Memory practice tests

Question 1

The persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information.

Answer 1

memory

Question 2

An increase in a synapse’s firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation. Believed to be a neural basis for learning and memory.

Answer 2

Long-term potentiation

Question 3

the encoding of meaning

Answer 3

semantic

Question 4

The standard information-processing 3-stage model of memory is also known as the _______________ model

Answer 4

the Atkin-Shiffrin

Question 5

Which of the following is NOT a technique that will improve retention of memory?

Answer 5

cannabis consumption

Question 6

Iconic and echoic both refer to

Answer 6

sensory memory

Question 7

A type of explicit memory that includes past personal experiences is called ____________________ memory.

Answer 7

episodic

Question 8

The process of getting information out of memory storage.

Answer 8

retrieval

Question 9

A momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli

Answer 9

echoic memory

Question 10

The conscious repetition of information, either to maintain it in consciousness or to encode it for storage.

Answer 10

rehearsal

Question 11

Primacy and recency are both examples of

Answer 11

serial position effects

Question 12

Recall, recognition and relearning all demonstrate

Answer 12

retrieval

Question 13

Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and “declare.” (Also called declarative memory.)

Answer 13

explicit memory

Question 14

The linear order from the left to right of these memory words in the standard information-processing model:

Answer 14

encoding, storage, retrieval.

Question 15

Procedural memory, priming and classical conditioning are all forms of

Answer 15

implicit memories

Question 16

Which part of the brain is most involved in creating implicit memories?

Answer 16

cerebellum

Question 17

The case of musician Clive Wearing, unable to encode new memories due to brain damage from infection illustrates the link between _____________ and _____________

Answer 17

amnesia; parallel processing

Question 18

When we are tested immediately after viewing a list of words, we tend to recall the first and last items best, which is known as the ___________________effect.

Answer 18

serial position

Question 19

Researchers studying the links among emotion, stress, and memory have discovered that

Answer 19

both stress and emotion make events more memorable.

Question 20

The tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one’s emotional state when the memory was formed is known as

Answer 20

mood-congruent memory

Question 21

Changes resulting from memory formation that affect neural connections are most closely associated with

Question 22

Ahmed has noticed that he does better on his chemistry exams when he takes them in the same seat that he sits in during class than when he sits in a different seat for exams. If he is properly prepared for each exam, then _______________- may explain his difference in scores.

Answer 22

context effects

Question 23

The activation, often unconsciously, of certain associations, thus predisposing one’s perception, memory, or response.

Answer 23

priming

Question 24

___________________increases the nerve cells’ firing potential at the synapse.

Question 25

Dozens of people witness a purse snatching. One of the eyewitnesses loudly yells “the man with the blue shirt did it.” Later, when questioned by police, several other eyewitnesses remember the purse snatcher wearing a blue shirt, even though the purse snatcher was a woman in flowered dress. This is an example of ________, or the effects of misinformation from external sources that leads to the creation of false memories.

Answer 25

suggestibility

Question 26

Mr. Brown is learning a new classical guitar piece in the key of A minor. Every time he gets to the second section of the piece, he finds himself playing the second section of another piece in A minor that he learned two months ago. This is a “classic” example of

Answer 26

proactive interference

Question 27

Elizabeth Loftus’ research demonstrated that subjects will replace details from memories with ones that have been suggested to them by researcher’s questions using loaded words. For instance, they might remember a car accident as being much worse than what they witness if the word “crash” is used instead of “accident.” This is an example of

Answer 27

the misinformation effect

Question 28

________________ and ________________ are more susceptible to the misinformation affect.

Answer 28

children; the elderly

Question 29

Which of the following is an example of anterograde amnesia?

Question 30

The eerie sense that you have experienced something before, often because of unconscious memories cued by a current experience.

Answer 30

deja vu

Question 31

In psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories. But most memory researchers think _______________rarely, if ever, occurs.

Answer 31

repression