1. Julius is determined to remember everything that happened on his trip abroad. The first step that he must take

 is to  A. encode the information.  B. maintain the information. 

C. store the information. D. Retrieve the information.

2. As Bernardo sits back listening to music, the music is being encoded into his memory with which type of

code?               A. Acoustic B. Visual C. Semantic  D. Retrieval

"I remember when," usually precedes the recollection of ________ memories, whereas, "I know that,"

usually precedes the recollection of ________ memories. 

Knowing what sequence of actions to take in order to construct a picket fence requires what type of memory? 

The unintentional influence of prior experiences on a memory of an event that one personally attended

            involves           

A way of remembering that involves relating new information to old knowledge already stored in long-term

 memory, is called

In the parallel distributed processing (PDP) model of memory, units of knowledge are remembered when

Roger and Amanda go out to see a movie. Amanda tells Roger during the film, "The reason we perceive

 smooth motion on the screen is because each image is held in memory long enough to allow our eyes to

fixate again." What kind of memory is Amanda talking about? 

Information is most often encoded into short-term memory using __ coding, and into long-term memory

 using __ coding.  A. acoustic; semantic  B. acoustic; visual  C. semantic; acoustic  D. semantic; visual

What does the "'magic number' of seven plus or minus two" refer to? 

The Brown-Peterson procedure is used to measure the

When features of the environment are encoded along with information, it is easier to recall the information

 in the same location that it was originally learned. This describes the phenomenon known as

Sometimes we are able to recall only partial, or incomplete, information from long-term memory. One such

example, that does not involve brain damage, is   

Research has shown that when a crime eyewitness speaks with confidence, he is likely to be

One discovery that was made using Ebbinghaus' 'method of savings' is the realization that

When new information prevents a person from remembering something learned in the past, the forgetting is

due to   A. decay B. proactive interference  C. repression  D. retroactive interference

Research on motivated forgetting has shown that people are more likely to forget ________ events than  __

 events.             A. important; trivial  B. solitary; group  C. unpleasant; pleasant  D. visual; aural

Lately, Peter noticed that grandfather was having trouble remembering the names his family. His doctor

suspects that the memory problems might mean that he is in the early stages of Alzheimer's. If the doctor

is correct, then Peter's grandfather's brain might be deficient in neurons that use which of the following neurotransmitters?         A. Acetylcholine B. Dopamine C. Glutamate D. Norepinephrine

What are mnemonics?

Danica is going to read a chapter from her text using the PQ4R method. She opens her book and flips

through the chapter noting topic headings and italicized words. Which step of the PQ4R has Danica completed?

A. Preview       B. Question      C. Read           D. Reflect

Judy, the new teller, was so terrified during the robbery, that she encoded only acoustic information.

 Afterwards, when the police questioned her, all she could say was, "I don't remember," until they asked,

Your memory of what you did on prom night is stored as which type of memory?

Gillian asks Eddie to show her how to play one of his guitar solos. At first, Eddie attempts to explain every

finger and hand movement involved. As he proceeds, he becomes more and more frustrated. Although

he knows the guitar solo well, he finds it difficult to put this knowledge into words. Eddie ends up just playing the part for Gillian and asking her to try to imitate him. The guitar solo was most likely encoded as what type of memory?   A. Episodic  B. Semantic  C. Procedural  D. Acoustic

Glenn likes to watch nature documentaries. While watching one about the mating habits of the octopus, He

 was reminded of his trip to Mardi Gras 2 years earlier. Glenn's involuntary recollection is an example of 

Both Lenny and Squiggy have a vocabulary test tomorrow. Lenny passively reads his list of words over and

over again. Squiggy arranges the words in the list to tell a story and practices using each word in a

sentence. Which type of rehearsal is Lenny using? Which type is Squiggy using?

Mr. Herrera told his students that the test would include multiple-choice items. The main items were

multiple choice, but Mr. Herrera added an essay item for extra credit. According to the transfer-appropriate processing model, how should Mr. Herrera's students do on the essay item?

Rachel calls her husband Ted at his office to ask him to pick up a few things at the store on the way home.

She rattles off a list of twenty-five items. The two then say good-bye and hang up. Ted reaches for pencil and paper. How many of the twenty-five items should he be able to write down from memory without chunking?   A. Three to five   B. Five to nine   C. Twelve to sixteen  D. Twenty to twenty-five

Merle was asked to remember the following list of numbers: 1, 7, 7, 6, 1, 8, 6, 5, 1, 9, 1, 8, 1, 9, 4, 2. She

was able to do this because she grouped them this way: 1776, 1865, 1918, 1942. What method did Merle

use to remember the list of numbers?                                                                                        

After studying the list in his history book, Bob tried to write down the names of all the American

presidents. He was able to recall only 20 of them. In accordance with the serial position curve, the ones

he remembered were               

Rachel calls her husband Ted at his office to ask him to pick up a few things at the store on the way home.

She rattles off a list of twenty-five items. The two then say good-bye and hang up. Ted reaches for pencil and paper and is able to remember the first several items on the grocery list, which is an example of    A. the primacy effect  B. acoustic coding.  C. the recency effect   D. semantic coding

The items you are working on now are testing which memory process?  

Chris, who was born and raised in Tennessee, went away to college in Illinois. When he returned to his

parents' house, he was amazed at all the childhood memories that came to mind. Chris's remembering is an example of   

Last month, Roger got drunk and misplaced his glasses. He couldn't find them until today when he came

home slightly inebriated and remembered exactly where he had put them. The fact that he was able to

find them after drinking but not while he was sober demonstrates

Amanda was telling Consuela about a movie she had seen when Consuela asked who starred in the movie.

Amanda became frustrated because even though she could describe the actor, she could not think of his

name. Amanda is experiencing

In court, the defense attorney addressed the witness with: "There was a hammer lying on the ground. Did

you see it?" Research has shown that if there was no hammer, the witness is most likely to answer:

Greg studied French in HS. When he went to college, he decided to study Spanish. He found the class very

difficult because he kept using French vocabulary words and French verb endings. This is an example of

In the Fall semester, Professor Cole managed to remember the names of all 44 students in his class. Then,

when Spring semester came, he was able to remember the names of 42 new students. One day, while strolling on campus, he ran into one of the students from the Fall. No matter how hard he tried, he could not retrieve the  name. All he kept coming up with were the names of Spring students. His inability to remember the old names is probably due to  

Koji was accidentally struck on the head. At first, he seemed to be all right. After a while, it became

apparent that, although he remembered events leading up to the accident, he had no memory of what

happened after the accident. Koji's condition is an example of

Instead of repeating, "Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto" to remember

the planets, Mary says to herself, "Man very early made jars stand up nearly perfect." Mary is using

First day of school, when the art teacher dictated the list of supplies that they would need to get for class,

Harrison realized that he didn't have pen or paper for writing them down. Instead, he visualized each item in a different part of his house. For instance, in dining room, he imagined a vase on the table filled with #2 pencils instead of flowers; in living room, the couch had 4 sketch pads instead of cushions; in bathroom, there was a gum eraser in soap dish; and in the kitchen, the silverware drawer was filled with assorted brushes. Harrison was using a mnemonic device called