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H.M. had part of his hippocampus removed. The resulting disruption primarily involved

Question 1 options:

anterograde amnesia.
retrograde amnesia.
both retrograde and anterograde amnesia.
nonverbal disabilities.

Question 2 (2 points)

H.M. had much of his hippocampus removed to alleviate seizures. An unfortunate side effect was impaired explicit memory, even though later testing revealed that his implicit memory was spared. This result provides one half of a double dissociation. In order to complete the double dissociation, which of the following patients would need to be found?

Question 2 options:

a patient with intact implicit memory and intact explicit memory
a patient with an intact hippocampus and explicit memory deficits
a patient with intact explicit memory and impaired implicit memory
a patient with explicit memory intact and a damaged hippocampus

Question 3 (2 points)

In many circumstances, participants correctly recognize that a stimulus is familiar, but they are mistaken in their beliefs about where and when they encountered the stimulus. This error is referred to as

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source confusion.
origin error.
amnesia.
false identification.

Question 4 (2 points)

Current evidence indicates that patients suffering from Korsakoff’s amnesia

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show greater disruption in implicit memory than in explicit memory.
suffer from disruption in both implicit and explicit memory.
show intact implicit memory with perceptual cues but disrupted implicit memory with conceptual cues.
have preserved implicit memory despite severe disruption in explicit memory.

Question 5 (2 points)

Mark suffered a blow to the head many weeks ago, causing retrograde amnesia. Which of the following is Mark LEAST likely to remember?

Question 5 options:

facts that he learned in the month after his injury, including the layout of the hospital in which he received care
any explicit memory for an event that took place just after his injury
specific episodes in the 2 weeks following his injury
events that took place just prior to his injury

Question 6 (2 points)

In a classic demonstration, Claparède showed that

Question 6 options:

the behavior of a Korsakoff ‘s amnesia patient can be changed by a recent event even though the patient shows no signs of remembering that event.
Korsakoff ‘s amnesiacs show more severe retrograde amnesia than anterograde amnesia.
Korsakoff ‘s amnesiacs show an extraordinary ability to recall their plans for the future even though they cannot remember their own pasts.
the behavior of a Korsakoff ‘s amnesia patient is less well organized than clinicians have theorized.

Question 7 (2 points)

Which of the following experimental results is LEAST likely to be found?

Question 7 options:

Previously heard sentences are more likely to be judged true on a second hearing, even though the participants were told the original sentences were false.
A burst of noise with a familiar sentence embedded in it is judged to be quieter than a burst of noise with an unfamiliar sentence embedded in it.
Patients who do not remember having heard certain pieces of music before still prefer those pieces over novel ones.
Made-up names that were heard before are judged to be famous people’s names on a test immediately following initial presentation.

Question 8 (2 points)

Because of the influence of implicit memory, participants judge

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unfamiliar sentences to be more believable.
familiar sentences to be more believable.
familiar sentences to be more believable, but only if they heard the sentence from a trustworthy source.
unfamiliar sentences to be more believable, but only if they have forgotten the source of the familiar sentences.

Question 9 (2 points)

Which of the following statements is NOT likely to be an influence of implicit memory?

Question 9 options:

Participants know they have encountered the stimulus recently but cannot recall the details of the encounter.
Participants have a preference for a familiar stimulus in comparison to other, new stimuli.
Participants find a claim to be more credible merely because they encountered it at some point in the past, even if they have no memory of that encounter.
Participants remember the circumstances in which they first encountered a stimulus.

Question 10 (2 points)

A friend of yours has recently grown a beard. When you encounter him, you realize at once that something about his face has changed, but you are not certain what has changed. We can conclude from this that

Question 10 options:

you detected the decrease in fluency in your recognition of your friend’s face.
your memory of your friend’s face is influenced by context-dependent learning.
you are displaying an instance of source amnesia.
you are being influenced by the fact that there are fewer men with beards than men without beards.

Question 11 (2 points)

Julie can remember accurately what she wore, what she did, and what the weather was like on any day from 1999. She likely has

Question 11 options:

retrograde amnesia.

highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM).

autobiographical memory.

anterograde amnesia.

Question 12 (2 points)

Which of the following statements is true about the retrieval failure hypothesis of forgetting?

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Retrieval is always an all-or-nothing experience, meaning people either can fully retrieve all aspects of a memory or none at all.

There is a greater likelihood of retrieval failure with a greater retention interval because it is more likely your perspective has changed.

Memories that can no longer be retrieved are no longer stored in long-term memory, making them impossible to retrieve.

Memories that have been consolidated can never be subject to retrieval failure because they have been permanently stabilized.

Question 13 (2 points)

After participants have witnessed an event, being asked misleading questions can influence their

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longer-term retention of the event, but not their reports of the event immediately after witnessing it.

immediate reports of the event as well as their recall of the event if they try to remember it sometime later.

immediate reports of the event but has little impact on longer-term retention.

reports of an event only if the questions plant false ideas that are compatible with the participants’ schemas.

Question 14 (2 points)

Memory errors and distortions have been documented

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only in the recall of events directly experienced by participants.

only for memory of the exact phrasing of prose material.

in the recall of complex events.

only for memory of unfamiliar material.

Question 15 (2 points)

Which of the following is NOT true of memory?

Question 15 options:

Most memories are probably accurate.

Apparently lost memories can be recovered through hypnosis.

Gaps in memory, such as drawing a blank, can occur.

Memory errors can be created by outside sources as well as by ourselves.

Question 16 (2 points)

In an experiment by Brewer and Treyens (1981), participants waited in an academic office and were later asked to recall what was in the office. What do the results of this experiment suggest about memory?

Question 16 options:

Remembering is guided by schematic and prior knowledge.

Remembering objects is easier than remembering the exact location of the objects.

Remembering involves explicitly searching through semantic information.

Remembering requires repeated exposure to a situation in order to focus on details.

Question 17 (2 points)

In an experiment discussed in the chapter, members of Group A were asked to read a passage. Members of Group B were asked to read the same passage but were given a prologue that helped their understanding of the passage. When given a recall test

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Group A could recall only the names of the characters in the passage, as the members did not understand its context.

Group A recalled less of the passage but made the same number of intrusion errors as Group B.

Group B recalled more of the passage but made more intrusion errors than Group A.

Group A recalled less of the passage and made more intrusion errors than Group B.

Question 18 (2 points)

Will has been to the zoo many times, usually with his family but also once on a school field trip. When Will tries to remember the field trip, his recollection is

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unlikely to include much perceptual information.

likely to include elements imported from memories of other zoo trips.

likely to be highly accurate in its details.

unlikely to be influenced by schematic knowledge.

Question 19 (2 points

Which of the following statements best describes the role of memory connections with respect to “transplant errors” between two different memories?

Question 19 options:

Increased memory connections eliminate people’s vulnerability to making “transplant errors” because the memories are more easily consolidated as two separate episodes.

Decreased memory connections increase people’s vulnerability to making “transplant errors” because fewer memory connections makes it harder to differentiate autobiographical from non-autobiographical memories.

Increased memory connections reduce people’s vulnerability to making “transplant errors” because the more the memory connections become intertwined with another, the more distinct the two memories become.

Increased memory connections increase people’s vulnerability to making “transplant errors” because increased linkage makes it more difficult to determine the “boundary” between the two different episodes.

Question 20 (2 points)

Memory schemas, or schemata, serve as representations of our __________ knowledge.

Question 20 options:

specific, or explicit

innate, or inborn

semantic, or generic

episodic, or autobiographical

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