unit 7 practice questions

Herman Ebbinghaus' forgetting curve shows that.. a. most forgetting occurs early on and then levels off b. we forget more rapidly as time passes c. forgetting is relatively constant over time d. forgetting is related to many factors, but time is not one of them e. we're more likely to forget items in the middle of a list than at the beginning or the end

a

Scott gets soaked in the rainstorm because he doesn't think of using his backpack to shield himself from the rain. which barrier to problem solving is evidenced here? a. fixation b. insight c. representativeness d. confirmation bias e. availability

a

the basketball players could remember the main points of their coach's halftime talk, but not her exact words. this is because they encoded the info.. a. semantically b. iconically c. implicitly d. shallowly e. automatically

a

when someone provides his phone number to another person, he usually pauses after the area code and again after the next three numbers. this pattern underscores the importance of which memory principle? a. chunking b. the serial position effect c. semantic encoding d. auditory encoding e. recognition

a

which of the following demonstrates the representativeness heuristic? a. deciding that a new kid in school is a nerd because he looks like a nerd b. fearing air travel because of seeing plane crashes in the news c. checking in every drawer to find some matches because matches are usually in drawers d. having the solution to a word problem pop into your head because you have just successively solved a similar problem e. applying for jobs in several local grocery stores because your best friend just got a job in a grocery store

a

which of the following is an example of implicit memory a. what time you had lunch yesterday b. the details of an assignment that's due tomorrow c. vividly recalling significant events, such as the death of a famous person d. the names of all U.S. state capitals e. recognizing names and pictures of your classmates many years after they have graduated

a

Benjamin Lee Whorf's linguistic determinism hypothesis relates to what aspect of the power of language? a. how thinking determines language b. how language determines thinking c. the idea of a universal grammar d. the importance of critical periods in language development e. the development of language in nonhuman animals

b

which of the following illustrates a heuristic? a. calculating the area of a rectangle by multiplying the length times the width b. using three dramatic news reports of corporate fraud to estimate how often business fraud occurs c. looking in each room of your home to find your sleeping cat d. following a new recipe to bake a cake for your friend e. trying every key on your mom's key ring until you find the one that unlocks the seldom-used storeroom in the basement

b

Carl damaged his cerebellum in a car accident. as a result, he would have the most trouble remembering.. a. his new physician's name b. the time of his next doctor apt. c. how to ride his therapy bike d. his new license plate number e. the things his wife has asked him to get at the grocery store

c

Long-term potentiation (LTP) is best described as follows: a. it's easier to recognize than to recall info b. constructed memories have the potential to be either accurate or inaccurate c. these synaptic changes allow for more efficient transfer of info d. implicit memories are processed by the cerebellum instead of by the hippocampus e. info is transferred from working memory to long-term memory

c

Mave got a new car with the license plate "MAV-NUM1." she is asked by the school parking clerk what her number is but can only remember her old one, "VANMOM1." her inability to remember her new plate is most likely due to.. a. retroactive interference b. mood congruency c. proactive interference d. anterograde amnesia e. retrograde amnesia

c

Miller's "magical number seven, plus or minus two" refers to a. the ideal # of times to rehearse info in the first encoding session b. the # of seconds information stays in short-term memory w/o rehearsal c. the capacity of short-term memory d. the # of seconds info stays in echoic storage e. the # of years most long-term memories last

c

you are more likely to remember happy memories when you are presently happy than when you are sad due to.. a. mood congruence b. context effects c. semantic encoding d. proactive interference e. retroactive interference

c

a phoneme, such as the "c" in cows, is best described as a.. a. unit of meaning in a language b. form a syntax c. stage of language development d. unit of sound in a language e. form of telegraphic speech

d

people are more concerned about a medical procedure when told it has a 10 percent death rate than they are when told it has a 90 percent survival rate. which psychological concept explains this difference in concern? a. belief perseverance b. insight c. intuition d. framing e. confirmation bias

d

research on the role of the amygdala in the memory has found that.. a. the amygdala help process memories of happy experiences b. the amygdala support Freud's ideas about memory because they allow us to repress memories of trauma c. the amygdala produce long-term potentiation in the brain d. the amygdala help make sure we remember events that trigger strong emotional responses e. the amygdala are active when the retrieval of a long-term memory is primed

d

which of the following is an example of source amnesia? a. Iva can't remember the details of a horrifying event because she has repressed them b. Mary has entirely forgotten about an incident in grade school until her friend reminds her of the event c. michael can't remember this year's locker combination because he confuses it with last year's combination d. Stephen misremembers a dream as something that really happened e. Anna, who's trying to lose weight, is unable to remember several of the between-meal snacks she had yesterday

d

which of the following isn't one of Robert Sternberg's components of creativity? a. a venturesome personality b. imaginative thinking skills c. a creative environment d. incubation e. intrinsic motivation

d

Alice significantly underestimated how long it would take to write her term paper because of.. a. belief perseverance b. framing c. intuition d. the availability e. overconfidence

e

according to Noam Chomsky, language acquisition occurs most especially because of.. a. exposure to language in early childhood b. instruction in grammar c. reinforcement for babbling and other early verbal behaviors d. imitation and drill e. linguistic determinism

e

by waiting until the last minute to study for an exam, you are using an unrecommended strategy called.. a. imagery b. semantic memory c. distributed practice d. chunking e. massed practice

e

when asked to think of a "desk," many students think of the desks in their classroom rather than a large desk used by an executive. this illustrates that their school desks have formed ________of a desk. a. phoneme b. heuristic c. concept d. telegraphic utterance e. prototype

e

which of the following illustrates the serial position effect? a. the only name Kenzie remembers from the people she met at the party is Spencer, because she thought he was particularly good looking b. Kimia has trouble remembering info from the book's first unit when she reviews for semester finals c. it's easy for Brittney to remember that carbon's atomic number is 6 because her birthday is on December 6 d. Kyle wasn't able to remember the names of all of his new co-workers after one week on the job, but he could remember them after 2 weeks e. Alp is unable to remember the middle of a list of vocab words as well as he remembers the first or last words on the list

e

which of the following statements concerning memory is true? a. hypnosis, when used as a component of therapy, usually improves the accuracy of memory b. one aspect of memory that's usually accurate is the source of the remembered info c. children's memories of abuse are more accurate than other childhood memories d. memories we are more certain of are more likely to be accurate e. memories are often a blend of correct and incorrect info

e