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What are the two components of artificial memory, according to Ad Herennium?
A) images and places B) mnemonics and images C) places and encodings D) topography and mnemonics |
A) images and places |
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How did Ed Cooke suggest to Joshua Foer that he make the word "e-mail" concrete?
A) imagine typing an email on a computer B) imagine a nude woman reading an email C) imagine a mail box with a large E on it D) imagine a she-male sending an email |
D) imagine a she-male sending an email |
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What is the point of memory techniques?
A) to exercise our memories so that they are more fit B) to allow us the hyperfocus on the material we are trying to learn C) to transform memories into forms that we easily can remember D) to create new synaptic connections between neurons in our cortices |
C) to transform memories into forms that we easily can remember |
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Long ago, which of the following were NOT considered centerpieces of the classical education in the language arts?
A) memory B) grammar C) composition D) rhetoric |
C) composition |
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What is the Latin term for word-for-word memory?
A) memoria rerum B) memoria verborum C) topos D) ad herrenium |
B) memoria verborum |
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Metrodorus of Scepsis devised a system to see the unseeable as an aid in memorizing. His shorthand system contributed ways to image all of the following except _______________.
A) conjunctions B) adjectives C) articles D) syntactical connectors |
B) adjectives |
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What do actors call the units that they break their lines into?
A) chunks B) acts C) scenes D) beats |
D) beats |
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According to Socrates, which Egyptian god was the inventor of writing?
A) Thamus B) Theuth C) Phaedrus D) Xenophon |
B) Theuth |
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Who invented punctuation marks?
A) Pyrrhus, the Greek general B) St. Augustine, the Christian theologian C) Socrates, the Greek philosopher D) Aristophanes, the director of the Library of Alexandria |
D) Aristophanes, the director of the Library of Alexandria |
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Which of the following was not a characteristic of scriptio continua?
A) words were not separated by spaces B) capital letters and lower case letters were intermixed C) there was no punctuation D) each letter signified a sound |
B) capital letters and lower case letters were intermixed |
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When did silent reading become common?
A) second century B.C. B) fourth century A.D. C) ninth century A.D. D) twelfth century A.D. |
C) ninth century A.D. |
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What was the form of written texts in the time of Socrates?
A) clay tablets B) wax tablets C) scrolls D) books |
C) scrolls |
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What was the title of a fifteenth-century Italian book on memory training?
A) Da Romano B) Phaedrus C) Scriptio Continua D) Phoenix |
D) Phoenix |
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Who tried to build a real wooden building that would be a "Theater of Memory"?
A) King Francis I of France B) Giulio Camillo C) Titian D) Giordano Bruno |
B) Giulio Camillo |
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Who wrote Physiological Memory: The Instantaneous Art of Never Forgetting?
A) Professor Alphonse Loisette B) G. S. Fellows C) Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) D) Campo dei Fiori |
A) Professor Alphonse Loisette |
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What is lifelogging?
A) archiving all of one's life in an external memory B) writing a detailed history of one's life C) keeping track of the number of people alive at any instant in history D) one of the many memory techniques introduced by Mark Twain |
A) archiving all of one's life in an external memory |
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What is the term for the feeling of already having experienced an event?
A) aphasia B) dream reenactment C) deja vu D) dissociation |
C) deja vu |
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What is the term used by psychologists for the linking process of gluing together the various components of an experience into an unitary whole?
A) source confusion B) memory binding C) confabulation D) information confounding |
B) memory binding |
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What is the type of misattribution that can result in combining two words, such as spaniel and varnish, into Spanish?
A) memory conjunction error B) interweaving stimuli effect C) cryptomnesia D) deja vu |
A) memory conjunction error |
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What explanation did Schacter give for the improved performance on the DRM paradigm when pictures of each of the words in the list were shown?
A) representativeness heuristic B) word-superiority effect C) availability effect D) distinctiveness heuristic |
D) distinctiveness heuristic |
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What is cryptomnesia?
