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Question #1
Which of the following actions is an example of prospective memory?
A.   learning historical dates for your exam tomorrow
B.   planning to pick up a library book on your way home tomorrow
C.   remembering what you did last weekend
D.   daydreaming about your date next Friday
Question #2
Which of the following is NOT an example of prospective memory?
A.   Jordan remembered to return the book to the library by the due date.
B.   Frank remembered to set his alarm for an important meeting the next day.
C.   Kayla remembered that she needed to get milk after work.
D.   Erin remembered that she had a lot of fun last Christmas.
Question #3
Shania describes a made-up story to Ronald in vivid detail about a time that they got into serious trouble as young children. Later on, Ronald remembers the event even though it never actually happened. Ronald is most likely experiencing:
A.   retroactive interference.
B.   persistence.
C.   a false memory.
D.   blocking.
Question #4
George Miller discovered that short-term memory is limited to ________ plus or minus ________ items, or chunks of information.
A.   five; three
B.   seven; two
C.   ten; three
D.   nine; one
Question #5
After reading your textbook, you are able to maintain the bold key words in coded representations in a network of neurons in your brain. In memory, this process is called:
A.   attention.
B.   encoding.
C.   storage.
D.   retrieval.
Question #6
You have been away attending college for three months. When you return home for the winter break, your family dog recognized you immediately. Your dog responded this way because his brain:
A.   created a mental video recording of what you look like.
B.   encoded the visual information about what you look like.
C.   assessed the information already stored in his brain about what you look like.
D.   stored the information about what you look like.
Question #7
When we make our memories consistent with our current beliefs or attitudes, we are experiencing:
A.   suggestibility.
B.   memory misattribution.
C.   memory bias.
D.   persistence.
Question #8
Travis is taking a new medicine that has a side effect of disrupting his short-term storage. Based on this fact, you know that Travis will have difficultly recalling:
A.   a photograph he saw less than a second ago.
B.   a phone number he heard 15 seconds ago.
C.   how to ride his bicycle.
D.   the multiplication tables he learned in third grade.
Question #9
Memory is an imperfect record of everything we see and experience primarily because our:
A.   long-term storage is limited.
B.   brains’ networks of neurons change over time.
C.   sensory storage does not last long enough.
D.   ability to direct attention is limited.
Question #10
Chris is looking for his friend in a crowd of people at a concert. As he scans the crowd, he often blinks but still retains a brief visual image of many of the faces in the crowd for a very brief time. Chris is able to maintain this visual information due to the function of his:
A.   sensory storage.
B.   long-term storage.
C.   working memory.
D.   short-term storage.

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