Chapter 6
When Javier talks about last night's basketball game with his friend Carol over coffee, which of the following internal thoughts reflect Javier's working memory?
"the game was close and exciting"
Which stimulus is most likely to be semantically coded?
a barking dog
Which of the following would be an example of auditory coding in long-term memory?
a song you have heard many times before, repeating over and over in your mind
Which of the following memories would NOT be an example of long-term memory?
acknowledging that you just sat down
Regarding a person's future, episodic memory seems to be ________.
adaptive
Primacy effect is to recency effect as ___ is to ___.
beginning; end
What tool did doctors use to measure the short-term memory capacity of KF following his motorcycle accident?
digit lists
The accuracy of recalling items in a list decreases as the length of the list increases due to which of the following?
distraction
Suppose you recall that you had a pleasant conversation with a cashier the other day when you went to get coffee. This memory should be viewed as primarily being ___.
episodic
What criterion did Tulving use to define the difference between semantic memories and episodic memoires?
experience
Which term best reflects the aspect of memory that people lose with age?
experience
Henry Molaison's inability to form lasting memories was the result of removing which part of his brain?
hippocampus
Ronnie told his friend Sasha, "Last Thursday when it got below freezing and the roads were icy, I went to that new sushi place on Rte 38 for the $12.99 all-you-can-eat special." Which part of Ronnie's autobiographical memory is episodic?
i had dinner at the sushi place
Which of the following statements best reflects Tulving's concept of semantic memory?
i know it
The fact that different types of memory share mechanisms falls under the category of memory ________.
interaction
Which of the following types of exam questions is an example of recognition memory?
multiple-choice
What is the upper limit for holding information in long-term memory?
no limit
Identifying voxels in an fMRI scan that light up when a person sees a photo of a particular scene for the first time is an example of ________.
physiological coding
Political propaganda is an effective tool to manage and control the public due to the effect of ________.
priming
After spending all day at the library, Kathy said, "My brain is stuffed. I can't study anymore. Nothing I read is sticking." Kathy is experiencing ________ interference.
proactive
When you just ride a bike without consciously thinking about how to do so, this illustrates ___ memory.
procedural
Abby has traveled away from home and has no memory of events and other personal details about her life. Based on this information, it appears that she suffers from ___.
psychogenic fugue
When the police ask the victim of a crime to look through mugshots of past criminals, they hope that the victim's ________ will help them to identify and arrest a suspect.
recognition
Which of the following would be an example of mental time travel?
recollecting a trip to NYC, where you and a friend climbed to the top of the Statue of Liberty
Which of the following deserves credit for the primacy effect?
rehearsal
All of the following illustrate implicit memory EXCEPT ___.
semantic knowledge
Which of the following deserves credit for the recency effect?
short-term memory (STM)
There is contemporary research that, in addition to the hippocampus, structures in the ___ lobe may be linked with ___ memory.
temporal; long- and short-term
Why does counting backwards after reciting a list of words eliminate the recency effect?
the last words are lost in short-term memory (STM)
Suppose a subject began recall of a list of words after counting backwards for 30 seconds. What would be the likely consequence of doing this?
the recency effect is eliminated