A) loss of memory for writing B) amnesia for faces C) inadvertent plagiarism D) inability to remember words |
C) inadvertent plagiarism |
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Ten months after the event, what percentage of the participants in a Dutch study falsely remembered watching tapes of a cargo plane crashing into an apartment building?
A) 10 B) 35 C) 55 D) 75 |
C) 55 |
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When Alan Alda falsely remembered some scenes from the picnic after viewing photographs, he experienced the sin of ______________.
A) persistence B) suggestibility C) blocking D) absent-mindedness |
B) suggestibility |
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When participants viewed a security video of a man entering a store, then were asked to identify him from photos, in what was were those who received confirming feedback NOT different from those who received disconfirming or no feedback?
A) they claimed higher confidence and trust in their memories B) they claimed that they saw a weapon C) they claimed a better view and clearer recollection of the man D) they claimed heightened recall of facial details |
B) they claimed that they saw a weapon |
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How was the critical information that led to the identification of the criminals that perpetrated the Chowchilla school bus kidnapping obtained?
A) through hypnosis B) through mental time travel C) using a lie-detector test D) by administering truth serum |
A) through hypnosis |
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According to Hyman, what is the part of our cognition that is the culprit in suggested memories?
A) repression B) memory conjunction C) overgeneralized memories D) visual imagery |
D) visual imagery |
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Which of these is NOT true of the Fells Acres children, who made accusations of horrible abuse?
A) some of them had reported the events to their parents B) initially all denied being abused when questioned C) abuse reports emerged after questioning D) no physical evidence of the events was found |
A) some of them had reported the events to their parents |
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In the twenty-year longitudinal study of wives' feelings about marriage by Kearney and Coombs, when wives reflected back over their first ten years of marriage, what type of bias did they show?
A) consistency B) egocentric C) change D) hindsight |
C) change |
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Remembering our own past triggers a variety of processes which may distort memory. Which of the following is not related to egocentric memory biases?
A) deprecating past selves B) selective recall C) telescoping effect D) exaggerating past difficulties |
C) telescoping effect |
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Which of the memory biases show how our theories about ourselves can lead us to reconstruct the past to be overly similar or different from the present?
A) consistency and change B) hindsight C) egocentric D) stereotypical |
A) consistency and change |
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Which of the memory biases reveal that recollections of past events are filtered by current knowledge?
A) consistency and change B) hindsight C) egocentric D) stereotypical |
B) hindsight |
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Which of the memory biases illustrate the powerful role of the self in orchestrating perceptions and memories of reality?
A) consistency and change B) hindsight C) egocentric D) stereotypical |
C) egocentric |
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Which of the memory biases demonstrate how generic memories shape interpretation of the world, even when we are unaware of their existence or influence?
A) consistency and change B) hindsight C) egocentric D) stereotypical |
D) stereotypical |
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When patients who experience chronic pain are experiencing high levels of pain in the present, they are biased to recall similarly high levels of pain in the past. What bias does this illustrate?
A) consistency B) hindsight C) egocentric D) stereotypical |
A) consistency |
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When students complete a program designed to enhance their study skills and are asked to remember their initial level of skill, they tend to report it as being lower that they had said before they began the program. What memory bias does this illustrate?
A) consistency B) change C) egocentric D) stereotypical |
B) change |
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What is the term for the psychological discomfort that results from conflicting thoughts and feelings?
A) hindsight bias B) buyer's remorse C) cognitive dissonance D) adaptive bias |
C) cognitive dissonance |
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When a Lakers fan thought at the beginning of the playoffs in 2011 that the Lakers would win the playoffs for a three-peat, then after the playoffs said that she had expected them to be eliminated in the second round of the playoffs, she is showing __________________________.
A) change bias B) consistency bias C) stereotypical bias D) hindsight bias |
D) hindsight bias |
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The song "I Remember It Well" illustrates ________________________.
A) egocentric bias B) change bias C) hindsight bias D) consistency bias |
A) egocentric bias |
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When college students attempt to remember high school grades, they are much more accurate in remembering grades of A than grades of D. This reflects __________________ .
