Chapter Test 2 Memory

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Question #1

For the scenario below, select the most likely cause of the forgetting: Failing to recall the name of a famous actress that you’ve seen in many movies and are a fan of, even though you’re sure you know her name

A failure of retrieval

B encoding failure

C infantile amnesia

D motivated forgetting

E interference

Question #2

For the scenario below, select the most likely cause of the forgetting: Deliberately trying to forget a scary car accident

A encoding failure

B interference

C failure of retrieval

D motivated forgetting

E infantile amnesia

Question #3

For the scenario below, select the most likely cause of the forgetting: Forgetting what your uncle said at dinner because you weren’t paying attention

A failure of retrieval

B infantile amnesia

C motivated forgetting

D encoding failure

E interference

Question #4

For the scenario below, select the most likely cause of the forgetting: Recalling how you learned to speak for the first time

A failure of retrieval

B encoding failure

C interference

D motivated forgetting

E infantile amnesia

Question #5

For the scenario below, select the most likely cause of the forgetting: Parking your car on Monday gets in the way of remembering where you parked your car on Tuesday.

A infantile amnesia

B encoding failure

C interference

D motivated forgetting

E failure of retrieval

Question #6

In a free-recall task, the recency effect refers to an increased recall of items from the _______ part of the list. The explanation for this increase is that these items are more likely to be in _______ memory when it is time to recall the list.

A initial / long-term

B initial / working

C final / long-term

D final / working

Question #7

Parents in North America spend more time speaking with their children about past events in their lives (both those that are recent and more distant) than do parents in some other cultures. This is thought to be the reason why children of North American parents retrieve more childhood memories as well memories from earlier in their lives. This is an example of what principle?

A Social collaboration in memory

B The reminescence bump in memory

C Biological inhereitance of memories

D Long-term potentiation of memory

Question #8

What does Ebbinghaus’s forgetting curve demonstrate about forgetting?

A Forgetting does not happen for very emotional information.

B Forgetting occurs at a similar rate across time.

C Forgetting is a very slow process that only happens over years.

D Forgetting occurs very rapidly at first, but levels off over time.

Question #9

Red decides that he should study for 30 minutes every day for two weeks before his exam. Which study strategy is Red using?

A testing himself

B spacing

C cramming

D concept mapping

Question #10

What is an example of recognition memory?

A drawing a picture of a house you saw on vacation once

B being able to give directions to a stranger from memory

C knowing the name of your friend without being reminded

D choosing a correct answer on a multiple-choice test

Question #11

Activity in the ________ helps both to signal the importance of emotional events and to consolidate memories of them. However, those memories are created by activity in the __________.

A hippocampus / thalamus

B amygdala / hippocampus

C basal ganglia / amydala

D amygdala / hypothalamus

Question #12

If someone cannot remember their first drum lesson, but they can play the drums, they have a problem with ________ memory, but their ________ memory is intact.

A episodic; procedural

B semantic; priming

C procedural; episodic

D priming; semantic

Question #13

________ is a process that plays a critical role in creating a long-lasting memory, whereas ________ occurs when that memory is brought back to mind in a new context.

A Consolidation; encoding

B Encoding; consolidation

C Consolidation; reconsolidation

D Reconsolidation; consolidation

Question #14

Ruth was in an automobile accident and is suffering from mild retrograde amnesia. What would you expect Ruth to have the most trouble remembering?

A how to play the violin

B the name of her long-time, next-door neighbor

C events from just before and during the accident

D the name of the new doctor currently treating her

Question #15

If your friend says a phone number aloud over and over until they can dial it, they are using ________ to maintain information in ________ memory.

A rehearsal / working

B rehearsal / sensory

C chunking / working

D chunking / long-term

Question #16

Which of the following statements about sensory memory is INCORRECT?

A Information in echoic memory lasts longer than information in iconic memory

B Echoic memory can be used to recover the meaning of an utterance to which you initially did not attend

C Sensory memories are supported by neural persistance

D You can make an iconic image last indefinitely by closing your eyes and concentrating

Question #17

Based on levels of processing, which of the following examples shows a student who is using the most effective study aid to remember information for an exam?

A Acacia thinks about the meaning of key terms in the textbook.

B Nick reads his notes several times over.

C Julia thinks about how the study of emotions relates to her own life.

D Pat makes a rhyming rap to help her remember the cranial nerves.

Question #18

Willy has a dream about going to Universal Studios. Later he misremembers that he actually went there. What is the process that most likely failed and led to his memory error?

A misinformation monitoring

B dream monitoring

C imagination monitoring

D reality monitoring

Question #19

Your textbook describes a study in which participants were shown an ambiguous image and were either told they were looking at a pair of glasses or a barbell. Later, they were asked to draw the image they had seen from memory, and the pictures drawn were not ambiguous. The point of this study was to illustrate

A memories are not stable, they can be revised.

B the retroactive function of memory.

C the predictive function of memory.

D the constructive nature of memory.

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