Question 1

The capacity of STM is _______ items.

Accepted Answer

A) unlimited 
B) 7 +or - 2 
C) 12 
D) 22

Question 2

Which of the following statements concerned with sensory memory is true?

Accepted Answer

A) Sensory memory affects both vision and hearing. 
B) Sensory memory affects only vision. 
C) Sensory memory affects only touch. 
D) Sensory memory affects only hearing.

Question 3

The auditory equivalent of the icon is the ____________.

Accepted Answer

A) echo 
B) vibration 
C) sound wave 
D) neural trace

Question 4

"Forgetting that occurs as a function of the passage of time" defines ________.

Accepted Answer

A) motivated forgetting 
B) decay theory 
C) cue-dependent forgetting 
D) interference theory

Question 5

Last week Lisa took an abnormal psychology test and did not miss a question.However,when a guest speaker came to class a week later to talk about schizophrenia,she had trouble remembering some of the relevant class material.She remembered even less about the topic when she saw a news report on schizophrenia a month later.What memory phenomenon explains what Lisa is experiencing?

Accepted Answer

A) mirage effect 
B) serial position curve 
C) free recall curve 
D) curve of forgetting

Question 6

Connie lost her keys.She searches her memory for when she last had them,and goes to that place in the hope that it will help her remember where she misplaced them.Connie is ________ activating her _________.

Accepted Answer

A) unconsciously;semantic memory 
B) conscious;semantic memory 
C) unconsciously;episodic memory 
D) consciously;episodic memory

Question 7

Korsakoff syndrome is caused by chronic alcohol abuse and damages the _______ in the brain.

Accepted Answer

A) hypothalamus 
B) pituitary gland 
C) pineal gland 
D) none of the above

Question 8

Information selected from sensory memory is transferred to conscious awareness or:

Accepted Answer

A) primary memory. 
B) short-term memory. 
C) factual memory. 
D) long-term memory.

Question 9

The working memory is known as the _____________ memory.

Accepted Answer

A) tertiary 
B) primary 
C) short-term 
D) long-term

Question 10

You looked up a friend's address for a letter you wrote.Suddenly the phone rings-wrong number.Even though you were interrupted for only a few seconds,you've forgotten the address.Which memory system failed you?

Accepted Answer

A) permanent memory 
B) long-term memory 
C) sensory memory 
D) short-term memory

Question 11

Your street address,telephone number,and social security number are stored in:

Accepted Answer

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

Question 12

The process by which we notice stimuli selectively is called:

Accepted Answer

A) attention. 
B) recognition. 
C) saving. 
D) recalling.

Question 13

The short-term memory capacity (digit-span)in a normal adult is about:

Accepted Answer

A) 9 items. 
B) 7 or 8 items. 
C) 4 or 5 items. 
D) 14 or 15 items.

Question 14

Which of the following is NOT true of eidetic imagery?

Accepted Answer

A) It is much more common in children than in adults. 
B) It seems to vary from person to person. 
C) Children with eidetic imagery outperform other children on tests of memory. 
D) Some people can produce eidetic images of three-dimensional objects.

Question 15

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 16

Which of the following is an example of semantic memory?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 17

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 18

Someone a short distance away,to whom we have been paying no attention,quietly speaks your name,and suddenly you are attending to that conversation.This is an example of ____________.

Accepted Answer

A) Broadbent's filter theory 
B) shadowing 
C) the cocktail party phenomenon 
D) cue-controlled inhibition

Question 19

A system that allows people to retain information over time is called:

Accepted Answer

A) memory. 
B) cognition. 
C) computer. 
D) intelligence.

Question 20

The portion of long-term memory that stores specific information that has personal meaning is called __________ memory.

Accepted Answer

A) emotional 
B) episodic 
C) semantic 
D) procedural

Exam 6: Memory