Question 1

In proactive interference, old memories act to

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A)   cause us to forget other old memories.
B)   distort our sensory memory.
C)   add additional information to permanent external memory.
D)   reverse the order of items in LTM.
E)   block our ability to learn new information.F) C) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 2

The memory process of ________ involves the location and recovery of information from your memory.

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A)   retrieval
B)   storage
C)   access
D)   processing
E)   encodingF) A) and E)
G) B) and E)

Question 3

Your ability to remember where you were the morning of September 11, 2001, is an example of a(n)

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A)   flashbulb memory.
B)   semantic memory.
C)   procedural memory.
D)   implicit memory.
E)   sensory memory.F) B) and D)
G) B) and C)

Question 4

The word "mnemonics" comes from a ________ word meaning ________.

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A)   French; memory
B)   Spanish; improve
C)   Greek; remember
D)   Hebrew; trick
E)   Arabic; methodF) C) and E)
G) B) and D)

Question 5

The TOT phenomenon occurs when

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A)   a flood of memories enter consciousness.
B)   memories interfere with one another.
C)   the order of presentation impacts recall.
D)   you know a word but cannot name it.
E)   a person strongly believes thatF) A) and C)
G) A) and D)

Question 6

Personal facts and memories of one's personal history are parts of

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A)   episodic memory.
B)   procedural memories.
C)   declarative memories.
D)   semantic memory.
E)   implicit memory.F) D) and E)
G) A) and E)

Question 7

Remembering your first day of college classes is an example of ________ memories.

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A)   episodic
B)   semantic
C)   working
D)   implicit
E)   explicitF) A) and B)
G) B) and C)

Question 8

When given a list of items to remember, you are more likely to remember

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A)   the items in the beginning better than those in the middle or at the end.
B)   the items in the middle more than those at the beginning or at the end.
C)   the items at the end more than those in the middle or at the beginning of the list.
D)   the items at the beginning and at the end more than those in the middle of the list.
E)   only those items in which you have a dedicated, personal interest.F) A) and B)
G) B) and C)

Question 9

Moishe can remember only the first two items and the last two items on the grocery list that his wife just read to him over the phone. The other five items in between are gone. This is an example of the

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A)   encoding specificity effect.
B)   serial position effect.
C)   TOT effect.
D)   reintegrative effect.
E)   priming effect.F) B) and C)
G) C) and E)

Question 10

________ occurs when memories are retrievable, but they are associated with the wrong time, place, or person.

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A)   Misattribution
B)   Interference
C)   Bias
D)   Priming
E)   RepressionF) B) and D)
G) C) and D)

Question 11

If you are trying to remember the names of all the U.S. presidents, the serial position effect would predict that you will have difficulty

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A)   remembering more than about seven (plus or minus two)  of them.
B)   recognizing the names of the presidents on a list.
C)   recalling the earliest presidents.
D)   recalling the most recent presidents.
E)   recalling the presidents in the middle of the list.F) A) and D)
G) D) and E)

Question 12

One of the most common causes of transience comes from ___________ when one item prevents us from forming a robust memory for another item.

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A)   transduction
B)   transference
C)   an engram
D)   interference
E)   misattributionF) A) and B)
G) None of the above

Question 13

In the levels-of-processing model of memory, information that gets processed at a ________ level (such as accessing the meaning of a word or phrase)  is more likely to be retained longer and form a stronger memory than information that is processed at a ________ level (such as the visual characteristics of a word.

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A)   deeper; shallower
B)   shallower; deeper
C)   higher; lower
D)   lower; higher
E)   semantic; episodicF) A) and E)
G) A) and C)

Question 14

A temporary failure to recall where you left your keys is most likely due to

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A)   transience.
B)   proactive interference.
C)   misattribution.
D)   absent-mindedness.
E)   the TOT phenomenon.F) C) and D)
G) A) and E)

Question 15

You are learning a list of items for a test by relating the items to each other and to information that you already have stored in memory. Which type of rehearsal are you using?

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A)   condensed
B)   permanent
C)   maintenance
D)   elaborative
E)   proactiveF) A) and E)
G) C) and D)

Question 16

Were sensory memories to last longer than normal,

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A)   we would need more working memory.
B)   our senses would not work together.
C)   we would become overloaded by the amount of incoming information.
D)   it would ultimately destroy cortical neurons.
E)   sensory memory would be able to hold more information.F) B) and D)
G) A) and C)

Question 17

Hermann Ebbinghaus used ________ to study his long-term retention of verbal material.

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A)   elaboration
B)   maintenance rehearsal
C)   a savings method
D)   elaborative rehearsal
E)   primingF) None of the above
G) A) and B)

Question 18

The observation that depressed people tend to favor recall of depressing memories is known as ________ memory.

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A)   sociopathic
B)   anterograde
C)   mood-congruent
D)   retrograde
E)   encoding specificityF) A) and D)
G) B) and D)

Question 19

By looking over the chapter outline, the summary, the Key Questions, and Core Concepts, you form the impression of the overall meaning of the material. The details are later associated with this overall impression. This is known as

Accepted Answer

A)   distributed learning.
B)   the whole method.
C)   the method of loci.
D)   overlearning.
E)   repression.F) None of the above
G) A) and B)

Question 20

The rapidly passing scenery you see out the window is first stored in

Accepted Answer

A)   echoic memory.
B)   iconic memory.
C)   long-term memory.
D)   working memory.
E)   nociceptive memory.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Exam 5: Memory

The word "mnemonics" comes from a ________ word meaning ________.

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If you are trying to remember the names of all the U.S. presidents, the serial position effect would predict that you will have difficulty

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The observation that depressed people tend to favor recall of depressing memories is known as ________ memory.

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The rapidly passing scenery you see out the window is first stored in

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The memory process of ________ involves the location and recovery of information from your memory.

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A temporary failure to recall where you left your keys is most likely due to

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Personal facts and memories of one's personal history are parts of

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Moishe can remember only the first two items and the last two items on the grocery list that his wife just read to him over the phone. The other five items in between are gone. This is an example of the

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________ occurs when memories are retrievable, but they are associated with the wrong time, place, or person.

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Hermann Ebbinghaus used ________ to study his long-term retention of verbal material.

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Remembering your first day of college classes is an example of ________ memories.

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When given a list of items to remember, you are more likely to remember

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You are learning a list of items for a test by relating the items to each other and to information that you already have stored in memory. Which type of rehearsal are you using?

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By looking over the chapter outline, the summary, the Key Questions, and Core Concepts, you form the impression of the overall meaning of the material. The details are later associated with this overall impression. This is known as

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The TOT phenomenon occurs when

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In proactive interference, old memories act to

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One of the most common causes of transience comes from ___________ when one item prevents us from forming a robust memory for another item.

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