Psych 316 Exam 4

Testing is better than re-studying for performance on a final test if the delay between taking the initial test and the final test is short (i.e. < 30 minutes) a) True b) False

false

Sally and Sue are two brain damaged patients. Which of the following examples represents a double dissociation? a) Both Sally and Sue have good episodic memory, but poor semantic memory b) Sally and Sue both show deficits in episodic and semantic memory c) Sally has good semantic memory but poor episodic memory, whereas Sue has good episodic memory but poor semantic memory d) Both Sally and Sue have good semantic memory but poor episodic memory

Sally has good semantic memory but poor episodic memory, whereas Sue has good episodic memory but poor semantic memory

Your book explains that brief episodes of retrograde amnesia (e.g. the traumatic disruption of newly formed memories when a football player takes a hit to the head and can't recall the last play before the hit) reflect a) Disrupted long-term potentiation b) Temporary post-traumatic stress disorder c) Korsakoff's syndrome d) A failure of memory consolidation

a failure of memory consolidation

What is the primacy effect? a) After studying a sequence of items, people are more likely to remember items studied early in the sequence than in the middle of the sequence b) After studying a sequence of items, people are more likely to remember items studied late in the sequence than in the middle of the sequence c) After studying a sequence of items, people are more likely to remember items studied in the middle of the sequence than early in the sequence d) After studying a sequence of items, people are more likely to remember items studied in the middle of the sequence than late in the sequence

after studying a sequence of items, people are more likely to remember items studied early in the sequence than in the middle of the sequence

Amnesic patients cannot recall events that they have experienced in explicit memory tests, but their performance on implicit tests show that they have some capacity to learn. What causes this difference? a) Implicit tests are not true memory tests b) Amnesic patients have intact short-term memory c) Amnesic patients cannot enter retrieval mode d) Amnesic patients have intact iconic/ immediate memory

amnesic patients cannot enter retrieval mode

Patient M.B. damaged his brain in a car accident on Feb 1, 2013 and became amnesic. Today is March 1. You ask him what he did on Feb 14, 2013 and he does not remember. Assuming that this forgetting is caused by amnesia, how would you characterize this amnesia? a) Retrograde amnesia b) Anterograde amnesia c) Graded retrograde amnesia d) Transient global amnesia e) Dissociative fugue

anterograde amnesia

Why didn't Spitzer find a testing effect after 21 days? a) Because the final test occurred too late b) Because the testing effect is not long-lasting c) Because Spitzer did not give his subjects corrective feedback after testing d) Because the initial test occurred too late

because the initial test occurred too late

In the "telephone game", one person whispers a story to a second person, who does the same to a third person, and so on. When the last person recites the story to the group, his or her reproduction of the story is generally shorter than the original and contains many omissions and inaccuracies. This game shows how memory is a ______ process. a) Life-narrative b) Narrative-rehearsal c) Consequentiality based d) Constructive

constructive

A fill-in-the-blanks question is an example of a ________ test. a) Recognition b) Free recall c) Cued recall d) Word naming

cued recall

What is source monitoring? a) People monitor their brain activity when they are trying to retrieve information b) The better one is able to recall the content of a event (e.g a phone conversation), the worse one is able to recall the source (e.g. with whom did one have that phone conversation) of the event c) Each event is remembered by both its content (e.g. a phone conversation) and the source of that content (e.g. with whom did one have that phone conversation), and different factors affect the remembrance of each d) All of the above

each event is remembered by both its content (e.g. a phone conversation) and the source of that content (e.g. with whom did one have that phone conversation), and different factors affect the remembrance of each

Organic amnesia is always caused by brain damage to the medial-temporal lobe. Dissociative fugue is always caused by the occurrence of a psychological trauma a) True b) False

false

HM suffered amnesia due to the removal of brain regions in his a) Frontal lobe b) Temporal lobe c) Occipital lobe d) Parietal lobe

temporal lobe

In an experiment comparing amnesiacs and healthy controls, Warrington and Weiskrantz (1970) showed that amnesiacs have the capacity to learn. In which of the following memory test did the amnesiacs perform as well as the control participants? a) Free recall b) Recognition c) Word fragment identification d) None of the above

word fragment identification

Jacoby and Dallas demonstrated that implicit memory can be dissociated from explicit memory by showing that a) Transfer appropriate processing does not apply to implicit memory, but it applies to explicit memory b) Implicit memory is preserved in older adults but explicit memory is not c) Non-human animals have implicit memory but not explicit memory d) Levels of processing does not apply to implicit memory, but it applies to explicit memory

levels of processing does not apply to implicit memory, but it applies to explicit memory

What is the misinformation effect? a) People's memory of a witnessed event is negatively affected by exposure to incorrect information after b) People's memory of a witnessed event loses detail if a weapon is involved in the witnessed event c) Presenting people with words (e.g. nurse, hospital) related to a nonpresented critical word (e.g. doctor) can cause remembrance of the nonpresented critical word d) Presenting a title (e.g. the story of Hitler) prior to subjects reading a passage creates schema-consistent false memories

people's memory of a witnessed event is negatively affected by exposure to incorrect information after the even

This multiple-choice question is an example of a ___________ test. a) Recognition b) Free recall c) Cued recall d) Word naming

recognition

In one experiment, Roediger and Karpicke manipulated how subjects learn foreign vocabulary by varying the number of times subjects restudy or recall the words. Subjects also predicted their memory performance for a test that will occur one week later. The results of this experiment show that a) Subjects produced relatively accurate prediction of their performance b) Subjects were aware of the benefits of repeated testing on memory performance c) Subjects were aware of the benefits of repeated studying on memory performance d) Subjects produced grossly incorrect prediction of their performance

subjects produced grossly incorrect prediction of their performance

Which of the following is a characteristic of the testing effect? a) Testing slows down forgetting, and its benefits persist over time b) Testing can enhance memory retention, but its benefits fade over time c) Testing only enhances memory retention when one is given corrective feedback after a test d) Taking a test enhances memory retention to the same degree as restudying the material

testing slows down forgetting, and its benefits persist over time

Which of the following is an accurate description for deeply amnesic patients like HM and KC? a) They are able to recall episodic events from long term memory if the events occurred in their remote past, but not if the events occurred in their recent past b) They can recall episodic events from their past, not matter when the events occurred, as longa s they are given enough time to retrieve the information c) They are unable to recall any episodic events from long term memory, regardless of when the events occurred

they are unable to recall any episodic events from long term memory, regardless of when the events occurred

What is the reminiscence bump? When people recall things over multiple occasions, the content of the recall changes/ distorts over time a) When people recall events that occurred over their lifetime, they recall more events that occurred during adolescence and young adulthood than any other periods b) When people recall events that occurred over their lifetime, they recall more events that occurred during mid-life than any other periods c) When people recall events that occurred over their lifetime, they recall more emotionally charged events than neutral events

when people recall evens that occurred over their life time, they recall more events that occurred during adolescence and young adulthood than any other periods