Psychology Ch 8

Front 1

After Maya told her friend the 5-digit password to a protected website, her friend was able to remember it only long enough to type it into the password box. In this instance, the password was clearly stored in her friend's ________ memory.

procedural

short-term

iconic

implicit

Back 1

short-term

Front 2

The encoding of information directly into long-term storage without the aid of working memory best illustrates:

chunking. automatic processing. iconic memory. the spacing effect.

Back 2

automatic processing.

Front 3

Mr. Nydam is unable to remember playing golf several times each week on a particular course. Yet the more he plays the course, the more his game improves. His experience illustrates the need to distinguish between:

short-term memory and long-term memory. massed practice and distributed practice. explicit memory and implicit memory. recognition and recall.

Back 3

explicit memory and implicit memory.

Front 4

Another term for implicit memory is ________ memory.

iconic

short-term

nondeclarative

working

Back 4

nondeclarative

Front 5

Mentally rehearsing the glossary definitions of unfamiliar terms in order to remember them for a later test illustrates:

the peg-word system. procedural memory. effortful processing. echoic memory.

Back 5

effortful processing.

Front 6

Employing the single word HOMES to remember the names of North America's five Great Lakes best illustrates the use of:

the spacing effect. the self-reference effect. acronyms. implicit memory.

Back 6

acronyms.

Front 7

Many students review course material at various times during a semester so they will be prepared for the final exam. These students are especially likely to retain the information far into the future. This best illustrates the value of

distributed practice. implicit memory. procedural memory. the self-reference effect.

Back 7

distributed practice.

Front 8

The semantic processing of the words in a short poem illustrates:

procedural memory. the peg-word system. the testing effect. deep processing.

Back 8

deep processing.

Front 9

An inability to form semantic memories would most likely result from damage to the:

basal ganglia. hypothalamus. cerebellum. hippocampus.

Back 9

hippocampus.

Front 10

Which of the following is central to the processing of procedural memories?

hippocampus

hypothalamus

basal ganglia

amygdala

Back 10

basal ganglia

Front 11

Conscious memories of emotionally stressful events are especially likely to be facilitated by activation of the

basal ganglia. amygdala. cerebellum. hypothalamus.

Back 11

amygdala.

Front 12

Which of the following is believed to be the synaptic basis for learning and memory?

priming

the primacy effect

serial positioning

long-term potentiation

Back 12

long-term potentiation

Front 13

The happier Judie is, the more readily she recalls positive life experiences. This best illustrates that emotional states can become:

retrieval cues. a primacy effect. procedural memories. flashbulb memories.

Back 13

retrieval cues.

Front 14

At a block party, Cyndi is introduced to eight new neighbors. Moments later, she remembers only the names of the first three and last two neighbors. Her experience best illustrates

state-dependent memory. context-dependent memory. implicit memory. the serial position effect.

Back 14

the serial position effect.

Front 15

After suffering a brain injury in a motorcycle accident, Arotza cannot form new memories. He can, however, remember events before the accident. Arotza's memory difficulty most clearly illustrates:

retroactive interference. the misinformation effect. anterograde amnesia. proactive interference.

Back 15

anterograde amnesia.

Front 16

During her evening Spanish language exam, Janica so easily remembers the French vocabulary she studied that morning that she finds it difficult to recall the Spanish vocabulary she rehearsed that afternoon. Her difficulty best illustrates:

the misinformation effect. proactive interference. source amnesia. retroactive interference.

Back 16

proactive interference.

Front 17

Mrs. McBride can't consciously recall how frequently she criticizes her children because it would be too anxiety-arousing to do so. Sigmund Freud would have suggested that her poor memory illustrates:

source amnesia. proactive interference. automatic processing. repression.

Back 17

repression.

Front 18

After Teresa was verbally threatened by someone in a passing car, she was asked whether she recognized the man who was driving the car. Several hours later, Teresa mistakenly recalled that the driver was a male rather than a female. Teresa's experience best illustrates:

implicit memory. proactive interference. the misinformation effect. anterograde amnesia

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the misinformation effect.

Front 19

Answering practice test questions about text material you have studied is a useful strategy for:

automatically processing complex information. facilitating the development of implicit memory. inhibiting infantile amnesia. becoming aware of what you do not yet know.

Back 19

becoming aware of what you do not yet know.

