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Question 2 knowledge most likely refers to a recognition and…
Question 2
knowledge most likely refers to a recognition and understanding of factual information.
Question 2 options:
Procedural
Pizza seeking
Episodic
Semantic
Question 4
If the letters OBACKFIBHJCA are rearranged into HBO-JFK-CIA-ABC, they become much easier to store and retrieve from memory. This type of strategy for remembering things is best called:
Question 4 options:
maintenance rehearsal device
method of loci
acrostic
acronym
implicit memory
Question 5
How is the forgetting function discovered by Ebbinghaus (1890) best described?
forgetting is a very slow and gradual, but continuing, process
forgetting does not occur until 24 hours of having learned something but occurs very rapidly thereafter
forgetting occurs very rapidly immediately after learning and then levels off
forgetting is very slow immediately after learning but then declines very rapidly
Question 10
You were an eyewitness to an car accident and are asked to describe what happened. Which of the following tests of memory is most likely being used when you respond as an eyewitness?
In the SENSORY STORE (Neisser), visual information is to _______ as auditory information is to _______.
Question 10 options:
feature; template
precategorical; pattern recognition
iconic; echoic
erasure; decay
Question 11
A research participant is asked to read a list of words. Then person is given an incomplete word stem, and asked to write a many words as he or she can using the stem. Most individuals respond with more words that were on the original list. This memory research technique is used to study
Question 11 options:
parallel processing memory.
recall memory.
explicit memory.
implicit memory.
Question 12
In Sperling’s famous experiments testing the capacity of the sensory register in the Information Processing Model, a WHOLE REPORT PROCEDURE consisted of naming?
Question 12 options:
the letters of the row of the letter matrix that was indicated by the tone or marker
the letters of one of the rows of the letter matrix within a given time limit
as many letters as possible from the entire letter matrix
off the bottom row only from the letter matrix
Question 21
For Ebbinghaus (1890), “savings” represented
Question 21 options:
the amount of time required to learn a list the first time
the ability to remember more and more items over many learning trials
the relearning of a previously learned list using fewer learning trials than when the list was first learned
getting an extra large pizza instead of a smaller one
Question 22
Which of the following memories is best described as the contents of our conscious awareness?
Question 22 options:
stimulus
sensory
short-term
Long-term
Question 25
While quizzing a classmate on material for this test, they say that they know the answer but just can’t come up with it. This best demonstrates a problem with:
Question 25 options:
encoding
storage
retrieval
human brains
Question 29
Inez has learned that if she uses the material that she is studying in some way, either by applying it to her everyday life, or by tutoring someone else, she remembers it. Inez is actually most likely using:
Question 29 options:
the power of pizza.
elaborative rehearsal.
maintenance rehearsal.
recognition strategies.
Question 31
Some of you may have learned the lines and spaces of the G-cleft in your music classes by Every Good Baby Does Fine. This is most likely an example of a(n):
Question 31 options:
maintenance rehearsal device
method of loci
acrostic
acronym
implicit memory
Question 41
If you look up the address of a person you have never visited before & 3 minutes later can no longer remember the address, you should conclude the information was probably held in:
Question 41 options:
procedural memory
short-term memory
long-term memory
a schema
Question 50
You witnessed a traffic accident and are now in traffic court being cross-examined by the defense attorney. If the defense attorney (for the person causing the wreck) knows about memory and how to manipulate a witness’s recall abilities, which of the following questions would she be most likely to ask?
Question 50 options:
“How fast was my client going when he hit the truck?”
“How fast was my client going when he bumped the truck?”
“How fast was the defendant going when he slammed into the truck?”
Question 51
When subjects are presented with a stimulus item which is immediately followed by a (“Brown-Peterson Paradigm”) distraction task (e.g., counting backwards) this:
Question 51 options:
really gets the brain juices going.
promotes rehearsal.
interferes with or prevents rehearsal.
none of the above.
Question 54
Greg was studying for an anatomy test. In order to remember the bones of the foot, he associated each bone with a familiar location in his house. This type of strategy for remembering things is best called
Question 54 options:
word association.
method of loci.
imaginal construction.
peg-word method.
Question 55
The memory of classically conditioned responses most likely depends primarily on the
Question 55 options:
basal ganglia.
hippocampus.
cerebellum.
cerebral cortex.
