CH 6 Quiz

Colton wakes up in a hospital. Apparently, he cannot remember anything that happened immediately following a severe head injury. Colton's case demonstrates _____ amnesia. anterograde retroactive retrograde proactive

A

The primacy and recency effects are both components of the _____ effect. serial position encoding specificity spacing levels of processing

A

Walking past a classroom's open door, Michael overhears an instructor say, "In the next unit, we will explore how information is collected, stored, and retrieved for later use." Michael realizes that the next unit must be about: memory. perception. intelligence. learning.

A

The capacity of short-term memory is _____ items. 5 to 9 1 or 2 10 to 12 3 to 5

A

According to the textbook, approximately _____% of Boys experience childhood sexual abuse around the world. 9 8 2 13

B

According to the textbook, approximately _____% of girls experience childhood sexual abuse around the world. 9 18 2 13

B

Alan Baddeley is one of the psychologists who was responsible for proposing the: model of the levels of processing approach. model of working memory. information-processing model of memory. model of the encoding specificity principle.

B

H.M.'s MOST striking impairment was profound: retroactive interference. anterograde amnesia. retrograde amnesia. Alzheimer's disease.

B

Jeremy reads a chapter in a textbook knowing that he will be tested on the material. He is trying to get the information into his memory so that he will be able to do well on his exam. In this example, Jeremy is utilizing the memory process of: retrieval. decay. encoding. storage.

C

he first stage in the information processing model of memory is _____ memory, whereas the last stage is _____ memory. sensory; short-term short-term; long-term sensory; long-term long-term; sensory

C

A stroke damages a portion of Mr. Lewis's temporal lobe. His _____ memory may be damaged as a result. procedural explicit emotional spatial

D

Iconic memory and echoic memory are types of _____ memory. working short-term long-term sensory

D

In _____ interference, information learned recently disrupts the recall of information learned earlier. progressive retroactive retrograde proactive

B

The duration of _____ memory is about 30 seconds. echoic short-term iconic long-term

B

The tendency for new and inaccurate information obtained after an incident to distort one's memory of that event is called the _____ effect. shadowing misinformation source error anchoring

B

The textbook states that "people with retrograde amnesia generally remember who they are and the most important events of their earlier lives." This sentence suggests that some _____ memories are preserved in cases of retrograde amnesia. semantic episodic implicit declarative

B

In _____ interference, information learned earlier disrupts the recall of information learned more recently. retroactive retrograde progressive proactive

D

In the _____ effect, the first items in a list are better remembered than are the middle items in a list. recency serial position encoding specificity primacy

D