Front 20

A measure of your memory in which you need to pick the correctly learned answer from a displayed list of options is known as a measure of:

recall. recognition. reconstruction. relearning.

Back 20

recognition.

Front 21

Researchers now recognize the active information processing that occurs in short-term memory and refer to it as ________ memory.

sensory

working

procedural

implicit

Back 21

working

Front 22

When you hear familiar words in your native language, it is virtually impossible not to register the meaning of the words. This best illustrates the importance of

the peg-word system. automatic processing. iconic memory. the spacing effect.

Back 22

automatic processing.

Front 23

Which of the following is most likely to be stored as an implicit memory?

a mental image of one's best friend

the date of one's own birth

a conditioned fear of guns

one's own name

Back 23

a conditioned fear of guns

Front 24

Suppose you are out of town and have to access one of your password-protected accounts. You look up the number on your password list, but by the time you are ready to access the account, you have forgotten that password. This best illustrates the limited capacity of ________ memory.

long-term

implicit

short-term

explicit

Back 24

short-term

Front 25

Combining individual letters into familiar words enables you to remember more of the letters in this sentence. This best illustrates the value of:

the spacing effect. iconic memory. the self-reference effect. chunking.

Back 25

chunking

Front 26

Which of the following questions about the word depressed would best prepare you to correctly remember tomorrow that you had seen the word on this quiz?

How well does the word describe you? Does the word consist of nine letters? Is the word written in italic? Does the word rhyme with obsessed?

Back 26

How well does the word describe you?

Front 27

Damage to the hippocampus would be most likely to interfere with a person's ability to develop:

procedural memories. episodic memories. implicit memories. classically conditioned associations

Back 27

episodic memories.

Front 28

Having read a story once, certain people with severe memory problems will read it faster the second time even though they can't recall having seen the story before. They have most likely suffered damage to the

hippocampus. cerebellum. basal ganglia. amygdala.

Back 28

hippocampus.

Front 29

Many people can easily recall exactly what they were doing when they first learned of the death of a close friend or family member. This best illustrates ________ memory.

procedural

flashbulb

implicit

state-dependent

Back 29

flashbulb

Front 30

Activating memories of your childhood by forming vivid mental images of various locations in your childhood home best illustrates:

automatic processing.a primacy effect. the serial position effect. priming.

Back 30

priming

Front 31

Whenever Valerie experiences intense feelings of fear, she is overwhelmed with childhood memories of her abusive parents. Valerie's experience best illustrates:

memory consolidation. mood-congruent memory. implicit memory. the serial position effect.

Back 31

mood-congruent memory.

Front 32

The gradual fading of the physical memory trace contributes to:

encoding failure. storage decay. anterograde amnesia. proactive interference.

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storage decay.

Front 33

While taking the final exam in American history, Marie was surprised and frustrated by her momentary inability to remember the name of the current president of the United States. Her difficulty most clearly illustrates:

implicit memory. déjà vu. the misinformation effect. retrieval failure.

Back 33

retrieval failure.

Front 34

Although Ron typically smokes two packs of cigarettes a day, he recalls smoking little more than a pack a day. This poor memory best illustrates:

the misinformation effect. motivated forgetting. imagination inflation. storage decay.

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motivated forgetting.

Front 35

After absorbing the false suggestion that as children they became ill after eating spoiled egg salad, Dutch university students were less likely to eat egg salad sandwiches. Their behavior best illustrates the impact of:

the misinformation effect. anterograde amnesia. proactive interference. repressed memories.

Back 35

the misinformation effect.

Front 36

Several months after watching a science fiction movie about spaceship travel and alien abductions, Steve began to remember that he had been abducted by aliens and personally subjected to many of the horrors portrayed in the movie. His mistaken recall best illustrates:

implicit memory. anterograde amnesia. source amnesia. proactive interference.

Back 36

source amnesia.

Front 37

Mentally visualizing yourself sitting at the same desk in the same room in which you initially learned course material can be an effective way to recall what you previously learned because this mental visualization activates:

source misattribution. implicit memory. retrieval cues. proactive interference.

Back 37

retrieval cues.

Front 38

Eyewitnesses to a crime often recall the details of the crime most accurately when they return to the scene of the crime. This best illustrates:

Back 38

context-dependent memory.