Quiz #6: CH. 6 Long-term memory

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Which of the following statements is the most accurate with regard to autobiographical memories?

Autobiographical memories can involve both episodic and semantic content.

Explicit memory is to __________ as implicit memory is to __________.

Aware; unaware.

Murdoch's "remembering a list" experiment described the serial position curve and found that memory is best for the ____ of a list.

Both the first and last words.

"I remember being really excited last year, when my college team won the national championships in basketball." This statement is an example of __________ memory.

Episodic.

Your text describes an "Italian woman" who, after an attack of encephalitis, had difficulty remembering people or facts she knew before. She could, however, remember her life events and daily tasks. Her memory behavior reflects...

Intact episodic memory but defective semantic memory.

K.C., who was injured in a motorcycle accident, remembers facts like the difference between a strike and a spare in bowling, but he is unaware of experiencing things like hearing about the circumstances of his brother's death, which occurred two years before the accident. His memory behavior suggests...

Intact semantic memory but defective episodic memory.

Which of the following involves procedural memory?

Reading a sentence in a book.

A patient with impaired episodic memory would most likely have the greatest difficulty in...

Remembering graduating from college.

Which of the following is NOT an example of an implicit memory?

Semantic memory.

The following statement represents what kind of memory? "The Beatles stopped making music together as a group in the early 1970s."

Semantic.

Wickens et al.'s "fruit, meat, and professions" experiment failed to show a release from proactive interference in the "fruit" group because...

The stimulus category remained the same.

One of the defining characteristics of implicit memory is that...

We are not conscious we are using it.


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