ch 7 tophat Flashcards
Which statement is true?
A) Sensory memory has very large capacity
B) Sensory memory has long retention duration.
C) Sensory memory is also called working memory.
D) Only attended sensory inputs will be stored in sensory memor
A) Sensory memory has very large capacity
Free recall, recognition, and relearning are tests for ______
retention
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Which statement is true about the findings of the Brown-Peterson Task?
A) About 90% of information was lost in about 18 seconds if rehearsal was prevented.
B) About 90% of information was lost in about 1 second if rehearsal was prevented.
C) The capacity of short-term memory was estimated to be about 7 ± 2 chunks.
D) The duration of iconic memory was estimated to be about 0.2 to 0.3 seconds
A) About 90% of information was lost in about 18 seconds if rehearsal was prevented.
What is the purpose of the Brown-Peterson Task?
A) To assess the duration of iconic memory
B) To assess the capacity of iconic memory
C) To assess the duration of short-term memory
D) To assess the capacity of short-term memory
C) To assess the duration of short-term memory
Which of the following is the best example of a flashbulb memory (textbook section 7.11)?
A) Remembering negative life events when in a bad mood.
B) Recalling the name of someone from high school while looking at his or her yearbook snapshot
C) Walking through the halls of high school ten years after graduation and experiencing a flood of
old memories.
D) Remembering what you were doing on September 11, 2001, when terrorists crashed planes into
World Trade Center towers
) Remembering what you were doing on September 11, 2001, when terrorists crashed planes into
World Trade Center towers
t takes you 40 minutes to learn a list of words the first time. It takes you 30 minutes to relearn it a
week later. What is your saving score (what percentage of information do you retain)?
A) 25%
B) 33.3%
C) 50%
D) 75%
25%
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The tendency to make memories consistent with current beliefs or attitudes is referred to as _____
(textbook section 7.19).
A) Consolidation
B) Cryptomnesia
C) source amnesia
D) memory bias
D) memory bias
Laken takes a course in which her professor talks about Virginia Woolf’s novel, To the Lighthouse.
The next semester, Laken writes a paper for another class on Virginia Woolf. In her paper, Laken
uses ideas that her earlier professor had presented, while believing that she has developed these
ideas herself. The term that best describes Laken’s unintended plagiarism is _____.
Note: These terms have very similar meanings: source misattribution, source amnesia,
cryptomnesia, suggestibility. Read textbook section 7.19 to find out what they mean and which term
best describes the above case.
A) source misattribution
B) source amnesia
C) cryptomnesia
D) suggestibility
C) cryptomnesia
Five witnesses saw a road accident involving a truck and a car. If they all saw the same thing, who is
likely to give the highest estimate of the truck’s speed when testifying in court?
A) Sue, who was asked, “How quickly was the truck going when it hit the car?”
B) Bob, who was asked, “How quickly was the truck going when it smashed into the car?”
C) Tom, who was asked, “What speed was the truck going when the accident happened?”
D) Jane, who was asked, “What speed was the truck going when the car lost control and hit it?”
E) Nathan, who was asked, “What speed was the truck going when the car lost control and
smashed into it?
B) Bob, who was asked, “How quickly was the truck going when it smashed into the car?”
Research on memory consolidation reveals that _____
A) stored information can be interfered with after encoding.
B) only attended information in sensory memory is consolidated into short-term memory.
C) retrieval has no impacts on the encoded information.
D) new neurons are formed to encode new memories
A) stored information can be interfered with after encoding.
- Patient H.M. suffered from seizures, so he had part of his medial temporal lobes and hippocampus
removed. As a result, he could no longer _____
A) remember his past.
B) form new implicit memories.
C) form new explicit memories.
D) remember anything at all.
C) form new explicit memories.
Retrograde amnesia means: ________ to form new memories and ________ to remember events
before damage to the brain occurs.
A) unable; unable
B) able; unable
C) occasionally able; occasionally able
D) unable; able
B) able; unable
After a car accident, Sherrod wakes up in the hospital and can remember everything about his life.
The doctor comes in, introduces himself, and explains the course of treatment. The next day,
Sherrod believes he has never met the doctor and asks him to explain the proposed treatment.
Based on this experience, the doctor suspects that Sherrod is suffering from _____
A) proactive interference.
B) retrograde amnesia.
C) anterograde amnesia
D) retroactive interference
C) anterograde amnesia
