Question 1

Patients with anterograde amnesia were taught to solve the Tower of Hanoi problem.It was later found that they _______________.

Accepted Answer

A)  remembered solving the problem and could do so again
B)  didn't remember the problem and couldn't solve it
C)  remembered solving the problem but couldn't do it again
D)  didn't remember solving the problem but could do it again D

Question 2

In one study,over 2,500 photographs were shown to participants,one every 10 seconds.Participants were then shown pairs of photographs in which one member of each pair was one of the previously seen photographs.Accuracy for identifying the previously seen photos was __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  10 to 20 percent
B)  50 to 60 percent
C)  70 to 80 percent
D)  85 to 95 percent D

Question 3

Jamal is trying to buy something over the phone.He asks his partner to read him his credit card number.However,when he tries to repeat it to the sales clerk on the other end of the line,he can't remember all the numbers.Jamal is coming up against ______.

Accepted Answer

A)  the decay of numerical memory
B)  the extinction of auditory traces
C)  George Miller's magic number 7,plus or minus 2
D)  the limits of procedural memory C

Question 4

Short-term memories appear to be localized in the _________________.

Accepted Answer

A)  occipital lobe
B)  cingulate gyrus
C)  amygdala
D)  prefrontal lobes

Question 5

Many middle-aged 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 6

When given a list of items to remember,people tend to do better at recalling the first items on the list than the middle of the list.This is known as the ______.

Accepted Answer

A)  phi phenomenon
B)  recency effect
C)  chunking effect
D)  primacy effect

Question 7

Which model of memory proposes that the deeper a person processes information,the better it will be remembered?

Accepted Answer

A)  levels-of-processing model
B)  parallel distributed processing model
C)  information-processing model
D)  three stage

Question 8

Declarative memory can be divided into short-term memory and working memory.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

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)  All of these are true

Question 10

Believers in the information-processing model of memory are likely to agree that ____________.

Accepted Answer

A)  the brain has nothing in common with a computer
B)  studying computers can give you useful insights into human information processing
C)  auditory information is retained in the sensory register for up to 2 seconds
D)  information flows from one memory system to the next

Question 11

Memory is defined as an active system that consists of three processes.They are ______________.

Accepted Answer

A)  receiving information from the senses,organizing and storing the information,and retrieving the information from storage
B)  the unconditioned stimulus,the conditioned stimulus,and the conditioned response
C)  bottom-up processing,selective attention,and top-down processing
D)  acquisition,extinction,and spontaneous recovery

Question 12

Jessica took psychology in the fall semester and is now taking sociology.Several of the concepts are similar,and Jessica finds that she sometimes has trouble recalling some of the major psychological theorists.She keeps getting them confused with sociological theorists.Jessica's problem is most likely due to _______________.

Accepted Answer

A)  decoding failure
B)  retroactive interference
C)  proactive interference
D)  Toronto syndrome

Question 13

A.R.Luria studied an individual with phenomenal memory.This person was a ____________.

Accepted Answer

A)  gestaltiker
B)  hypnotist
C)  child prodigy
D)  mnemonist

Question 14

Long-term memory is thought to be organized in the form of ___________.

Accepted Answer

A)  semantic networks or nodes of related information spreading out from a central piece of knowledge
B)  conditioned responses and associations
C)  alphabetical lists of semantic concepts,time-based lists of life events,body-part-specific motor skills
D)  none of these

Question 15

Which memory system provides us with a very brief representation of all the stimuli present at a particular moment?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 16

______________ 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)  The cerebellum
B)  The prefrontal and temporal lobes of the cortex
C)  The hippocampus
D)  The amygdala

Question 17

According to the semantic network model,it would take less time to answer "true" to which sentence?

Accepted Answer

A)  "A salmon is an animal."
B)  "A salmon is a fish."
C)  "A canary is an animal."
D)  All of these would take the same time.

Question 18

Loni is asked to memorize the letters I K T E A L N in no particular order.She memorizes them by reorganizing them into the words INK and LATE.This tactic is called ______.

Accepted Answer

A)  cueing
B)  shadowing
C)  rote rehearsal
D)  chunking

Question 19

A police officer is shot in a gun battle with bank robbers.Although emergency brain surgery saves his life,it leaves him unable to store new information.The officer's family is applying to the state for compensation for his injuries.When asked to provide a diagnosis of the difficulties he suffers,what will they write?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 20

Short-term memory is where information is held before conscious use of the material and is unlimited in capacity.

Accepted Answer