Chapter 6 Quiz

The following statement represents what kind of memory? "The Beatles stopped making music together as a group in the early 1970s."

semantic memory

This multiple-choice question is an example of a ___________ test.

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Which of the following is NOT a conclusion from the case of H.M., who had an operation to help alleviate his epileptic seizures? a. Long-term memories are unaffected by damage to the hippocampus. b. Short-term and long-term memories are controlled by different mechanisms. c. The hippocampus is necessary for forming new long-term memories. d. Short-term and long-term memories can operate independently of each other.

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Wickens et al.'s "fruit, meat, and professions" experiment failed to show a release from proactive interference in the "fruit" group because ____________. a. the stimulus category changed. b. the response task remained the same. c. the response task changed. d. the stimulus category remained the same.

D

From a cognitive psychology perspective, memories from specific experiences in our life are defined as being ________.

autobiographical

Murdoch's "remembering a list" experiment described the serial position curve and found that memory is best for ___________ of a list.

both the first and last words

When investigating the serial position curve, delaying the memory test for 30 seconds ______________.

decreases the recency effect

In which of the following examples of two different brain-injured patients (Tom and Tim) is a double dissociation demonstrated? a. Tom has good semantic memory and poor episodic memory, while Tim has good episodic memory but poor semantic memory. b. Both Tom and Tim have good semantic memory but poor episodic memory. c. Both Tom and Tim have good episodic memory but poor semantic memory. d. Tom and Tim both show deficits in episodic and semantic memory.

A

K.C., who was injured in a motorcycle accident, remembers facts like the difference between a strike and a spare in bowling, but he is unaware of experiencing things like hearing about the circumstances of his brother's death, which occurred two years before the accident. His memory behavior suggests _______________. a. intact semantic memory but defective episodic memory. b. intact procedural memory but defective semantic memory. c. intact episodic memory but defective semantic memory. d. intact episodic memory but defective procedural memory.

A

One of the defining characteristics of implicit memory is that _____________. a. people use it strategically to enhance memory for events. b. it is enhanced by the self-reference effect. c. people are not conscious they are using it. d. it always leads to episodic memory for events.

C

Lucille is teaching Kendra how to play racquetball. She explains how to hold the racquet, how to stand, and how to make effective shots. These learned skills that Lucille has acquired are an example of ___________ memory.

procedural

A patient with impaired episodic memory would most likely have the greatest difficulty in ______________.

remembering graduating from college

"I remember being really excited last year, when my college team won the national championship in basketball." This statement is an example of ___________ memory.

episodic

The recency effect occurs when participants are asked to recall a list of words. One way to eliminate the recency effect is to ___________.

have participants count backwards for 30 seconds after hearing the last word of the list.

The primacy effect (from the serial position curve experiment) is associated with ___________ memory.

long-term