Question 1

Which of the following is an example of episodic memory?

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A)  remembering how to ride a bicycle
B)  remembering the name of your elementary school
C)  remembering what happened your first day of elementary school
D)  remembering how to shoot a basketball

Question 2

Some therapists claim that they can help their clients to recover long-repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse.Many other psychologists are skeptical of this claim,largely because

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A)  just suggesting something may cause people to report a memory of an event that in fact never happened.
B)  research has shown that people can recover painful repressed memories only through the use of hypnosis.
C)  children must be at least eight or nine years old before they can begin to use repression.
D)  the actual prevalence of childhood sexual abuse is known to be far rarer than the results that these therapists report.

Question 3

Isabella is read a list of the following words: carrot,cucumber,squash,green beans,zucchini and broccoli.Name the words which would most likely be remembered due to primacy and recency effects and explain why.Also,explain the phenomena that might lead Isabella to state that she had heard the word cauliflower.

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Primacy would lead Isabella to remember ...

Question 4

According to the principle of encoding specificity,if you want to do well on a particular exam you should

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A)  study in a variety of places.
B)  make your study conditions as similar as possible to the conditions under which you will be tested.
C)  study at different times of the day.
D)  try to study as much material as possible the night before the exam.

Question 5

Individuals described as having a "high capacity" of working memory tend to also do well on tasks measuring mental rotation,visuospatial planning,and sequence learning.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

In order to be sure that the items on the lists that he learned would be unfamiliar,Ebbinghaus

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A)  learned lists of foreign words.
B)  spelled all the words backwards.
C)  invented nonsense syllables.
D)  had his students make up the lists.

Question 7

John spends ten hours studying for a test,and he spreads those ten hours over several days.Julie spends ten hours studying for the same test,but she studies all ten hours the day before the test.Because they spent an equal amount of time studying,they should get about the same scores on the test (assuming they are students of equal ability).

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

People read a list of words including PENDULUM.Later they are shown something like __E__D__L__M and they try to fill in the missing letters.Most get the correct answer (which is PENDULUM) .What is unusual about this method of testing memory?

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A)  People who can recite the list of words perfectly often fail to show any memory by this fill-in-the-blanks test.
B)  People frequently show signs of memory according to this test although they are not able to recall the words on the list.
C)  People actually show a stronger memory on this test the longer they wait after originally reading the list.
D)  People often fill in the blanks incorrectly and then insist that the incorrect words were actually on the original list.

Question 9

One difference between short-term memory and long-term memory is that short-term memory

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A)  depends more heavily on retrieval cues.
B)  is less likely to be forgotten.
C)  has a more limited capacity.
D)  is visual rather than auditory.

Question 10

Which type of memory was least impaired in patient H.M.?

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A)  procedural
B)  episodic
C)  explicit
D)  declarative

Question 11

If you are given an English word and asked to give the French equivalent,your memory is being tested by ____________________.
cued recall

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The answer of If you are given an English word...

Question 12

When witnesses choose a suspect from a lineup,they sometimes identify the wrong person.To minimize such errors,psychologists recommend the following change in procedure:

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A)  Present the suspects sequentially (one at a time) .
B)  Tell the witness which suspect the police think is probably guilty.
C)  Provide more encouragement.
D)  Have several witnesses discuss the choice among themselves.

Question 13

Suppose you were given a list of names that included (among others)people who had been in your fourth-grade class.If you were asked to check off the names of those who were in your class,this would be a ____________________ test of memory.
recognition

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The answer of Suppose you were given a list of...

Question 14

Individuals with amnesia typically have problems with __________ memories while __________ memories remain intact.

Accepted Answer

A)  declarative;explicit
B)  implicit;declarative
C)  procedural;declarative
D)  declarative;procedural

Question 15

Professor Tryhard tries to learn the names of all her students every semester.As the years go by,she finds that she learns the names just as easily but forgets them faster.Why?

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A)  retrograde amnesia
B)  state-dependent memory
C)  proactive interference
D)  retroactive interference

Question 16

Damage to the prefrontal cortex produces amnesia that is similar in many ways to amnesia caused by damage to the

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A)  corpus callosum.
B)  hippocampus.
C)  occipital lobes.
D)  brain stem.

Question 17

A confabulation is

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A)  the essential meaning of a stored memory.
B)  a method for remembering long lists of unrelated items.
C)  a guess based mostly on out-of-date information.
D)  a skill that is learned,despite the fact that the person does not remember ever practicing the skill.

Question 18

Amnesia is a

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A)  loss of sensation.
B)  loss of memory.
C)  mnemonic device.
D)  memory for sensory events.

Question 19

When you read the word "pop" on a list,you think of it as something that might happen to a balloon.Later when someone asks you what word on the list refers to a kind of drink,you do not think of the word "pop." Why not?

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A)  procedural memory
B)  serial-order effect
C)  anterograde amnesia
D)  encoding specificity principle

Question 20

Participants in certain studies viewed a videotape or a series of slides.Then someone asked some misleading questions,such as "Did the children get on the school bus?" (when there was no bus) .The original studies most clearly documented which of the following conclusions?

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A)  The misleading questions can cause people to develop inaccurate memories of what they viewed.
B)  The misleading questions have temporary effects that disappear within a few minutes
C)  The misleading questions have more powerful effects on adults than on children.
D)  When confronted with confusing information,people's first impulse is usually correct.

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Which of the following is an example of episodic memory?

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Professor Tryhard tries to learn the names of all her students every semester.As the years go by,she finds that she learns the names just as easily but forgets them faster.Why?

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People read a list of words including PENDULUM.Later they are shown something like EDLM and they try to fill in the missing letters.Most get the correct answer (which is PENDULUM) .What is unusual about this method of testing memory?

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Which type of memory was least impaired in patient H.M.?

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A confabulation is

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Participants in certain studies viewed a videotape or a series of slides.Then someone asked some misleading questions,such as "Did the children get on the school bus?" (when there was no bus) .The original studies most clearly documented which of the following conclusions?

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Individuals with amnesia typically have problems with memories while memories remain intact.

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In order to be sure that the items on the lists that he learned would be unfamiliar,Ebbinghaus

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Individuals described as having a "high capacity" of working memory tend to also do well on tasks measuring mental rotation,visuospatial planning,and sequence learning.

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When you read the word "pop" on a list,you think of it as something that might happen to a balloon.Later when someone asks you what word on the list refers to a kind of drink,you do not think of the word "pop." Why not?

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