A) hindsight bias B) cognitive dissonance C) change bias D) egocentric bias |
D) egocentric bias |
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Remembering our own past triggers a variety of processes which may distort memory. Which of the following is not related to egocentric memory biases?
A) deprecating past selves B) selective recall C) telescoping effect D) exaggerating past difficulties |
A) deprecating past selves |
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When a bystander to a crime has a weak memory for the face of the criminal but a strong memory for the gun he was holding, it is an example of ________________.
A) facial feature blending B) weapon focus C) distinctiveness heuristic D) cryptomnesia |
B) weapon focus |
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Generating alternative scenarios of what might have been or should have been is _________________________.
A) counterfactual thinking B) daydreaming C) magical hallucinations D) social ascription |
A) counterfactual thinking |
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In the video on Ronald Cotton, we saw that Jennifer Thompson's error misattribution was reinforced when she was told that the man she chose in the physical lineup was the same man in the photo lineup. Which of the following was suggested to eliminate this reinforcement?
A) Present the photos and individuals simultaneously. B) Have an independent person who doesn't know who the suspect is administer the lineups. C) Make sure that the eyewitness spends equally long studying the individuals in the physical lineup as they do in the photo lineup. D) All of the above. |
B) Have an independent person who doesn't know who the suspect is administer the lineups. |
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You are selected to serve on a jury for a case where a man is being convicted of stealing the UCI mascot and throwing it into a pit filled with countless fire ants. Because you have taken Psych 46A, you know that before accepting eyewitness testimony as truth, we should remember that _____________.
A) Eyewitness testimony is frequently unreliable and very persuasive to jurors. B) Eyewitness testimony alone is the best tool the justice system has for determining an individual's innocence or guilt. C) Memory functions like a videotape and we need to assess if the eyewitness can accurately “replay” the scene in their mind before we accept their testimony. D) Although memory can be malleable, witnessing traumatic events produces precise memories of the scene |
A) Eyewitness testimony is frequently unreliable and very persuasive to jurors. |
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Which of the following factors was NOT suggested as contributing to Jennifer Thompson mistakenly identifying Ronald Cotton as her attacker?
A) During the photo lineup the pictures were presented sequentially rather than simultaneously. B) The police officers present provided reinforcing feedback when Jennifer picked Ronald out of a lineup. C) Bobby Pool looked a lot like Ronald Cotton. D) The police officers involved were convinced they had arrested the right man. |
A) During the photo lineup the pictures were presented sequentially rather than simultaneously. |
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According to the theory of unconscious transference, Joe is likely to incorrectly identify a person in police lineup as being the culprit of a crime when:
A) the person happened to be at the scene of the crime. B) the interviewing police officer provides feedback that they have chosen correctly. C) the person's body language implicates their guilt. D) the individuals in the lineup are wearing clothing similar to that of the culprit |
A) the person happened to be at the scene of the crime. |
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Eyewitness recognition of culprits in a police lineup has been shown to be aided if:
A) the individuals in the lineup are presented simultaneously. B) the individuals in the lineup are presented sequentially. C) the eyewitness is told that the culprit is in the lineup. D) the eyewitness is told to carefully study each individual before making a decision. |
B) the individuals in the lineup are presented sequentially. |
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When using the cognitive interview technique one should avoid:
A) asking follow up questions. B) sticking to predetermined questions. C) asking the subject to recall the events in reverse chronological order. D) asking the subject to recall unusual aspects of events. |
B) sticking to predetermined questions. |
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The presence of violence during an incident has been shown to _________.
A) enhance memory of both peripheral and central aspects of the event. B) reduce memory of both peripheral and central aspects of the event. C) enhance memory peripheral aspects of the event. D) enhance memory of central aspects of the event |
D) enhance memory of central aspects of the event |
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Which of these is NOT a difference between laboratory settings and real-life settings in studying eyewitness testimony?
A) inaccurate information in the laboratory carries little weight of penalty B) in the laboratory, the eyewitness is not the victim C) laboratory settings provide a single, passive perspective D) laboratory settings are more stressful than real-life settings |
D) laboratory settings are more stressful than real-life settings |
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Given the list of words (bed rest awake tired dream wake snooze) a person is likely to recall the word “sleep” because of the __________ illusion.
