Question 1

Semantic memory is best defined as:

Accepted Answer

Semantic memory is a type of long-term memory that stores general knowledge about the world, including facts, concepts, and language.

Question 2

According to the neural network model of memory, if a small portion of your brain is removed for medical reasons, your memory might:

Accepted Answer

The neural network model of memory suggests that memories are stored across a network of neurons. Removing a small portion of the brain might disrupt some connections and nodes, potentially affecting memory retrieval or storage, but not necessarily leading to a complete loss of memories.

Question 3

Troy knows how to tie his own shoes and can do it almost without thinking about it as he ties them. Troy remembers the first time he learned to tie his shoes by himself. For Troy, the memory of that first time is a(n) .

Accepted Answer

Episodic memory involves the recollection of specific events, situations, and experiences, such as the first time Troy learned to tie his shoes.

Question 4

Troy knows how to tie his own shoes and can do it almost without thinking about it as he ties them. The steps that Troy executes to tie his shoes is part of his _.

Accepted Answer

Procedural memory is a type of implicit memory that involves the ability to perform tasks without conscious awareness, such as tying shoes.

Question 5

Your memory for what happened to you on a childhood trip to Disneyland would best be considered an example of:

Accepted Answer

Episodic memory is the type of memory that involves the recollection of specific events, situations, and experiences, such as a childhood trip to Disneyland.

Question 6

A memory researcher claims that a concept such as "dog" is triggered by the simultaneous firing of nodes #8, #47, and #123 in a network, but if node #8 is simultaneously triggered with nodes #9 and #301, an entirely different concept appears in the mind. The views of this researcher are most consistent with the theory of
Memory.

Accepted Answer

The researcher's description aligns with the neural network theory, which suggests that concepts are represented by patterns of activation across a network of nodes or neurons.

Question 7

This

Accepted Answer

Recognition test is a type of memory test in which participants are presented with a list of items and asked to identify which items they have seen before.

Question 8

Suppose that you are shown a list that includes the words "plate," "tree," and "glass." Several months later, you are shown many short word stems such as "PL ," "TR ________ " and "GL _." Even though you have essentially forgotten about
The first list you saw, you are more likely to complete the word stems with "PLate," "TRee," and "GLass" than other people who were not shown the initial list. These types of memory tests are used to measure memory and they are called _.

Accepted Answer

Priming tasks measure implicit memory by showing how prior exposure to a stimulus influences response to a later stimulus, even without conscious recollection of the initial exposure.

Question 9

Betsy went to a restaurant last night with some other first year students from her dorm. Although Betsy had never been to this particular restaurant, she knew exactly how to be seated, order, eat, and pay the bill. In her long-term memory, Betsy had a(n) _ for restaurants.

Accepted Answer

Betsy had a schema for restaurants, which is a cognitive framework or concept that helps organize and interpret information based on past experiences.

Question 10

According to the neural network theory of memory, each concept is represented:

Accepted Answer

In the neural network theory of memory, concepts are represented by specific patterns of activation across a network of nodes, rather than being stored in a single location or node.

Question 11

All of the following were mentioned as ways of measuring explicit memory EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

Priming tasks are a way of measuring implicit memory, not explicit memory.

Question 12

The two subcategories of declarative memory are:

Accepted Answer

Declarative memory is divided into episodic memory, which involves personal experiences, and semantic memory, which involves general knowledge and facts.

Question 13

Eric is taking his psychology exam which contains multiple-choice questions. In order to answer the questions, Eric's strategy is to actively search his memory for the answers and, as such, he relies on his memory.

Accepted Answer

Explicit memory involves the conscious recall of facts and information, which aligns with Eric's strategy of actively searching his memory for answers during the exam.

Question 14

The amnesia patient H.M. was able to correctly perform a mirror-tracing task, but he had no recollection of ever having learned it. This means that we would classify his memory for this task as:

Accepted Answer

H.M.'s ability to perform the task without recalling learning it indicates implicit memory, which involves skills and tasks that can be performed without conscious recollection.

Question 15

In the case of the amnesia patient H.M. presented in the text, it was found that:

Accepted Answer

H.M. had his medial temporal lobes removed, which impaired his ability to form new declarative memories (episodic and semantic), but his procedural memory remained intact.

Question 16

After taking the college entrance exam, Sidney was very upset as she drove home. She felt she had done poorly on the exam. The fact that Sidney was able to drive the familiar route home and arrive safely, even though she was so preoccupied thinking about the
Exam is due to her memory.

Accepted Answer

Sidney's ability to drive home safely while preoccupied is due to implicit memory, which involves unconscious skills and tasks, like driving a familiar route.

Question 17

The associative network model asserts that a node in a memory network consists of an idea, a word, or a concept, while the model that argues that a node is physical in nature and does not contain individual units of information is the model.

Accepted Answer

The neural network model suggests that nodes are physical in nature and do not contain individual units of information, unlike the associative network model which considers nodes as ideas, words, or concepts.

Question 18

The idea that a concept in memory is represented by a particular set of nodes and is retrieved when the nodes in that set are activated in parallel belongs to the proposition of memory known as:

Accepted Answer

A neural network represents concepts in memory as patterns of activation across a network of nodes, where retrieval occurs through parallel activation of these nodes.

Question 19

If you were asked right now to list the two different types of declarative memory, this would be an example of what is called a:

Accepted Answer

A recall test requires retrieving information from memory without explicit cues, such as listing types of declarative memory.

Question 20

Classically conditioned responses are to procedural memory as general factual knowledge of the world is to _.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Classically conditioned responses are to procedural memory...

Quiz 8: Memory