Exam 3 Cog Psych

Which statement below is NOT true, based on the results of memory research?

Although eyewitness testimony is often faulty, people who have just viewed a videotape of a crime are quite accurate at picking the "perpetrator" from a lineup.

Which of the following is a key factor in the memory-enhancing capacity of sleep?

Distraction

Paivio (1963) proposed the conceptual peg hypothesis. His work suggests which of the following would be most difficult to remember?

Freedom

Katie and Alana are roommates taking the same psychology class. They have a test in four days during a 10:00-11:00 AM class period. Both women intend to study for three hours, but because of different work schedules, Katie will study one hour for each of the next three days, while Alana will study three hours the day before the exam. What could you predict about their performances?

Katie should perform better because of the spacing effect.

Lakeisha and Kim have been studying for two hours for their chemistry exam. Both girls are tired of studying. Lakeisha decides to watch a two-hour movie on DVD, while Kim decides to go to bed. What would you predict about their performance on the chemistry exam?

Kim performs better because of consolidation.

The concept of encoding specificity is grounded in which of the following?

Location

Which of the following is key to the illusory truth effect?

Repetition

___________ cues help us remember information that has been stored in memory.

Retrieval

If you were given the words jog, gallop, sprint, jump, track, chase, and escape and asked to remember them, which of the following words would you be most likely to falsely remember?

Run

The conceptual peg hypothesis would predict enhanced memory for which word pair?

a. Cake mug

How would you describe the relationship between elaborative rehearsal and maintenance rehearsal in terms of establishing long-term memories?

a. Elaborative is more effective than maintenance.

Despite scientific evidence to the contrary, Harry believes that drinking dandelion tea would improve his long-term memory because he saw several news stories and articles about it online. What is Harry experiencing?

a. Illusory truth effect

Suppose we ask people to perform the following cognitive tasks. Which is LEAST likely to strongly activate the visual cortex?

a. Imagine the meaning of the word "ethics."

Mental scanning experiments found

a. a direct relationship between scanning time and distance on the image.

A script is a type of schema that also includes knowledge of

a. a sequence of actions.

For most adults over age 40, the reminiscence bump describes enhanced memory for

a. adolescence and young adulthood.

In the "word list" false memory experiment where several students incorrectly remembered hearing the word sleep, false memory occurs because of

a. constructive memory processes.

Perky's experiment, in which participants were asked to "project" visual images of common objects onto a screen, showed that

a. imagery and perception can interact with one another.

Shepard and Metzler measured the time it took for participants to decide whether two objects were the same (two different views of the same object) or different (two different objects). These researchers inferred cognitive processes by using

a. mental chronometry.

Elaborative rehearsal of a word will LEAST likely be accomplished by

a. repeating it over and over.

Examples from your book describing real experiences of how memories, even ones from a long time ago, can be stimulated by locations, songs, and smells highlight the importance of ___________ in long-term memory.

a. retrieval cues

Free recall of the stimulus list "apple, desk, shoe, sofa, plum, chair, cherry, coat, lamp, pants" will most likely yield which of these response patterns?

b. "apple, cherry, plum, shoe, coat, pants, lamp, chair"

Which example below best demonstrates state-dependent learning?

b. Although Emily doesn't very often think about her first love, Steve, she can't help getting caught up in happy memories when "their song" (the first song they danced to) plays on the radio.

Which of the following representation types is associated with abstract concepts?

b. Propositional

Your book explains that brief episodes of retrograde amnesia (e.g., the traumatic disruption of newly formed memories when a football player takes a hit to the head and can't recall the last play before the hit) reflect

b. a failure of memory consolidation.

A lesson to be learned from the research on flashbulb memories is that

b. extreme vividness of a memory does not mean it is accurate.

Shepard and Metzler's "image rotation" experiment was so influential and important to the study of cognition because it demonstrated

b. imagery and perception may share the same mechanisms.

Ganis and coworkers (2004) used fMRI to measure brain activation for perception and imagery of objects. Their results showed that

b. perception and imagery activate the same areas of the frontal lobe, but perception activates more of the back of the brain than imagery does.

The experiment for which people were asked to make fame judgments for both famous and non-famous names (and for which Sebastian Weissdorf was one of the names to be remembered) illustrated the effect of __________ on memory.

b. source misattributions

Autobiographical memory research shows that a person's brain is more extensively activated when viewing photos

b. the person took himself or herself.

Suppose we asked people to form simultaneous images of two or more animals such as a rabbit alongside an elephant. Then, we ask them basic questions about the animals. For example, we might ask if the rabbit has whiskers. Given our knowledge of imagery research, we would expect the fastest response to this question when the rabbit is imagined alongside

c. a bumblebee.

Imagery neurons respond to

c. an actual visual image as well as imagining that same image.

Unconscious plagiarism of the work of others is known as

c. cryptoamnesia.

