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Question #1
Which of the following actions is an example of prospective memory?
A.   remembering what you did last weekend
B.   daydreaming about your date next Friday
C.   planning to pick up a library book on your way home tomorrow
D.   learning historical dates for your exam tomorrow
Question #2
Which of the following is NOT an example of prospective memory?
A.   Frank remembered to set his alarm for an important meeting the next day.
B.   Erin remembered that she had a lot of fun last Christmas.
C.   Kayla remembered that she needed to get milk after work.
D.   Jordan remembered to return the book to the library by the due date.
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.   blocking.
B.   a false memory.
C.   persistence.
D.   retroactive interference.
Question #4
George Miller discovered that short-term memory is limited to ________ plus or minus ________ items, or chunks of information.
A.   seven; two
B.   five; three
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.   storage.
B.   retrieval.
C.   attention.
D.   encoding.
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.   persistence.
D.   memory bias.
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 phone number he heard 15 seconds ago.
B.   the multiplication tables he learned in third grade.
C.   how to ride his bicycle.
D.   a photograph he saw less than a second ago.
Question #9
Memory is an imperfect record of everything we see and experience primarily because our:
A.   ability to direct attention is limited.
B.   sensory storage does not last long enough.
C.   long-term storage is limited.
D.   brains’ networks of neurons change over time.
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.   working memory.
B.   short-term storage.
C.   long-term storage.
D.   sensory storage.

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