Chp 6 Memory - Online Questions

At University A, students from all introductory psychology sections take their final examination all at once in a gymnasium. At University B, students from each introductory psychology section take the final exam in the same classroom they attended for lectures during the semester. All else being equal, students at University _____ should perform better, based on the _____.

B; spacing effect

Glenn has heard students and teachers say that students' test performance is better when students are tested in the same room in which they learned the material. This idea is supported by the results of a pioneering study conducted by:

Godden and Baddeley (1975)

Research conducted by _____has demonstrated the reconstructive nature of memory.

Loftus

Flashbulb memories typically concern?

Major, unexpected public or personal events.

Priti is using the method of loci to learn a list of compliance techniques in her social psychology textbook. Priti is using:

Massed practice

According to the encoding specificity principle, the similarity between learning and retrieval contexts influence:

Memory

How does the brain's memory system differ from that of a computer?

More complex

Knowing how to serve a badminton birdie is an example of a(n) ________ memory.

Procedural

A stimulus that facilitates the recall of information from long-term memory is called a:

Retrieval cue

Chad is puzzling over a difficult question on a multiple-choice sociology test however as he rereads the response options he remembers the correct answer. Chad has made use of:

Retrieval cues

_____ amnesia involves an inability to retrieve old memories.

Retrograde

Aplysia is a(n):

Sea Slug

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, psychologist George Sperling conducted important studies of _____ memory.

Sensory

The concept of working memory represents a contemporary conceptualization of _____ memory.

Short Term

The study of sensory memory is associated with:

Sperling

According to the text, working memory is MOST nearly analogous to:

The making of bread inside a bakery.

T/F: A vivid imagination helps create better memories.

True

T/F: Central executive — directs attention

True

T/F: Chinese people's memories more often relate to social and historical events because China is a more collectivist culture.

True

T/F: Classical conditioning occurs outside one's awareness.

True

T/F: Ebbinghaus himself was the only participant in his memory studies.

True

T/F: Iconic and Echoic memory are different types of sensory memory.

True

T/F: In George Sperling's study, the interval between the matrix and the cue is a dependent variable?

True

T/F: In a study examining the effect of deep processing on relearning, the dependent variable is likely a savings score.

True

T/F: Long-term potentiation refers to the process whereby neural pathways become activated more efficiently as learning occurs.

True

T/F: Martina is reminded of the levels of processing framework when one of her professors tells the class, "You'll probably do better on the test if you put more effort into understanding what the chapter's trying to say in the first place."

True

T/F: Priming functions as retrieval cues.

True

T/F: Recall tests are usually more difficult than are recognition tests.

True

T/F: The hippocampus is more involved in encoding than in retrieval.

True

The frontal lobe is to _____ memory as the temporal lobe is to _____ memory.

Working; spatial

Compared with alcohol intoxication, talking on a cell phone impairs driving to:

About the same extent

Rhonda can't remember anything about the first several minutes immediately following a car crash in which she was injured. Rhonda is experiencing _____ amnesia.

Anterograde

In rich false memory experiments, about _____ of participants remember events that never happened.

25%

Approximately ____ of girls and _____ of boys in the U.S. experience childhood sexual abuse.

30-40%; 10-15%

According to the National Institute on Aging (2013), Alzheimer's disease affects as many as _____ million Americans.

5

One in every _____ people older than 65 suffers from Alzheimer's disease.

8

Which statement BEST describes the results of Ebbinghaus work on forgetting? A. The person will forget most of it right away, and he'll keep on forgetting more of it, although at a slower rate. B. Forgetting starts out slowly and then speeds up as time passes. C. The person will remember what he learned pretty well for a day or two, but then he'll begin rapidly forgetting the material. D. Beginning immediately, a person will slowly forget what he has learned at a relatively constant rate.

C

The textbook describes the case of Henry Molaison, also known as H.M. After brain surgery, H. M suffered severe anterograde amnesia. This means that H.M. had

Creating new long term memories

Explicit memory is also called _____ memory.

Declarative

The levels of processing framework proposes that the ease with which information is remembered may be traced to differences in the processing that occur during:

Encoding

The hippocampus plays a role in memory consolidation. It is probably MOST accurate to say that the hippocampus is more involved in _____ than in _____.

Encoding and Retrieval

In working memory, visual and verbal information is integrated in the:

Episodic buffer

T/F: Atkinson and Shiffrin developed the levels of processing framework of memory.

False

T/F: In the classic studies of the encoding specificity principle, participants recalled the words better on dry land, whether they had learned the words on land or underwater.

False

T/F: In the working memory model, the central executive is part of the episodic buffer.

False

T/F: Infantile amnesia may reflect cerebellar immaturity.

False

T/F: Scientists have isolated the hippocampus as the site of the engram.

False

T/F: The components of working memory operate independently.

False