CFA 1 Practice 5-1

Which of the following statements about automatic processing or effortful processing is true?

Automatic processing requires little mental effort

In the information processing model, encoding takes place between which steps in the model?

Between sensory and short-term, and between short-term and long-term

According to the information-processing view of memory, the first stage in memory porcessing involves...

Encoding

Which of the following psychologists is best associated with studying the function of memory?

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Explicit memories are

Info you consciously work to remember

Elena is presented with a list of 20 numbers. When asked to recall this list, she remembers more numbers from the beginning than from the end of the list. This phenomenon demonstrates which of the following types of effect?

Primacy

Memory for automatic activities, such as bike riding and handwriting, is known as...

Procedural

A moviegoer who cannot identify the name of a film star remembers the name when a friend reviews a list of stars. This incident illustrates which two concepts in human memory?

Recall and recognition

An example of using elaborative encoding to improve memory is...

Sam remembering whoch tree is the ginkgo by using the phrase "sinko ginkgo" because the fruit of the ginko tree smells bad

David was studying some important dates for a test. He noticed that the day and month of one of the dates was the same as his own birthday, and he tried to use that fact to help him remember the date for his test. What is David using to enhance hsi memory?

Self-reference

Jeanette asks a friend to test her on a list of random digits to see how many she can remember. Based on what is known about the average limits of short-term memory capacity, what is the most likely number of digits Jeanette will be able to remember?

Seven

If Jess has a type of amnesia that affects the formation of explicit memories but not implicit ones, which of the following will seh be more likely to remember?

The arm position to throw the ball

Which of the following scenarios is best explained by long-term potentiation?

The first time Colleen tries to remember Leo's name it takes her a long time, but over time she remembers it more quickly.

To remember a list of words, Jerry tried walking through his bedroom and making associations between words on the list and various areas in his bedroom. Jerry is trying to improve hsi memory encoding by using...

The method of loci

A person is assembling a tool one week after reading the instructions can remember the first and last steps of the procedure but not the middle ones. This best illustrates which of the following?

The serial position effect

When rehearsal of incoming information is prevented, whcih of the following will most likely occur?

There will be no transfer of the information to long-term memory

An example of state-dependent memory is...

Tommy finding it easier to remember the materials on an exam while taking it because he was sad when taking it as well as when studying for the exam

Consolidation can be described as the process of

long-term memories being formed from short-term memories

A teacher asks Yvonne to go to another classroom to get a student whom Yvonne has never met. As she walks, she repeats the student's name to herself over and over to help her remember. Yvonne is boosting her memory by using...

maintenance rehearsal

An example of an episodic memory is the memory of...

one's high school graduation