Modules 31-33

Which of the following is the most accurate description of the capacity of short-term and working memory?

Can handle about a half dozen items total.

Which of the following statements most accurately reflects the relationship between emotions and memory?

Emotion enhances memory because it is important for our survival to remember events that make us emotional.

Working memory is most active during which portion of the information processing model?

Short-term memory

What does Herman Ebbinghaus' forgetting curve show about the nature of storage decay?

The rate of forgetting decreases as time goes on.

Muhammad has been in his school cafeteria hundreds of times. It is a large room, and there are nine free-standing pillars that support the roof. One day, to illustrate the nature of forgetting, Muhammad's teacher asks him how many pillar there are in the cafeteria. Muhammad has difficulty answering the question,but finally replies that he thinks there are six pillars. What memory concept does this example illustrate?

Encoding failure

What two parts of the rain are most involved in explicit memory?

Frontal lobes and hippocampus

Which of the following is an example of anterograde amnesia?

Louis can remember his past, but has not been able to form new long term memories since experiencing a brain infection 4 years ago.

Caitlin, a fifth grader, is asked to remember her second grade teachers's name. What measure of retention will Caitlin use to answer this question?

Recall

The text discusses therapist-guided "recovered" memories. Which of the following statements represents an appropriate conclusion about this issue.

Since the brain is not sufficiently mature to store accurate memories of events before age of 3, memories from the first 3 years of life are not reliable.

Which of the following is most likely to lead to semantic encoding of a list of words?

Thinking about how the words relate to your own life.

Your memory of which of the following is an example of implicit memory?

Which way to turn the car key to start the engine.

Which of the following is an example of proactive interference?

You can't recall your new cellphone number because your old number interferes.