim that you were the innocent victim of the other. This is an example of ________.

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

The fact that it is easier to recall items at the beginning and end of a list of unrelated items is known as the ________.

Studies have found that the BEST way to overcome the tip-of-the-tongue effect is to ________.

How do retrieval cues help you to remember?

In the 1950s, George Miller estimated the number of items that could be stored in short-term memory to be the magic number ________.

When given a list of items to remember, you are more likely to remember ________.

Why did research participants in Sperling's experiment recall so few letters stored in sensory memory?

Which technique is most widely used by therapists to help clients recover lost childhood memories?