According to your text, imagery enhances memory because

c. imagery can be used to create connections between items to be remembered.

Your text describes imagery performance of a patient with unilateral neglect. This patient was asked to imagine himself standing at one end of a familiar plaza and to report the objects he saw. His behavior shows

c. neglect always occurred on the left side of the image, with "left side" being determined by the direction in which the patient imagined he was positioned.

Trinh is a famous chef. Since she does not like to share her secret family recipes, she does not write down her special creations, which makes it difficult to remember their ingredients. To aid her memory, she has created a unique "mental walk" that she takes to recall each recipe. For each one, she has a familiar "route" she can imagine walking through (e.g., from the end of her driveway to her living room) where she places each item in the recipe somewhere along the way (e.g., fish sauce splattered on the front door). By doing so, Trinh is using ___________ to organize her memories.

c. the method of loci

Memory performance is enhanced if the type of task at encoding matches the type of task at retrieval. This is called

c. transfer-appropriate processing.

Research on eyewitness testimony reveals that

c. when viewing a lineup, an eyewitness's confidence in his or her choice of the suspect can be increased by an authority's confirmation of his or her choice, even when the choice is wrong.

According to the ______ approach to memory, what people report as memories is based on what actually happened plus additional factors such as other knowledge, experiences, and expectations.

constructive

Jacoby's experiment, in which participants made judgments about whether they had previously seen the names of famous and non-famous people, found that inaccurate memories based on source misattributions occurred after a delay of

d. 24 hours.

Which of the following is the most accurate statement regarding post-event information and the misinformation effect?

d. Even when participants are told that the post-event information is incorrect, the misinformation effect can still occur.

Wei has allergy symptoms. He has gone to his regular doctor and an allergy specialist, but he wasn't given a prescription by either doctor. Instead, he was advised to buy an over-the-counter medicine. While he was in the specialist's waiting area, he read a magazine where he saw three ads for an allergy medicine called SneezeLess. A week later, in a drug store, Wei says to his brother, "My doctor says SneezeLess works great. I'll buy that one." Wei and his doctor never discussed SneezeLess. Wei has fallen victim to which of the following errors?

d. Source monitoring

According to the cognitive hypothesis, experiences that occur during periods of rapid personal development followed by periods of stability tend to be easier to remember due to which of the following?

d. Strong encoding

Which of the following learning techniques is LEAST likely to lead to deep processing of the information?

d. Thuy has just bought a new car and is trying to learn her new license plate sequence. Every morning, for three weeks, she repeats the sequence out loud when she wakes up.

Ellen is 52 years old. Which of the following experiences has most likely faded from her memory?

d. Winning the first grade spelling bee

The propositional approach may use any of the following EXCEPT

d. a spatial layout.

The misinformation effect occurs when a person's memory for an event is modified by misleading information presented

d. after the event.

People often report an annoying memory failure when they walk from one end of the house to the other for something and then forget what they wanted when they reach their destination. As soon as they return to the first room, they are reminded of what they wanted in the first place. This common experience best illustrates the principle of

d. encoding specificity.

Lindsay's misinformation effect experiment, in which participants were given a memory test about a sequence of slides showing a maintenance man stealing money and a computer, showed that participants are influenced by misleading post-event information

d. even if they are told to ignore the post-event information.

Mental imagery involves

d. experiencing a sensory impression in the absence of sensory input.

Kosslyn's island experiment used the ___________ procedure.

d. mental scanning

Kosslyn's transcranial magnetic stimulation experiment on brain activation that occurs in response to imagery found that the brain activity in the visual cortex

d. plays a causal role in both perception and imagery.

According to the levels of processing theory, memory durability depends on the depth at which information is

encoded

In Slameka and Graf's (1978) study, some participants read word pairs, while other participants had to fill in the blank letters of the second word in a pair with a word related to the first word. The latter group performed better on a later memory task, illustrating the

generation effect.

According to the predictions of the false memory demonstration, how often should participants remember the special/related distractors.

more often than normal distractors

The maintenance rehearsal task of learning a word by repeating it over and over again is most likely to

produce some short-term remembering, but fail to produce longer-term memories.

As described in your text, the pegword technique relies on all of the following EXCEPT

propositions

According to memory research, studying is most effective if study sessions are

short and across several days.

A mental rotation task is focused on the ________ aspect of imagery.

spatial

Kosslyn interpreted the results of his research on imagery (such as the island experiment) as supporting the idea that the mechanism responsible for imagery involves ___________ representations.

spatial

Jeannie loves to dance, having taken ballet for many years. She is now learning salsa dancing. Although the movements are very different from the dances she is familiar with, she has found a successful memory strategy of linking the new dance information to her previous experiences as a dancer and to her own affection for dance. This strategy suggests reliance on

the self-reference effect.