Question 1

While the primacy effect is thought to be due to the early transfer of information to long-term memory, this effect appears to be due to information remaining in short-term memory. This is called the __________ effect.

Accepted Answer

A)  rehearsal
B)  serial position
C)  final position
D)  recencyE) All of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 2

A friend tells you that he really wants to do well on his next test and asks you for some study tips. A good suggestion according to the text is to

Accepted Answer

A)  use maintenance rehearsal
B)  use imagery
C)  use massed practice
D)  do not overlearn the material
E)  try to avoid linking new material to in formation already in memoryF) A) and B)
G) D) and E)

Question 3

All of the following were mentioned as suggestions to improve memory EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

A)  using maintenance rehearsal to process information deeply.
B)  organizing your information.
C)  linking new information to examples and concepts already in memory.
D)  distributing your learning over time.E) None of the above
F) All of the above

Question 4

It is believed that chunking enhances memory by

Accepted Answer

A)  enhancing the associations between concepts
B)  widening the information-processing bottleneck due to the limited capacity of short-term memory
C)  reducing the amount of raw information that must be encoded into memory
D)  providing a cue to help trigger our memory for the information it representsE) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 5

A student, mentioned in the text book, wondered why he failed the first exam. After examining his textbook, the professor knew that this student stood little chance of success because he only used

Accepted Answer

A)  maintenance rehearsal techniques
B)  elaborative rehearsal techniques
C)  chunking
D)  hierarchies
E)  echoic representationsF) D) and E)
G) B) and D)

Question 6

Assume a friend of yours is having trouble learning and remembering information for one of his/her college classes. Given what you have learned in this course, offer four techniques or things he/she can do to improve long-term memory and academic learning.

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Question 7

You want to work on an essay that you have saved on the hard drive of your computer. You search through the hierarchically organized folders on your computer until you find and open the document you want. It appears on the screen of your monitor. Relative to the information-processing system metaphor of human memory, this example is most similar to

Accepted Answer

A)  storage
B)  sensory memory
C)  retrieval
D)  encodinE) A) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 8

A police officer asks an eyewitness how fast the car was going when it crashed into the pole. Using the word "crashed" instead of "contacted" will often lead to a different answer, which is consistent with the ____________.

Accepted Answer

A)  misrepresentation effect
B)  misinformation effect
C)  context effect
D)  spatial confusion theoryE) C) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 9

When information to be memorized is organized into a hierarchy, this capitalizes on the fact that memory is enhanced by associations between concepts.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

One of your best friends was in a car accident and now she cannot remember the events that occurred just before the accident. This memory loss is an example of

Accepted Answer

A)  retrograde amnesia
B)  anterograde amnesia
C)  proactive interference
D)  dementia
E)  decayF) A) and D)
G) A) and E)

Question 11

Interference and amnesia both involve forgetting information. The difference is that

Accepted Answer

A)  interference involves decay while amnesia does not
B)  interference is always proactive while amnesia is retroactive
C)  interference is due to retrieval failure and amnesia is typically due to trauma
D)  in amnesia the memory is repressed but in interference it is not
E)  amnesia is due to dementia while interference is notF) C) and D)
G) A) and D)

Question 12

If we desired to eliminate the recency effect, we could

Accepted Answer

A)  present the words on the list more quickly and then delay the recall test by 15 to 30 seconds
B)  delay the recall test by 15 to 30 seconds
C)  delay the recall test by 15 to 30 seconds and prevent rehearsal with a distracter task
D)  present the words on the list more slowlyE) B) and C)
F) A) and C)

Question 13

Words at the end of a list are typically remembered better than words presented in the middle. This is known as the _________________ effect and it presumably happens because the last few words on the list remain in the ________________ memory.

Accepted Answer

A)  serial position; sensory
B)  recency; long-term
C)  primacy; short-term
D)  recency; short-termE) None of the above
F) A) and D)

Question 14

A memory researcher claims that a concept such as "dog" is triggered by the simultaneous firing of nodes #8, #47, and #123 in a network, but if node #8 is simultaneously triggered with nodes #9 and #301, an entirely different concept appears in the mind. The views of this researcher are most consistent with the ____________.

Accepted Answer

A)  dual coding theory of memory
B)  associative network theory of memory
C)  state-dependence theory of memory
D)  neural network theory of memoryE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 15

Though both are effective for keeping information active in short-term memory, elaborative rehearsal is more effective than maintenance rehearsal for facilitating the transfer of information into ___________ memory.

Accepted Answer

A)  working
B)  procedural
C)  sensory
D)  long-termE) B) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 16

The term boundary extension refers to our tendency to remember scenes as being more expansive than they actually are. It is thought that this occurs because of ______________.

Accepted Answer

A)  source confusion and the misinformation effect
B)  the tendency for flashbulb memories to be less accurate than they seem
C)  proactive and retroactive interference
D)  our expectation about how scenes should lookE) None of the above
F) All of the above

Question 17

Which of the following is NOT a component of working memory?

Accepted Answer

A)  phonological loop or auditory working memory
B)  visuospatial sketchpad
C)  iconic store
D)  central executive
E)  episodic bufferF) A) and D)
G) B) and C)

Question 18

Paivio proposed that the two forms in which long-term memory information is stored are

Accepted Answer

A)  hierarchies and chunks
B)  verbal codes and visual codes
C)  visual images and acronyms
D)  mnemonics and semantic codesE) B) and C)
F) C) and D)

Question 19

When memory loss occurs for events that happened prior to the onset of the amnesia, this is called ___________ amnesia.

Accepted Answer

A)  anterograde
B)  retrograde
C)  proactive
D)  prospectiveE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 20

If you were to examine the brain of an individual with Alzheimer's disease, you would find an abnormal amount of

Accepted Answer

A)  serotonin
B)  plaques and tangles
C)  repression
D)  hippocampus tissue
E)  long-term potentiationF) All of the above
G) A) and B)

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