A) missing word B) Deese-Roediger-McDermott C) Russell-Jenkins D) cryptomnesia |
B) Deese-Roediger-McDermott |
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Some individuals believed that the Beach Boy's hit song “Surfin' USA” too closely resembled Chuck Berry's song “Sweet Little Sixteen”. This may be an example of ____________.
A) Hindsight bias B) Cryptomnesia C) Aphasia D) Memory conjunction error |
B) Cryptomnesia |
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According to the video clip, Schacter used a PET scan to show that true memories differed from false memories in that false memories did NOT show any activation in the _____________ while true memories did.
A) Visual cortex B) Hippocampus C) Amygdala D) Auditory cortex |
D) Auditory cortex |
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Among adults that recall being sexually abused as children, research suggests that the least trustworthy accounts come from individuals that:
A) continuously remembered the abuse. B) spontaneously remembered the abuse. C) spontaneously remembered the abuse during therapy. D) spontaneously remembered the abuse in a dream. |
C) spontaneously remembered the abuse during therapy. |
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Geraerts et al. (2007) study demonstrated that we should be very careful and suspect of claims of childhood sexual abuse when they were:
A) Recovered in therapy. B) Recovered spontaneously. C) Corroborated by other witnesses. D) Abused by one of their own parents. |
A) Recovered in therapy. |
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The stories of Paul Ingram, Nadean Cool, and Meredith Maran stress which of the following facts about false memories?
A) The damage false memories can have on a person's life. B) The power and danger of guided imagery, hypnosis, and other suggestive techniques. C) The significance of the method in which the person recovers these forgotten memories. D) All of the above |
D) All of the above |
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How did Wade, Garry, Read, and Lindsay (2002) implant false memories in their participants in their hot air balloon study?
A) Hypnosis B) Playing recordings of the events while the participants slept C) Doctored photos D) All of the above |
C) Doctored photos |
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Six-month-old Zachary has learned to kick when his leg is attached to a mobile positioned over his head. Psychologists would suggest that this demonstrates the development of _________ memories.
A) declarative B) procedural C) implicit D) autobiographical |
A) declarative |
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What type of memory can infants display immediately after birth?
A) procedural B) implicit C) episodic D) semantic |
B) implicit |
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Why does Rovee-Collier change the task from the mobile to the train with older babies?
A) older infants lose interest in the mobile B) the older infants expect trains to move C) older infants can grab the mobile D) young infants are not interested in trains |
C) older infants can grab the mobile |
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Which of these does not cause suggestibility of young children as witnesses?
A) social incompetence B) inability to source monitor C) neutral interviews D) limitations on language abilities |
C) neutral interviews |
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Ryan fell down a step and broke his leg when he was 2 years old, but he has no memories of it happening. This is best described as:
A) Source confusion B) Retrieval failure C) Infantile Amnesia D) Anterograde Amnesia |
C) Infantile Amnesia |
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Natalie wants to make sure the memory she is studying for her experiment is declarative and not implicit. Which of the following tests would you recommend her running to ensure she is measuring declarative memory?
A) If she runs patients with anterograde amnesia in the study and if they successfully do the task, then it is declarative . B) If she tries reducing the retention interval and performance on the task improves, it is evidence it is declarative. C) If she extends the time for studying and performance decreases, the task is probably declarative. D) If she adds more context cues and the performance does not improve, then the task is declarative |
B) If she tries reducing the retention interval and performance on the task improves, it is evidence it is declarative. |
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Which of the following best explains why younger children commit less false recall errors in the DRM paradigm than older children?
A) Younger children are not as good at semantic processing and thus the related words do not produce as much activation of the target (category) word. B) Younger children are good at categorizing the words in the list and thus the target word becomes highly active. C) Younger children have more developed declarative memories and thus are able to recall most words on the list causing them to make very few false recall errors. D) Older children commit less false recognition errors while younger children commit less false recall errors |
A) Younger children are not as good at semantic processing and thus the related words do not produce as much activation of the target (category) word. |
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In the video on autobiographical memory in infancy, what did they conclude from the study that had kids look into mirrors and later tested if they could remember where a stuffed animal lion was placed?
