Chapter 07 Quiz: Memory

Which one of the following scenarios illustrates the use of implicit memory?

A 40-year-old driving a car home from work

In the 2004 movie 50 First Dates, Drew Barrymore's character gets into a car accident and loses the ability to form new memories since the accident. She seems to be suffering from what condition?

Anterograde amnesia

Which one of the following correctly matches the part of the brain with the type of memory for which it is responsible?

Cerebellum; procedural memory

When asked for his phone number, Dejon says 456-587-5565, pausing in between each set of numbers. Which one of the following memory devices is he using?

Chunking

Which one of the following statements is true about elaborative rehearsal?

Elaborative rehearsal is better for moving information from short-term to long-term memory.

Which one of the following can help maintain good memory?

Flavanols

Which one of the following types of memories is our largest and most permanent memory storage system?

Long-term memory

Evan knew weeks in advance about a big exam. However, things kept coming up, and he kept delaying his studying until the night before the exam. Which one of the following terms describes his studying?

Massed practice

Which one of the following statements about memory is true?

Memory is often inaccurate.

The saying "King Philip Came Over for Good Soup" as a tool for remembering the animal classification and organization system -- Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus and Species. What kind of a memory device is this?

Mnemonics

Being able to remember all the colors of the rainbow without the mnemonic ROYGBIV is an example of what kind of task?

Recall

Which one of the statements about explicit memory is true?

Relies on language

Which one of the following memory processes involves being able to pull information out of memory on test day?

Retrieval

Lila entered an unfamiliar room and noticed its arrangement, unique carpet, and bright lighting. The memory of what the room looked like during her observation most closely represents what stage model of memory?

Sensory memory

Which one of the following types of memories is only available to you for a fraction of a second?

Sensory memory

Which one of the following statements regarding the serial position effect is true?

The recency effect occurs when the last item in the list is recalled.

Lola was at the grocery store and ran into a person whose name she knew, but no matter how hard she tried to remember it, she could not pull it out of her memory. Which one of the following terms best describes her experience?

Tip of the tongue phenomenon.

Which one of the following statements is true regarding autobiographical memory?

Women are better able to remember autobiographical events because they have a greater tendency to elaborate for emotional event memories.

Commonly, when someone gets a new cell phone number, it is impossible to remember the old cell number. What phenomenon does this illustrate?

Retroactive interference

Which of the following events is most likely to create a flashbulb memory?

Surviving a bad car accident