Psychology 1012 - General Psychology » Summer 2022 » Chapter 7

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Question #1
Ever since Janna and Marcus had quintuplets, people stop them seemingly everywhere, mention how cute they are, and then ask the children's names. Where do Janna and Marcus access this information?
A.   Declarative memory
B.   Eidetic memory
C.   Semantic memory
D.   Procedural memory
Question #2
In the process of creating memories, what is the first stop for images experienced by a person?
A.   Episodic memory
B.   Sensory memory
C.   Semantic memory
D.   Short-term memory
Question #3
The inability to remember an old email password sometime after creating a new password is an example of ________.
A.   retroactive interference
B.   proactive interference
C.   cue-dependent forgetting
D.   state-dependent forgetting
Question #4
Eidetic imagery can best be described as ________.
A.   symbolic
B.   cinematic
C.   emotional
D.   inaccurate
Question #5
Elaborative processing improves memory for a piece of information by adding ________.
A.   meaning
B.   images
C.   structure
D.   symbols
Question #6
The hyphen, spaces, and parentheses in a telephone number support memory through which of the following?
A.   Potentiation
B.   Mnemonics
C.   Chunking
D.   Redintegration
Question #7
The conceptual structure in which we store memories is similar to a ________.
A.   pyramid
B.   timeline
C.   pie chart
D.   flowchart
Question #8
Which of the following would be stored as an episodic memory?
A.   The chemical symbol for water
B.   How to brush your teeth
C.   Your high school graduation
D.   The months in a year
Question #9
Maria was asked by her former classmate Theresa what she was doing on May 19th last year. Maria replied that she had no idea. Theresa said that it was the day of their high school graduation, and Maria then was able to recall in detail what she did that day. Maria's inability to recall at first was most likely because she was experiencing ________.
A.   the decay of memory traces
B.   encoding failure
C.   a lack of retrieval cues
D.   a tip-of-the-tongue state
Question #10
Russell is memorizing the scout law for his initiation into his troop. Russell makes up a sentence that aligns the first letter of every word with the beginning letter of each word in the scout law. To help him memorize the scout law, Russell is using a(n) ________________.
A.   mental image
B.   acronym
C.   keyword method
D.   acrostic
Question #11
Which of the following is most accurate regarding the use of short-term memory?
A.   The most information that can be held in short-term memory is 7 plus or minus 2 information bits.
B.   Creating information chunks is the key to making the most use of short-term memory.
C.   Rote rehearsal is superior to elaborative processing when transferring information from short-term memory into long-term memory.
D.   Information cannot be held in short-term memory and needs to be processed quickly.
Question #12
Soren had a brain tumor in a difficult area and required a risky operation to remove it. After the surgery, Soren was unable to form new memories. It is likely that the surgical procedure damaged his ______________.
A.   cerebellum
B.   hypothalamus
C.   hippocampus
D.   cerebrum
Question #13
Adah has driven the same route to work every day for 35 years. Last week, the highway department opened a new bypass that saves Adah 15 minutes in travel time. However, three times this week, Adah forgot to turn onto the bypass and ended up taking her traditional route to work. Which biological concept likely caused Adah to make this mistake?
A.   Memory consolidation.
B.   Limbic system stimulation.
C.   Long-term potentiation.
D.   Decay theory.
Question #14
Jameson can tell you what the weather was like every day over his entire lifespan of 57 years. Jameson's amazing memory ability is impressive; however, his semantic memory is about normal. Jameson's memory skills are characteristic of __________.
A.   photographic memory
B.   highly superior autobiographical memory
C.   eidetic memory
D.   flashbulb memory
Question #15
Chantal is memorizing her lines for the school play. She read and practiced her lines for Act 1 until she mastered them, then went on to review Act 2, and eventually memorized the lines for Act 3. What strategy did Chantal use to remember all her lines?
A.   Elaborative processing
B.   Retrieval cues
C.   Mental imagery
D.   Part learning
Question #16
Which of the following is the best example of using a mnemonic device to remember the cel phone number of a friend?
A.   Susan makes up a sentence with words that start with the same letter as the word for each number of his friend's cell phone number.
B.   Ashley writes her friend's cell phone number on a piece of paper.
C.   Deng enters his friend's cell phone number into his phone's contact list and calls his friend to make sure it is entered correctly.
D.   Paolo recites his friend's phone number five times.
Question #17
An especially vivid and detailed recollection of an emotional event is called a(n) ________.
A.   flashbulb memory
B.   echoic memory
C.   eidetic memory
D.   iconic memory
Question #18
During a family gathering Sorboni asks her grandfather to tell her about his immigration to the United States when he was a child. What will the grandfather draw upon to tell Sorboni his story?
A.   Procedural memory
B.   Episodic memory
C.   Sensory memory
D.   Semantic memory
Question #19
Chung's mother asks if he could stop at the local mall and pick up her handbag at the mall's security office. Chung was unsure what his mother's handbag looked like, but when he arrived at the security office, he quickly identified the handbag from several others. To correctly identify the missing handbag, Chaska used ________.
A.   priming
B.   relearning
C.   recall
D.   recognition
Question #20
A friend asked Sheldon where he got the video game they were playing. Sheldon replied that he received it for his birthday. Sheldon's mother overheard the conversation and said that Sheldon got a different game for his birthday and that the game they were playing was a gift to his sister on her birthday. What caused the error in Sheldon's memory about the game?
A.   Memory trace decay
B.   A false memory
C.   Source confusion
D.   Retrieval failure

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