Question 1

A patient is in their late sixties, and is gradually becoming more forgetful, confused, disoriented, and makes poor judgments. MOST likely, This patient is likely is suffering from __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  multiple sclerosis
B)  old age amnesia
C)  retrograde amnesia
D)  Alzheimer's diseaseE) None of the above
F) All of the above

Question 2

From the perspective of associative networks, your ability to think of the colour orange is likely associated with ____________.

Accepted Answer

A)  one node
B)  a pattern of nodes
C)  a pattern of neurons
D)  one neuronE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 3

According to the _____________ theory we forget information because other items in long-term memory impair our ability to retrieve it.

Accepted Answer

A)  decay
B)  redundancy
C)  neural trace
D)  interferenceE) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

Question 4

Declarative memory is to ________________ as procedural memory is to _____________.

Accepted Answer

A)  knowledge; skills
B)  skills; knowledge
C)  experiences; ethics
D)  ethics; experiencesE) All of the above
F) A) and D)

Question 5

George Sperling attempted to assess the duration of iconic memory by ____________.

Accepted Answer

A)  briefly flashing a display of letters and immediately asking how many letters people could recall
B)  asking people to recall different sets of numbers that were simultaneously presented to both ears
C)  investigating the accuracy of flashbulb memories
D)  measuring how long it took people to add three two-digit numbers in their headE) None of the above
F) A) and D)

Question 6

Describe some ways to measure explicit and implicit memory.

Accepted Answer

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Question 7

A student includes some outdoor games when packing for a picnic to a park. The student is using __________ of/for a picnic when doing so.

Accepted Answer

A)  concept
B)  logic
C)  reasoning
D)  schemaE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 8

Which of the following would be the best example of semantic memory?

Accepted Answer

A)  Your ability to recall the capital of Italy
B)  Your ability to recall what you did last night
C)  Your ability to recall how to drive a car
D)  Your ability to avoid priming
E)  Your ability to recognize if someone is riding a bike properlyF) B) and C)
G) C) and D)

Question 9

Because long-term memory's capacity is so large, we must organize the concepts or "files" we keep there. Our mental network or filing system of associated ideas and concepts is called

Accepted Answer

A)  a mnemonic.
B)  working memory.
C)  procedural memory.
D)  an associative network.
E)  a cognitive repository.F) C) and E)
G) B) and D)

Question 10

The three broad categories of memory enhancement techniques are

Accepted Answer

A)  maintenance techniques, elaborative aids, and semantic strategies
B)  overlearning, organizing, and chunking
C)  external aids, formal mnemonic techniques, and general memory strategies
D)  sensory aids, short-term strategies, and long-term techniquesE) B) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 11

Use the concepts of declarative versus procedural memory, and explicit versus implicit memory, to explain the pattern of H.M.'s amnesia.

Accepted Answer

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Question 12

The theory which proposes that forgetting is a result of physical memory traces fading away over time from disuse is the _____________.

Accepted Answer

A)  interference theory
B)  decay theory
C)  neural trace theory
D)  degenerative cue theoryE) A) and B)
F) All of the above

Question 13

Any external or internal stimulus that triggers the activation of information stored in long-term memory is a _________________.

Accepted Answer

A)  prospective memory
B)  semantic trigger
C)  flashbulb memory
D)  retrieval cueE) None of the above
F) C) and D)

Question 14

If you try to remember the lobes of the cortex by associating each one with a location in your house, you would be using the ____________.

Accepted Answer

A)  method of retrieval
B)  "house trick"
C)  method of loci
D)  "one is a bun" methodE) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

Question 15

Your friend Paulo was in a car crash and when you asked him what happened he could not remember anything at all about the crash. Rather than amnesia, Paulo could be displaying

Accepted Answer

A)  interference
B)  decay
C)  proactive memory loss
D)  repression
E)  retroactive memory lossF) None of the above
G) B) and E)

Question 16

Try as she might, Zoey cannot remember anything from the first three years of her childhood. Which of the following is NOT considered a possible explanation for infantile amnesia?

Accepted Answer

A)  Failure to encode the experiences deeply, results in a lack of retrieval cues
B)  Brain structures are not developed sufficiently to form these long lasting memories
C)  The creation of new memories interferes with the retrieval of early childhood memories
D)  To form memories, the concept of self is needed, and this sets in approximately at age twoE) A) and B)
F) B) and D)

Question 17

Flashbulb memories are often _____________ and research has shown that they are frequently _________________.

Accepted Answer

A)  implicit and hard to verbalize; inaccurate
B)  implicit and hard to verbalize; more accurate than normal memories
C)  vivid and easy to remember; inaccurate
D)  vivid and easy to remember; more accurate than normal memoriesE) A) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 18

Jennifer and Jeff are studying for their anatomy exam. Jeff is learning the cranial nerves by repeating them over and over. Jennifer is using a mnemonic device to remember them in the proper order. While Jeff is repeating "I. Olfactory II. Optic III. Oculomotor IV. Trochlear V. Trigeminal VI. Abducens VII. Facial VIII. Auditory (Vestibulocochlear)  IX. Glossopharyngeal X. Vagus XI. Spinal Accessory XII. Hypoglossal," Jennifer is saying "Onward Old Orcs Toward The Argonath For A Great Villain, Slay Hobbits," because she knows that will help her by using the first letter of each word to keep the nerves in the right order. If the levels-of-processing theory is correct,

Accepted Answer

A)  Jeff and Jennifer will do equally well on the exam.
B)  Jennifer will recall the cranial nerves in their proper order better than Jeff because she is using a mnemonic device.
C)  Jeff will recall the cranial nerves in their proper order better than Jennifer because his approach was more straightforward.
D)  Who does better has more to do with personality differences than with study techniques.
E)  Jeff will recall the cranial nerves in their proper order better than Jennifer because his approach required less effort.F) All of the above
G) A) and B)

Question 19

Eva rides the bus to and from work each day. Tonight, she needs to stop by the market, so she associates each grocery item on her list with a different bus stop. As she walks through the store, she imagines she is riding the bus. At each stop, she picks up one of the items on her list. Eva is using (the)

Accepted Answer

A)  acronyms.
B)  method of loci.
C)  mono-coding theory.
D)  rote memorization.
E)  method of least squares.F) C) and D)
G) B) and D)

Question 20

Modern cognitive scientists refer to short-term memory as "working" memory because they believe that it functions similar to a(n)

Accepted Answer

A)  keyboard on a personal computer
B)  office of a busy librarian
C)  tiny loading platform
D)  holding station for informationE) None of the above
F) A) and D)

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