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