Question 1

Suppose you were given a list of names that included (among others)people who had been in your fourth-grade class.If you were asked to check off the names of those who were in your class,this would be a ____________________ test of memory.

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Question 2

Your memory of an event that happened on your first day of high school is both a ____________________ memory and an ____________________ memory.

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Question 3

Free recall,cued recall,recognition,and savings are tests of ____________________ memory.
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Question 4

Remembering how to play the piano is an example of ____________________ memory.

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Question 5

If you meet someone and use her correct name immediately but cannot remember it a half-hour later,the name probably was in your ____________________.

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Question 6

According to the ____________________ model of memory,human memory is most analogous to a computer.

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Question 7

If asked to tell your social security number (without looking it up),you are being asked to perform a ____________________ memory test.

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Question 8

As an eyewitness to a crime,you are asked to identify the suspect out of a lineup.This is an example of a/an ____________________ test of memory.

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Question 9

The central executive,phonological loop,and visuospatial sketchpad are all components of what has been called ____________________ memory.

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Question 10

An association that facilitates remembering information in long-term memory is known as a/an ____________________ cue.

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Question 11

You memorize a list of paired associates including "stone-rock." Later someone asks you what word on the list refers to a kind of music,and you do not think of the word "rock." This result is an example of the ____________________ principle.

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Question 12

Increased recall at the beginning and end of a list of information suggests ____________________ and ____________________ effects,respectively.

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Question 13

People memorize a list of words best if they think about each word and form as many associations as possible with each word.This is known as the ____________________ principle.

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Question 14

Research on children who have experienced traumatic events (e.g. ,witnessed the murder of their parents,been kidnapped)indicates that memories for traumatic events are most likely to be dissociated.

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Research indicates that while some individuals may experience dissociation or fragmented memories following traumatic events, the majority of people tend to have vivid, detailed memories of traumatic experiences. Dissociation is not the most common response to trauma across all individuals.

Question 15

Many clinicians now use the term ____________________ instead of repression,to refer to a memory that is stored but cannot be retrieved.

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Question 16

The serial-order effect refers to the tendency to remember the ____________________ items on a list better than all others.

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Question 17

Memory of a particular event in your life is ____________________;memory for factual information is ____________________.

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Question 18

Because the concept of "short-term memory" seems to some to be incomplete and misleading,current researchers often substitute the term ____________________ memory.

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Question 19

One conclusion that emerges from all the research on brain damage and amnesia is that we clearly have different types of memory.

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Research on brain damage and amnesia has shown that there are various types of memory such as short-term, long-term, explicit, implicit, episodic, procedural, and semantic memory.

Question 20

If you are given an English word and asked to give the French equivalent,your memory is being tested by ____________________.

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Quiz 7: Memory