Chapter 6 (Practice Quiz)

Your friend lost his cell phone and is asking you for help remembering three crucial phone numbers until the replacement is delivered. Which of the following would you probably advise him to do?

a. Make the three phone numbers into phrases

The system by which we retain and recall information is

a. Memory

Which of the following is the likely reason that, after studying for five minutes, you can remember the first three of the six Noble gases on the periodic table more clearly than the last three?

a. Primacy effect

According to recent research, which of the following has not been shown to improve memory in any measurable way?

a. Supplements and drugs

Based on memory research, which method is the least effective way to study for a test?

b. Massed practice

Another term for short-term memory is

b. Working

When a researcher says that memories decay, they mean that

b. as time passes, long term memories will fade.

Which type of permanent memory loss involves the inability to form new memories?

c. Anterograde amnesia

To prepare for his chemistry final, Bill studies by repeating the Periodic Table to himself in increments of five elements. What process is Bill using to enhance his memory of the table?

c. Chunking

A psychoanalyst believes that his patient can't remember the period between his 5th birthday and the beginning of kindergarten because his father died that year. He is proposing that the patient is experiencing

c. Repression

What are the two classifications of time-based declarative memory?

c. Retrospective versus prospective

When you are answering trivia questions, you are accessing which type of memory?

c. Semantic

George Miller studied memory extensively and determined that the capacity of which stage of memory was about 7 +/- 2 bits?

c. Short-term

Of the following, which is an example of promoting memory retention through chunking?

c. The classic pattern for a phone number 1-800-555-1212

According to the decay theory, which of the following fade over time?

c. Traces

A person who is studying for a licensing exam fails the first time. The second time she takes it, she notices that she needs to study the handbook only for about 75% of the time she did first time through. This is an example of

c. savings method.

Hermann's first attempt to memorize a list of words took 20 tries, and his second attempt took 5 tries. He records 25% for this way of learning the list. This is a description of

c. savings method.

Which of the following are intricate circuits that are hypothesized to store memories throughout the brain?

d. Neuronal networks

What is the middle stage of the three-stage model of memory storage?

d. Short-term

Organizers, tabs, lists, and reminders are all examples of

d. external aids.