Psych Quiz 8 Questions (From Launchpad)

John remembers very clearly the day his best friend died in a bicycle accident at the hands of a drunk driver. This best illustrates ___________ memory.

flashbulb

Automatic processing is an unconscious, effortless encoding of information about:

frequency, space, time

Most forgetting curves indicate that the course of forgetting is initially rapid, but then it levels off with time. One explanation for the shape of the curves is a(n):

gradual fading of the physical memory trace.

Employing the single word "HOMES" to remember the names of North America's five Great Lakes best illustrates the use of:

a mnemonic device.

Those suffering from depression are more likely to have their memories affected by priming negative associations. This is known as:

mood-congruent memory

Although Ron typically smokes two packs of cigarettes each day, he recalls smoking only a little more than one pack per day. His poor memory best illustrates:

motivated forgetting

If you ask your classmates to draw either side of a U.S. penny from memory, the vast majority will not be very successful. This is likely due to:

encoding failure.

_______________ occurs when something you learned before interferes with your recall of something you learn later.

proactive interference

Which of the following measures of retention is the LEAST sensitive in triggering retrieval?

recall

For his chemistry test in two days, Tarik has to memorize the elements on the periodic table. He writes them on index cards and then keeps the cards with him at all times, periodically reading through them. Tarik is using _______________ to encode information for storage.

rehearsal

Hermann Ebbinghaus found that the more times he practiced the nonsense syllables on day 1, the fewer repetitions he needed to relearn them on day 2 because he had increased his:

rehearsal time

When you recall an imagined event as something that you directly experienced, or something that really happened to you, you are illustrating:

source misattribution

The retention of encoded information over time is called:

storage

New memories are _____; they need to be _____ if one wants to remember them.

weak; exercised

A group of 50-year-old adults is asked to think about their high school classmates. Although they have difficulty recalling the classmates, when presented with yearbooks they can recognize about _____ percent of their pictures and names.

90

Imagine a study in which participants are shown 2,000 slides of houses and storefronts, each for only 10 seconds. Later, these same participants are shown 300 of the original slides paired with slides they have not seen before. According to research, these participants would be able to recognize ______ percent of the slides they had seen in the first round of viewing.

90

Godden and Baddeley conducted a memory experiment using two groups of scuba divers. One group listened to a list of words while sitting on a beach. The other group listened to the same list of words while 10 feet underwater. What did the researchers discover about context and learning?

The greatest recall for the words happened when learning and testing were in the same context (e.g., learn underwater, get tested underwater).

Which of the following about sexual abuse is FALSE?

There is a condition called the "survivor syndrome."

The prolonged strengthening of potential neural firing that is believed to be the basis for learning and memory was named by Gary Lynch and is known as:

long-term potentiation

Which of the following is believed to be the neural basis for learning and memory?

long-term potentiation