Question 1

The hippocampus is to ____ memory as the cerebellum is to ____ memory.

Accepted Answer

A)  procedural; explicit
B)  declarative: motor skill
C)  declarative; explicit
D)  procedural; motor skill

Question 2

Traditionally,memory has been described as having ____ distinct stage(s) of storage.

Accepted Answer

A)  three
B)  two
C)  one
D)  four

Question 3

When studying recall of visual information,the serial position curves for younger and older subjects would most likely be ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  different for items placed in memory both first and last
B)  very similar
C)  different for items placed in memory last
D)  different for items placed in memory first

Question 4

Maintenance rehearsal involves ____ processing and elaborative rehearsal involves ____ processing.

Accepted Answer

A)  recall; recognition
B)  implicit; explicit
C)  proactive; retroactive
D)  a shallow level of; a deep level of

Question 5

The SQ3R memory method stands for ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  study, quiz, rehearse, revisit, rest
B)  survey, question, read, recite, review
C)  search and quiz three times, and then review once
D)  study qualitatively for three days and then rest for a day before taking the test

Question 6

According to the three stage model of memory,____.

Accepted Answer

A)  forgetting only occurs at the long-term memory stage
B)  information is held for up to 30 seconds in sensory memory
C)  short-term memory holds a vast amount of information for up to several hours
D)  we keep all permanent memories in our long-term memory

Question 7

Activity in the ____ has been shown to coincide with the overnight memory consolidation of newly learned motor skills.

Accepted Answer

A)  amygdala
B)  hippocampus
C)  hypothalamus
D)  ventricles

Question 8

Jenny has recently married and taken her husband's last name.To her dismay,her friends from high school keep calling her by her maiden name despite her repeated requests to use her married name.  Jenny's friends appear to be experiencing ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  retroactive interference
B)  proactive interference
C)  repression
D)  memory decay

Question 9

Describe the traditional three-stage memory model.

Accepted Answer

The traditional memory model is arranged...

Question 10

The two subtypes of declarative memory are ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  procedural memory and conditioned memory
B)  semantic memory and episodic memory
C)  retroactive memory and proactive memory
D)  implicit memory and explicit memory

Question 11

Which type of interference leads to difficulty remembering new information?

Accepted Answer

A)  retroactive
B)  proactive
C)  repression
D)  cue-dependent

Question 12

If you did not have any episodic memory ability,you would not be able to remember ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  events and experiences
B)  skills or procedures
C)  facts and information
D)  important historical dates

Question 13

Your friend asks you if it is possible in the three stages model of memory for memories to go directly from sensory memory to long-term memory.How should you answer?

Accepted Answer

A)  The three stages model does not address this issue. So, who knows?
B)  The model predicts that this can happen, but only in rare instances.
C)  No, the model says that information has to travel in sequence from one stage to the next.
D)  Sure, the three stages model accounts for this common occurrence.

Question 14

When you momentarily forget a friend's name,the function of memory that has failed is the ____ function.

Accepted Answer

A)  storage
B)  reproduction
C)  retrieval
D)  encoding

Question 15

When you cannot retrieve a memory because you are using the wrong probe,you are experiencing ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  cue-dependent forgetting
B)  asynchrony failure
C)  probe misalignment
D)  interference

Question 16

Which statement is TRUE of long-term memory?

Accepted Answer

A)  Long-term memories are most often encoded in a semantic form.
B)  Long-term memories are stored randomly in the brainstem.
C)  All long-term memories are encoded only in semantic form.
D)  Although the capacity of long-term memory is large, it does fill up occasionally.

Question 17

The duration of short-term memory is about ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  7 ± 2 seconds
B)  2 hours
C)  2 seconds
D)  30 seconds

Question 18

A person who has lost the ability to form new declarative memories has ____ amnesia.

Accepted Answer

A)  retrograde
B)  subconditional
C)  anterograde
D)  subsequential

Question 19

Because our long-term memory uses schemata to store information,____.

Accepted Answer

A)  long-term memory will remain intact forever even if we cannot retrieve it
B)  the information is highly organized
C)  the information is subject to forgetting if not rehearsed
D)  recalling visual information is easier than acoustic information

Question 20

Suppose that tonight,you are able to recall the name of a new song you heard on the radio today.As such,the memory will have been stored in your ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  visuospatial sketch pad
B)  echoic memory
C)  short-term memory
D)  long-term memory

Exam 7: Memory

If you did not have any episodic memory ability,you would not be able to remember ____.

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When you momentarily forget a friend's name,the function of memory that has failed is the ____ function.

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Your friend asks you if it is possible in the three stages model of memory for memories to go directly from sensory memory to long-term memory.How should you answer?

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The duration of short-term memory is about ____.

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Activity in the ____ has been shown to coincide with the overnight memory consolidation of newly learned motor skills.

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The two subtypes of declarative memory are ____.

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Jenny has recently married and taken her husband's last name.To her dismay,her friends from high school keep calling her by her maiden name despite her repeated requests to use her married name. Jenny's friends appear to be experiencing ____.

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When you cannot retrieve a memory because you are using the wrong probe,you are experiencing ____.

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The hippocampus is to ____ memory as the cerebellum is to ____ memory.

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According to the three stage model of memory,____.

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The SQ3R memory method stands for ____.

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Describe the traditional three-stage memory model.

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When studying recall of visual information,the serial position curves for younger and older subjects would most likely be ____.

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Maintenance rehearsal involves ____ processing and elaborative rehearsal involves ____ processing.

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Which type of interference leads to difficulty remembering new information?

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A person who has lost the ability to form new declarative memories has ____ amnesia.

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Suppose that tonight,you are able to recall the name of a new song you heard on the radio today.As such,the memory will have been stored in your ____.

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Because our long-term memory uses schemata to store information,____.

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Traditionally,memory has been described as having ____ distinct stage(s) of storage.

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Which statement is TRUE of long-term memory?

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