Cognitive Psychology Chapter 6 quiz

The Brown-Peterson Task has historically been used to show that information can be stored visually, auditorily, and semantically.

False

The hippocampus plays a critical role in the encoding of new long-term memories.

True

Unlike short-term memory, long-term memory has both an unlimited capacity and duration.

True

The finding that memory is better for the first few items on a list is referred to as the:

A. primacy effect

Which of the following cognitive psychologists is best known for using the serial position curve to study the difference between short-term memories and long-term memories?

B. Murdoch

"Mental time travel" is used to describe ____________ memory whereas "mental dictionary" is used to describe ____________ memory.

B. episodic; semantic

Which of the following is a type of implicit memory in which we are unaware of where or when information was learned?

C. procedural memory

If you correctly recall that William James founded the functionalist school of psychology, you are using your _____ memory.

C. semantic

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:

D. STM can operate normally while LTM is impaired

In which of the following examples of two different brain-injured patients (Tom and Tim) is a "double dissociation" demonstrated?

D. Tom has good semantic memory and poor episodic memory, while Tim has good episodic memory but poor semantic memory