Questions to Consider and Practice Quiz Questions Exam 2

What are some techniques we can use to help us get information out of LTM when we need it?

- mnemonic devices

How can the results of memory research be used to create more effective study techniques?

- multiple short study sessions

You have been studying for weeks for a nursing school entrance exam. You love the idea of becoming a nurse, and you have been enjoying learning about the material for your exam. Each night, you put on comfortable clothes and study in the quiet of your lovely home. Memory research suggests you should take your test with a(n)

relaxed mindset

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

repetition

Which of the following is one of the stages in the modal model of memory?

sensory memory

When John attributes information learned in a biology class instead to a more recent psychology class, which type of error has been committed?

source monitoring

Memory research has revealed that which type of hormone is responsible for the intensity of emotionally charged events?

stress

According to Baddeley, which part of working memory is the attention controller?

the central executive

Based on the video, during the early phase of long-term potentiation (LTP), calcium causes the insertion of which receptor on the postsynaptic membrane?

AMPA

Based on the video, which glutamatergic receptors play key roles in long-term potentiation (LTP)?

AMPA and NMDA

Your book discusses the memory functioning of patient H.M. who underwent brain surgery to relieve severe epileptic seizures. H.M.'s case has been extremely informative to psychologists by demonstrating that

STM can operate normally while LTM is impaired

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

adolescence and young adulthood

Evidence from which type of memory retrieval supports the multiple trace model of consolidation?

episodic memories

River and Max are studying for their chemistry test and are quizzing each other with questions that they have created. River and Max are using which of the following techniques for studying?

generate and test

When studying which of the following supports the use of self-testing with questions you created as an effective studying technique?

generation and self-testing indicates what you know and increases your ability to remember this information later

Which of the following would be an example of auditory coding in long-term memory?

hearing your favorite song in your head

The primary effect of chunking is to ______

increase the efficiency of STM

Which of the following is an example of how researchers have measured the capacity of short-term memory?

measuring digit span

When Ralph is asked to describe where an event took place, the location changes after hearing three of his other friends' stories. This is most likely due to which of the following?

misinformation effect

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

procedural memory

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

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

In your physics class in college, your professor was talking about the effects of gravity, and you remember learning about this in high school; however, you can no longer remember the name of your high school teacher, which friends had the class with you, or when you took the class. The loss of these details related to your memory of physics and gravity can be explained by

the semanticization of remote memories

Explicit memory is to aware, as implicit memory is to

unaware

The visual imagery and mental rotation are components of the

visuospatial sketch pad