Question 1

For long-term memories to become permanent and stable over time, they must undergo a physical process called memory consolidation.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Tara gives Patrick directions to her house so he can come to the party tonight. Patrick's ability to recall the directions in the proper order is an example of:

Accepted Answer

A)  serial recall. 
B)  the primacy effect. 
C)  the recency effect. 
D)  imagination inflation.

Question 3

The pioneering research of George Sperling identified the basic features of sensory memory.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

One of the most effective strategies for encoding information into long-term memory is elaborative rehearsal.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

Accepted Answer

A)  Schemas are useful in forming new memories because they allow you to quickly integrate new experiences into your existing knowledge base. 
B)  The information you already have stored in long-term memory can potentially contribute to distortions in forming a new memory. 
C)  Retrieving a memory involves the active process of reconstructing the memory. 
D)  Once a long-term memory has been consolidated, it is impossible to distort it

Question 6

Richard Thompson proposed that memories of simple behaviors were stored in specific locations in the cerebellum.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Identify the psychologist at the forefront of research on memory distortions who is one of the most widely recognized authorities on eyewitness memory.

Accepted Answer

A)  Suzanne Corkin 
B)  Elizabeth Loftus 
C)  Brenda Milner 
D)  Richard Thompson

Question 8

In telling the detective everything she could recall about what happened when she went into the bank to make a deposit, Lynn got to the point that she could not recall any more details. At that point, Lynn was probably experiencing:

Accepted Answer

A)  retroactive interference. 
B)  retrieval cue failure. 
C)  inattentional blindness. 
D)  source amnesia.

Question 9

The _____ is especially prominent when you have to engage in a serial recall task, such as remembering a list of items in their original order.

Accepted Answer

A)  context effect 
B)  misinformation effect 
C)  primacy effect 
D)  recency effect

Question 10

Visual sensory memory only lasts for about half a second, while auditory sensory memory lasts for a few seconds.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

The terms schema and engram mean the same thing.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

According to the working memory model developed by British psychologist Alan Baddeley, the central executive controls attention, integrates information, and manages the activities of the phonological loop and visuospatial sketchpad.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

A cross-cultural study found that the average age of earliest autobiographical memories for Taiwanese and Chinese college students tended to be earlier than the average age of earliest autobiographical memories for European American college students.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Suppression is motivated forgetting that occurs unconsciously and involves a memory that is blocked and unavailable to consciousness.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Which of the following statements about the organization of information in long-term memory is FALSE?

Accepted Answer

A)  People have a strong tendency to actively organize information in long-term memory. 
B)  Different bits of information are logically linked or associated in long-term memory. 
C)  When presented with completely random words that have no obvious similarities or relationships, people recall the words in a purely random order rather than try to organize them in some way. 
D)  Clustering is the tendency to organize items into related groups during recall.

Question 16

Non-REM sleep facilitates consolidation of _____ memories.

Accepted Answer

A)  procedural 
B)  recovered 
C)  declarative 
D)  false

Question 17

We transform information into a form that can be entered and retained by the memory system. This process is known as:

Accepted Answer

A)  encoding. 
B)  retrieval. 
C)  storage. 
D)  prospective remembering.

Question 18

Based on several lines of evidence, today's memory researchers recognize that long-term memory is a simple, singular memory system.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

The "lost-in-the-mall" technique involves:

Accepted Answer

A)  leading participants through an unfamiliar shopping center or mall and then asking them to retrace the path to the starting point. 
B)  secretly moving the participant's car while he or she is shopping in the mall. 
C)  using family members of the participant to help induce a false memory for an event that never occurred, such as being lost in a shopping mall as a child. 
D)  teaching people techniques to avoid leaving personal articles, such as cell phones, wallets, or keys, in public places such as shopping malls.

Question 20

The Culture and Human Behavior box in your text features a study by developmental psychologist Qi Wang, who compared the earliest memories of European American college students to those of Taiwanese and Chinese college students. Wang found that the earliest memories of the Taiwanese and Chinese college students:

Accepted Answer

A)  occurred much later than the memories of European American college students. 
B)  occurred at about the same age as the memories of European American college students. 
C)  occurred much earlier than the memories of European American college students. 
D)  were almost identical in content to European American college students' memories.

Exam 6: Memory

For long-term memories to become permanent and stable over time, they must undergo a physical process called memory consolidation.

Tara gives Patrick directions to her house so he can come to the party tonight. Patrick's ability to recall the directions in the proper order is an example of:

The pioneering research of George Sperling identified the basic features of sensory memory.

One of the most effective strategies for encoding information into long-term memory is elaborative rehearsal.

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

Richard Thompson proposed that memories of simple behaviors were stored in specific locations in the cerebellum.

Identify the psychologist at the forefront of research on memory distortions who is one of the most widely recognized authorities on eyewitness memory.

In telling the detective everything she could recall about what happened when she went into the bank to make a deposit, Lynn got to the point that she could not recall any more details. At that point, Lynn was probably experiencing:

The _____ is especially prominent when you have to engage in a serial recall task, such as remembering a list of items in their original order.

Visual sensory memory only lasts for about half a second, while auditory sensory memory lasts for a few seconds.

The terms schema and engram mean the same thing.

According to the working memory model developed by British psychologist Alan Baddeley, the central executive controls attention, integrates information, and manages the activities of the phonological loop and visuospatial sketchpad.

A cross-cultural study found that the average age of earliest autobiographical memories for Taiwanese and Chinese college students tended to be earlier than the average age of earliest autobiographical memories for European American college students.

Suppression is motivated forgetting that occurs unconsciously and involves a memory that is blocked and unavailable to consciousness.

Which of the following statements about the organization of information in long-term memory is FALSE?

Non-REM sleep facilitates consolidation of _____ memories.

We transform information into a form that can be entered and retained by the memory system. This process is known as:

Based on several lines of evidence, today's memory researchers recognize that long-term memory is a simple, singular memory system.

The "lost-in-the-mall" technique involves: