Question 1

Igor has not been skiing in 10 years.However,when he gets on his skis,his body remembers exactly how to ski.The kind of memory that makes it possible for him to remember how to ski is

Accepted Answer

A)  explicit. 
B)  episodic. 
C)  procedural. 
D)  semantic.

Question 2

Which of the following is a type of implicit memory?

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

Question 3

Your roommate asks you which section of chemistry you are taking next semester.You have just registered for the class,and confidently turn to tell her the section.You are astonished to realize that you suddenly cannot remember which section you registered for.Your memory lapse is an example of

Accepted Answer

A)  change blindness. 
B)  suggestibility. 
C)  blocking. 
D)  absentmindedness.

Question 4

Explain the relationship between short-term storage and working memory.How does working memory influence the duration and capacity of short-term storage?

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Question 5

Describe the primacy and recency effects.Which effect provides support for short-term storage? Explain why.Which effect provides support for long-term storage? Explain why.

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Question 6

You are paying close attention to the basketball game on the TV.Suddenly,you are distracted by your roommate talking to someone on the phone about the upcoming psychology exam in the class you both take.This conversation most likely captured your attention because it

Accepted Answer

A)  required fewer mental processes. 
B)  was loud. 
C)  was personally important. 
D)  did not require shadowing.

Question 7

The increased ability to retrieve memories that occurs when the internal states during encoding and the internal states during recall match is called

Accepted Answer

A)  context-dependent memory. 
B)  state-dependent memory. 
C)  proactive interference. 
D)  retroactive interference.

Question 8

Jonathan was in a motorcycle accident and sustained an injury to his hippocampus.He now has anterograde amnesia,which means that he has difficulty

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A)  remembering familiar people's names. 
B)  recovering semantic memories. 
C)  remembering events from his childhood. 
D)  forming new memories.

Question 9

If the Wicked Witch of the West flew down and struck you with retrograde amnesia,you would be ________ to remember anything from before the incident and ________ to form new memories.

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A)  able; able 
B)  able; unable 
C)  unable; able 
D)  unable; unable

Question 10

Your friend starts talking about a new puppy that she just rescued.This discussion activates your knowledge about dogs.Since this knowledge is maintained in long-term storage in a network of associations,when you hear about her new puppy

Accepted Answer

A)  all words associated with "pet" will be activated equally. 
B)  all words associated with "dog" will be activated equally. 
C)  words highly associated with "pet" will be activated first. 
D)  words highly associated with "dog" will be activated first.

Question 11

Every day Manuel buys coffee from the same woman on the way to work.Even though he always sees her,when a friend asks,he cannot remember the color of her hair.Manual most likely experienced a problem in the ________ process of memory.

Accepted Answer

A)  storage 
B)  encoding 
C)  retrieval 
D)  attention

Question 12

You are working on a crossword puzzle.Even though you know the answer to a question,you cannot remember the actual word.You remember the shape of the word,the first letter of the word,and other related words and ideas,but cannot remember the word itself.You are experiencing

Accepted Answer

A)  suggestibility. 
B)  change blindness. 
C)  the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon. 
D)  absentmindedness.

Question 13

In a memory experiment,Group A is asked to listen to a list of words.Group B is asked to count the number of e's in the words.Group C is asked to use each word in a sentence.According to the levels of processing model,what will the results of the experiment be?

Accepted Answer

A)  Group A will remember more words. 
B)  Group B will remember more words. 
C)  Group C will remember more words. 
D)  All groups will remember the same amount of words.

Question 14

Prospective memory limits the cognitive resources available for other tasks because it

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A)  reduces the number of items we can maintain in short-term storage. 
B)  interferes with information retrieval from long-term storage. 
C)  disrupts the encoding process in short-term storage. 
D)  interrupts information processing in sensory storage.

Question 15

According to the idea that information is held in long-term storage in networks of associations,each specific piece of information in memory is located in

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A)  nodes. 
B)  schemas. 
C)  associations. 
D)  features.

Question 16

Describe the two types of explicit memory.Give a real-life example of each type of explicit memory.

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Question 17

Alex sees a girl in a red shirt steal a candy bar.Later,during questioning,the police ask what candy the girl in the blue shirt stole.Months later,when Alex testifies in court,he describes the girl as having worn a blue shirt.This is an example of

Accepted Answer

A)  suggestibility. 
B)  blocking. 
C)  cryptomnesia. 
D)  absentmindedness.

Question 18

At Starbucks,a cup of coffee costs $2.82.To use exact change,you must hold the number 2.82 in your head while sorting through your wallet and calculating what coins you have.To be successful in actively processing this information,you must keep the information maintained in short-term storage by using your

Accepted Answer

A)  working memory. 
B)  sensory storage. 
C)  semantic memory. 
D)  long-term storage.

Question 19

Nora and Miles are studying for an exam.Nora makes flash cards to memorize new terms and repeatedly reads them to herself.Miles links new terms to the ones he already knows based on their meanings.Nora is using ________ and Miles is using ________ to learn the terms.

Accepted Answer

A)  maintenance rehearsal; elaborative rehearsal 
B)  elaborative rehearsal; maintenance rehearsal 
C)  procedural memory; semantic memory 
D)  semantic memory; procedural memory

Question 20

If you can remember exactly what you did yesterday but have trouble remembering the names of all 50 states,then you have excellent ________ memory but may have poor ________ memory.

Accepted Answer

A)  episodic; semantic 
B)  semantic; episodic 
C)  procedural; explicit 
D)  explicit; procedural

Exam 7: Memory