A) The age range in which a child develops a sense of self varies greatly. B) Infants lacked the cognitive ability to store memories of events, such as the lion being placed in the cabinet. C) Autobiographical memories are a precursor to the onset of a sense of self. D) A sense of self is necessary to develop autobiographical memories. |
D) A sense of self is necessary to develop autobiographical memories |
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What bias was shown in the study when people at a college reunion were asked to recall their college grades?
A) hindsight B) egocentric C) consistency D) stereotype |
B) egocentric |
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What bias was shown in the study of ballplayers predicting where the virtual ball would go after they hit it?
A) hindsight B) consistency C) change D) egocentric |
A) hindsight |
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When Joseph Bogen discusses his translation of the French term that he translated as "alien hand," he says he should have translated it as:
A) ambidextrous hand B) autonomous hand C) defiant hand D) diffident hand |
B) autonomous hand |
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How did Jill Bolte Taylor find her office phone number after her stroke?
A) she had written it on her hand B) on her cellphone C) in the phonebook D) on her business card |
D) on her business card |
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If you showed Joe, the split-brain patient, the following picture on the right side of the screen, which word would he choose?
A) face B) smile C) vegetables D) he could not identify it at all |
C) vegetables |
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When Joe, the split-brain patient, sees a figure on the ___________ side of the screen, he cannot name it, but he can draw it with his __________ hand.
A) right; right B) left; left C) left; right D) right; left |
B) left; left |
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What does the word gist mean as it was used in referring to memory?
A) the essence B) a prank C) the fringe D) a movement |
A) the essence |
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What is a schema?
A) a plan or program of action B) a study of the meaning or significance, particularly involving signs C) a knowledge structure that contains information about a familiar concept or event D) an abbreviated account of a particular occurrence |
C) a knowledge structure that contains information about a familiar concept or event |
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In Loftus' experiment involving a car crash, which question prompted the participants to give the highest estimate of car speed?
A) How fast was the car going when it bumped the other car? B) How fast was the car going when it hit the other car? C) How fast was the car going when it collided with the other car? D) How fast was the car going when it smashed the other car? |
D) How fast was the car going when it smashed the other car? |
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How does Loftus account for the recovery of some memories of childhood sexual abuse?
A) they have been repressed and are recovered by psychotherapy B) they have been repressed and are recovered under hypnosis C) they are hidden in the subconscious and may be accessed by dream therapy D) they may be created by suggestions from the therapist or hypnotist |
D) they may be created by suggestions from the therapist or hypnotist |
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What is the most likely way that our mental lexicon is arranged?
A) alphabetically B) by part of speech C) by frequency of use D) by meaning |
D) by meaning |
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What is semantic priming?
A) the measure of uniqueness or novelty of a word B) the arousal that occurs when a word is real, as opposed to the lack of arousal occurring following a non-word C) the activation of related words when a word and its meaning are activated D) actuation of the syntactic system |
C) the activation of related words when a word and its meaning are activated |
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Based on Meyer and Schvaneveldt's work, which of these words would you expect to show the quickest lexical decision time when preceded by the word "dark"?
A) record B) light C) bark D) drink |
B) light |
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What is a way to increase the semantic priming of other meanings of the word in a lexical decision task?
A) present the related word immediately after the first word B) use unrelated words or very uncommon words C) use words that rhyme with the target word D) introduce syntactically related words |
A) present the related word immediately after the first word |
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What is the term for a psychological experiment that serves as a model for the type of studies needed to examine certain phenomena in cognitive psychology and that is the basis for a different experiments devised from variants on the original experiment?
A) Gedanken experiment B) multi-baseline design C) paradigmatic task D) conceptual model |
C) paradigmatic task |
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In terms of Signal Detection Theory, saying the suspect is absent when he is present is a ______________.
A) hit B) miss C) false alarm D) correct rejection |
B) miss |
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Using Signal Detection Theory terminology, if a doctor views a X-ray photograph and fails to see the tumor, it is a __________________.
