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PSY 101-Chapter 8

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Question 1

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The three steps in memory information processing are...
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  • sensing, transducing, perceiving
  • seeing, hearing, storage
  • acquisition, extinction, spontaneous recovery
  • encoding, storage, retrieval

Question 2

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Visual sensory memory is referred to as...
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  • iconic memory
  • echoic memory
  • mnemonic memory
  • semantic memory

Question 3

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Lewis cannot remember the details of the torture he experienced as a prisoner of war. According to Freud, Lewis’ failure to remember these painful memories is an example of...
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  • repression
  • long-term potentiation
  • negative reinforcement
  • flashbulb memory

Question 4

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Studies by Loftus and Palmer, in which people were quizzed about a film of an accident, indicate that...
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  • when quizzed immediately, people can recall very little, due to the stress of witnessing an accident
  • when questioned as little as one day later, their memory was very inaccurate
  • most people had very accurate memories as much as 6 months later
  • people’s recall may easily be affected by misleading information

Question 5

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One way to increase the amount of information in memory is to group it into larger, familiar units. This process is referred to as...
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  • the principle of conservation
  • proactive organization
  • chunking
  • encoding

Question 6

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Kandel and Schwartz have found that when learning occurs, more of the neurotransmitter [blank_start]serotonin[blank_end] is released into synapses.
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  • serotonin
  • cortisol
  • dopamine
  • glucose

Question 7

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Research on memory construction reveals that memories...
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  • are stored as exact copies of experience
  • reflect a person’s biases and assumptions
  • may be chemically transferred from one organism to another
  • even if long term, usually decay within about five years

Question 8

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In a study on context cues, people learned words while on land or when they were underwater. In a later test of recall, those with the best retention had...
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  • learned the words on land, that is, in the more familiar context
  • learned the words underwater, that is, in the more exotic context
  • learned the words and been tested on them in different contexts
  • learned the words and been tested on them in the same context

Question 9

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The spacing effect means that...
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  • distributed study yields better retention than cramming
  • retention is improved when encoding and retrieval are separated by no more than 1 hour
  • learning causes a reduction in the size of the synaptic gap between certain neurons
  • delaying retrieval until memory has consolidated improves recall

Question 10

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Studies demonstrate that learning causes permanent neural changes in the [blank_start]synapses[blank_end] of animals’ neurons.
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  • synapses
  • myelin
  • cell bodies
  • all of these

Question 11

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The basal ganglia of the brain plays a critical role in the formation of...
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  • iconic memory
  • echoic memory
  • implicit memory
  • explicit memory

Question 12

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Memory for skills (e.g., skills learned during infancy) is called...
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  • explicit memory
  • declarative memory
  • prime memory
  • implicit memory

Question 13

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Which of the following describes the typical forgetting curve?
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  • a steady, slow decline in retention over time
  • a steady, rapid decline in retention over time
  • a rapid initial decline in retention becoming stable thereafter
  • a slow initial decline in retention becoming rapid thereafter

Question 14

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Which of the following measures of retention is the least sensitive in triggering retrieval?
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  • recall
  • recognition
  • relearning
  • they are equally sensitive

Question 15

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At your high school reunion you cannot remember the last name of your homeroom teacher. Your failure to remember is most likely the result of...
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  • encoding failure
  • storage failure
  • retrieval failure
  • state-dependent memory

Question 16

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According to the serial position effect, when recalling a list of words you should have the greatest difficulty with those...
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  • at the beginning of the list
  • at the end of the list
  • at the end and in the middle of the list
  • in the middle of the list

Question 17

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Experimenters gave people a list of words to be recalled. When the participants were tested after a delay, the items that were best recalled were those...
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  • at the beginning of the list
  • in the middle of the list
  • at the end of the list
  • at the beginning and end of the list

Question 18

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Which type of word/verbal processing results in the greatest retention?
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  • shallow
  • deep
  • visual
  • auditory

Question 19

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From the list below, which area of the brain is most relevant in the processing of implicit memories?
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  • hippocampus
  • cerebellum
  • hypothalamus
  • amygdala

Question 20

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Repression is theorized to be an example of...
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  • encoding failure
  • memory decay
  • motivated forgetting
  • all of the above

Question 21

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Long-term potentiation (LTP) refers to...
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  • the disruptive influence of old memories on the formations of new memories
  • the disruptive influence of recent memories on the retrieval of old memories
  • our tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with our current mood
  • the increased efficiency of synaptic transmission between certain neurons following learning

Question 22

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Which of the following is the best example of a flashbulb memory?
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  • suddenly remembering to buy bread while standing in the checkout line at the grocery store
  • recalling the name of someone from high school while looking at his or her yearbook snapshot
  • remembering where you were and what you were doing on September 11, 2001, when terrorists crashed planes into the World Trade Center towers.
  • remembering to make an important phone call

Question 23

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Walking through the halls of his high school 10 years after graduation, Tom experienced a flood of old memories. Tom’s experience showed the role of...
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  • iconic memory
  • context effects
  • retroactive interference
  • echoic memory

Question 24

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Amnesia patients typically experience disruption of...
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  • implicit memories
  • explicit memories
  • iconic memories
  • echoic memories

Question 25

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Brad, who suffered damage to the left side of his hippocampus, has trouble remembering...
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  • visual designs
  • locations
  • all nonverbal information
  • verbal information

Question 26

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After finding her old combination lock, Janice can’t remember its combination because she keeps confusing it with the combination of her new lock. She is experiencing...
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  • proactive interference
  • retroactive interference
  • encoding failure
  • storage failure

Question 27

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Being in a bad mood after a hard day of work, Susan could think of nothing positive in her life. This is best explained as an example of...
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  • repression
  • the spacing effect
  • mood-congruent memory
  • shallow processing
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