Chapter 8: Memory Questions

According to a study by Yogo and Fujihara (2008), if you want to improve your short-term memory, you should spend time writing about ________. your best possible future self a traumatic life experience a trivial topic your grocery list

b

When you are learning how to play the piano, the statement "Every good boy does fine" can help you remember the notes E, G, B, D, and F for the lines of the treble clef. This is an example of a (an) ________. jingle acronym acrostic acoustic

c

________ is another name for short-term memory. sensory memory episodic memory working memory implicit memory

c

If I am looking at a snake and processing the fear caused by the snake, what part of my brain am I using? Select one: a. prefrontal cortex b. cerebellum c. hippocampus d. amygdala

d

In order for a memory to go into storage, it has to pass through three distinct stages: sensory memory, short-term memory, and ________ memory. Select one: a. visual b. sensory c. encoded d. long-term

d

The three functions of memory are ________. automatic processing, effortful processing, and storage encoding, processing, and storage automatic processing, effortful processing, and retrieval encoding, storage, and retrieval

d

Elena finds it very difficult to remember a long string of numbers, so she tries to memorize three numbers at a time. Later, she is able to repeat the numbers correctly because she grouped the numbers into more manageable groups of three. This is an example of ________. Select one: a. mnemonic device b. chunking c. elaborative rehearsal d. persistence

b

What is the set of processes used to encode, store, and retrieve information over different periods of time? Select one: a. sensory encoding b. memory c. automatic processing d. effortful processing

b

________ is when our recollections of the past are done in a self-enhancing manner. stereotypical bias egocentric bias hindsight bias enhancement bias

b

Elaborative rehearsal involves ________. Select one: a. thinking about the meaning of the new information and its relation to knowledge already stored in your memory b. organizing information into manageable bits or chunks c. immediately applying new information to a practical problem d. sleeping immediately after learning new information to allow your mind to process it

a

Memory aids that help organize information for encoding are ________. mnemonic devices memory-enhancing strategies elaborative rehearsal effortful processing

a

The encoding of words and their meaning is known as ________ encoding. Select one: a. semantic b. acoustic c. visual d. effortful

a

The formulation of new memories is sometimes called ________, and the process of bringing up old memories is called ________. construction; reconstruction reconstruction; construction production; reproduction reproduction; production

a

The self-referencing effect refers to ________. making the material you are trying to memorize personally meaningful to you making a phrase of all the first letters of the words you are trying to memorize making a word formed by the first letter of each of the words you are trying to memorize saying words you want to remember out loud to yourself

a

This physical trace of memory is known as the ________. engram Lashley effect Deese-Roediger-McDermott Paradigm flashbulb memory effect

a

An exceptionally clear recollection of an important event is a (an) ________. engram arousal theory flashbulb memory equipotentiality hypothesis

c

Dozens of people witness a purse snatching. One of the eyewitnesses loudly yells "the man with the blue shirt did it." Later, when questioned by police, several other eyewitnesses remember the purse snatcher wearing a blue shirt, even though the purse snatcher was a woman in flowered dress. This is an example of ________: the effects of misinformation from external sources that leads to the creation of false memories. Select one: a. sexism b. reconstruction c. suggestibility d. recognition

c

People may not intend to distort facts, but ________. Select one: a. other people will influence bystanders to change details in their short term memory b. people are unreliable and don't pay attention, so they make things up c. it can happen in the process of retrieving old memories and combining them with new memories d. research proves it always happens when the event is unimportant

c

Encoding information occurs through ________. Select one: a. storing and retrieving b. automatic storing and effortful retrieving c. processing and storing d. automatic processing and effortful processing

d

The storage capacity of long-term memory is ________. one or two bits of information seven bits, plus or minus two limited essentially limitless

d

Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon is also known as ________. persistence misattribution transience blocking

d

What is procedural memory? Select one: a. information about events we have personally experienced b. storage of facts and events we personally experienced c. knowledge about words, concepts, and language-based knowledge and facts d. type of implicit memory that stores information about how to do things

d