A) hit B) miss C) false alarm D) correct rejection |
B) miss |
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In the terms used in Signal Detection Theory, saying an enemy plane is on the radar screen when it isn't is a ____________________.
A) hit B) miss C) false alarm D) correct rejection |
C) false alarm |
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You are trying to find a date for your cousin's wedding. If you see an attractive potential dates at a party, but decide not to flirt with them because they look attached. You later find out that they are in a relationship. In the terms of signal detection theory, this was a _____________.
A) hit B) miss C) false alarm D) correct rejection |
D) correct rejection |
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The term for irrelevant stimuli is _____________.
A) distractions B) noise C) perturbations D) interference |
B) noise |
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What is the name for a context effect found in hearing which can be demonstrated by the tendency of people to fill in missing phonemic information with a sound that makes a word consistent with the meaning of the rest of the phrase?
A) configural superiority effect B) object-superiority effect C) phonemic restoration effect D) phonetic context effect |
C) phonemic restoration effect |
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What illusion is illustrated by the following figure?
A) spoke B) Ponzo C) moon D) Muller-Lyer |
B) Ponzo |
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What is illustrated by your ability to read the paragraph below? Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, olny taht the frist and lsat ltteres are at the rghit pcleas. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by ilstef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
A) top-down processing B) bottom-up processing C) context effects D) word superiority effect |
C) context effects |
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What approach is being used by beginning readers when they examine each letter and sound out the words?
A) top-down processing B) bottom-up processing C) context effects D) word superiority effects |
B) bottom-up processing |
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What is the name for the phenomenon in which people are quicker and more accurate at recognizing letters that are in words than letters presented by themselves?
A) name letter effect B) phonemic restoration effect C) Ponzo illusion D) word superiority effect |
D) word superiority effect |
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On average, how much more negative than positive material do depressed patients recall?
A) 10% B) 20% C) 30% D) more than 30% |
A) 10% |
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What is the type of memory test in which you are asked to recall stimulus words in any order some time after their presentation?
A) serial recall B) free recall C) cued recall D) yes-no recall |
B) free recall |
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Which of the following is NOT a mood induction technique?
A) Music Mood Induction Procedure B) hypnosis C) mirror-writing D) Velten Mood Induction Procedure |
C) mirror-writing |
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Angelica was laughing and talking to friends after getting off a ride at the fair when she received a text that her dog had been killed by a coyote. A year later, she out having a great time with friends and suddenly had a series of memories of hearing about her dog's death. What phenomena is this related to?
A) hindsight bias B) mood congruence C) mood dependence D) amnesia |
C) mood dependence |
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. The study in which divers either learned words underwater or on land and were tested either underwater or on land was concerned with which memory phenomenon?
A) mood congruence B) emotional contagion C) mood induction D) encoding specificity |
D) encoding specificity |
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Ken Norman of the University of Colorado, Boulder, gave an analogy in the False Memories film between the parts of the memories of an event and a set of balloons on strings. In the analogy, what part of the brain serves as the hand that holds all the strings of the balloons to unite them?
A) the prefrontal cortex B) the hippocampus C) the occipital lobe D) the amygdala |
B) the hippocampus |
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What was the event that led Nadean Cool to realize that she had created a whole new past for herself?
A) one of the her over 100 personalities told her the truth B) she received electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) C) her therapist moved away D) a new medication was prescribed for her |
C) her therapist moved away |
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Who influenced Paul Ingram's daughter to accuse him of sexually molesting her?
A) her therapist, after hypnotizing her B) other members of the police force who served with her father C) one of her teachers at school D) her counselor at church camp |
D) her counselor at church camp |
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Which of these was not one of the memories that Stephanie Slater was able to report after her kidnapping?
A) the sound of church bells in the distance B) the sound of a bell ringing whenever a door opened C) the sound of a radio in another room D) that she heard a motorcycle whenever her kidnapper left |
A) the sound of church bells in the distance |
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Craig and John attended the NCAA Championship basketball game 10 years ago. Craig claims that fans rushed onto the court after the game, while John stresses that the fans did not rush onto the court. What fact of memory best supports how two people can have different recollections of the same event?
