Deck 6: Section 5: Memory

Question 1

Of the sins of memory, faulty eyewitness testimony MOST likely is the result of:

A)absentmindedness.
B)transience.
C)misattribution.
D)blocking.

Answer 1

misattribution.

Question 2

A business person has meetings all week. She finds that each week is a blur. By Friday, she can't remember the meetings that she had earlier in the week. This illustrates:

A)proactive interference.
B)retroactive interference.
C)absentmindedness.
D)blocking.

Answer 2

retroactive interference.

Question 3

Dr. Gruber is running a memory experiment using fMRI. Dr. Gruber notices that the occipital lobe is particularly active during the encoding task. Participants are most likely using what type of encoding?

A)semantic
B)organizational
C)visual imagery
D)elaborative

Answer 3

visual imagery

Question 4

Transience describes how our memories _____ detail over time and, as stored memories, become more _____.

A)lose; specific
B)lose; general
C)gain; flexible
D)gain; specific

Question 5

Nate is going to the grocery store to pick up a few things. He decides not to write a list and instead repeats the eight items he intends to buy over and over in his head on the way to the store. This is an example of:

A)blocking.
B)chunking.
C)rehearsal.
D)consistency bias.

Question 6

The persistence of intrusive memories, such as flashbulb memories, is often a result of:

A)highly emotional experiences, which lead to more vivid and long-lasting memories.
B)nonemotional experiences, which lead to more generally based memories and are susceptible to suggestibility.
C)overactivity in the occipital lobes.
D)underactivity in the occipital lobes.

Question 7

Krissy's _____ becomes active when she tries to recall what she received for Christmas when she was 10 years old. Successful remembering of this information, however, requires the activity of the _____.

A)hippocampus; visual cortex
B)frontal lobe; temporal lobe
C)hippocampus; temporal lobe
D)frontal lobe; hippocampus

Question 8

Twenty-five years from now, Breanna is on Jeopardy. One of the answers is "This person was the 44th president of the United States of America." Breanna says confidently, "Who was Barack Obama?" and is correct. To "answer" the "question," Breanna has to use what part of her memory?

A)episodic
B)semantic
C)procedural
D)implicit

Question 9

Long-term memory can be kept for _____ and has a(n) _____ capacity.

A)hours to years; limited
B)hours to years; unlimited
C)a few hours; limited
D)a minimum of 1 year; unlimited

Question 10

Jenny remembers her 16th birthday party vividly and recalls how her parents surprised her with a brand new car. This is an example of:

A)implicit memory.
B)explicit memory.
C)semantic memory.
D)sensory memory.

Question 11

In light of research findings on _____, it probably is best to study for your psychology exam at a desk in a quiet room.

A)the encoding specificity principle
B)priming
C)long-term storage
D)transience

Question 12

Casey just heard that Fargo was the most populous city in North Dakota. She will be MOST likely to remember this information if she:

A)relates it to a popular movie she has seen with the title of Fargo.
B)stares at the location of the city on a map for one minute.
C)highlights the information in a textbook.
D)repeats the city name to herself ten times.

Question 13

Remembering the what, where, and when information about personal events that occurred in your life is a type of:

A)episodic memory.
B)semantic memory.
C)procedural memory.
D)implicit memory.

Question 14

Remembering how to ride a skateboard, even though it has been a few years since you were last on one, is a subtype of _____ memory termed _____.

A)episodic; procedural memory
B)procedural; episodic memory
C)procedural; state-dependent retrieval
D)implicit; procedural memory

Question 15

A new acquaintance at a party gives you a telephone number so you can call for a date. About how long do you have to write down the number before your short-term memory store is depleted?

A)1-5 seconds
B)15-20 seconds
C)30-45 seconds
D)1 minute

Question 16

One day while gardening, Greg tripped over a coil of wound-up hose and fell face first on the pavement. He suffered damage to his hippocampal region, and while recovering in the hospital, he consistently greeted his friends and family as though he was seeing them again for the first time in ages, and he often forgot what he was doing during the day. However, he could still recall, without effort, adventures from his teenage years. Greg likely has:

A)retrograde amnesia.
B)anterograde amnesia.
C)long-term potentiation.
D)short-term potentiation.