A) Some people have bigger hippocampi and thus are better at converting memories from short-term to long-term. B) Memories are stored and maintained in complete form without distortions, but whether a person can retrieve the memories depends on the individual. C) Memories are constructed by bits and pieces from the past, which leave holes that the person must fill. D) Individuals vary in how well they are able to utilize the mind palace technique. |
B) Memories are stored and maintained in complete form without distortions, but whether a person can retrieve the memories depends on the individual. |
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Ken and Jennifer have cooked countless meals together. When asked to recall times that they have cooked together, we would expect which of the following?
A) Their memory for specific details will be superior, while their memory for the general procedures will be poor. B) They will be able to recall accurate accounts of the general procedure, but have very poor memory for the specific details. C) They will have detailed accounts of only a few occurrences, while having no memories for the remaining times they cooked together. D) They will have accurate memories for both the specifics and general procedures |
C) They will have detailed accounts of only a few occurrences, while having no memories for the remaining times they cooked together. |
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After Loftus was told that she was the one who found her mother’s dead body, which of the following did she experience?
A) Visualize the entire scene of herself by the poolside. B) In her mind's eye, she could see the police cars with their lights flashing. C) She began to fit other facts with this new idea that she found her mother’s dead body. D) All of the above |
D) All of the above |
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The video discusses how the ___________ processes source information and if it is damaged, it may lead to confabulations.
A) Frontal Lobe B) Hippocampus C) Amygdala D) Temporal lobe |
A) Frontal Lobe |
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After many sessions of hypnosis by her therapist, Nadean Cool experienced recalling all of the following false memories EXCEPT:
A) She was a famous actress. B) Her family was in a satanic cult. C) She was sexually abused by her father. D) All of the above. |
A) She was a famous actress. |
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Nadean’s past was replaced by false memories. Which disorder did Nadean soon experience after the onset of these false memories?
A) Bipolar Disorder B) ADHD C) Multiple Personality Disorder D) Antisocial Personality Disorder |
C) Multiple Personality Disorder |
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What did Loftus discover in her study in which subjects were asked to imagine falling and cutting their hands?
A) Participants who visualized cutting their hand on broken glass were confident that their memory of the event was accurate. B) False memories could not be implanted about something that had happened so long ago. C) Participants were clear of the source of the memory of the event and aware it was not an actual event of their childhood. D) Visualization did not increase the likelihood of creating a false memory |
A) Participants who visualized cutting their hand on broken glass were confident that their memory of the event was accurate. |
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In the experiment by Saul Kassin, _______ of the participants signed a form stating that they committed the “crime” of pressing the “alt” key. Of the participants, _________ recalled textured memories of pressing the key.
A) All; two-thirds B) Two-thirds; all C) Three-fourths; all D) All; one-third |
A) All; two-thirds |
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Connor witnessed a murder at a drum line competition. When he was brought in for questioning, the detective calmed Connor down and asked him to recall everything that he had seen. The detective was very patient and never interrupted Connor. At the end of the interview, he had Connor recall the last event of the crime and work backwards from that point (tell the story backwards). In this case, the detective is using which of the following techniques of interrogation?
A) Standard B) Psychoanalysis C) Client-centered D) Cognitive |
D) Cognitive |
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How did Nadean Cool get better and come to realize that all these memories she was recalling didn’t actually happen.
A) Her therapist used the Cognitive Interview technique. B) She realized they were false memories through hypnosis. C) Her doctor left town and she stopped taking her medications. D) Drawing her dreams on paper helped her confront the memories she was repressing |
C) Her doctor left town and she stopped taking her medications. |
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Distinguished UCI Professor, Dr. Elizabeth Loftus, was able to implant false memories in her research subjects by
A) hypnotizing them. B) unconsciously priming them. C) utilizing therapeutic suggestibility techniques. D) claiming their families had told her about a false childhood event. |
D) claiming their families had told her about a false childhood event. |
