Midterm 2

Question 1

Which is a representative, but actual member of a category that a person is often exposed to?

Answer 1

Exemplar

Question 2

Your book discusses the memory functioning of patient H.M. who underwent brain surgery to relieve severe epileptic seizures. H.M.’s case has been extremely informative to psychologists by demonstrating that …

Answer 2

short-term memory can operate normally while long-term memory is impaired

Question 3

This multiple-choice question is an example of a

Answer 3

Recognition test

Question 4

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 2 years before the accident. His memory behavior suggests intact …

Answer 4

Semantic memory but defective episodic memory

Question 5

What effect does a police officer informing the eyewitness that the perpetrator may or may not be in the lineup have on erroneous identification

Answer 5

Erroneous identification is reduced substantially

Question 6

Not all of the members of everyday categories have the same features. Most fish have gills, fins, and scales. Sharks lack the feature of scales, yet they are still categorized as fish. This poses a problem for which approach to categorization?

Answer 6

Definitional

Question 7

The prototype approach to categorization states that a hypothetical “average” representation of a category is based on

Answer 7

A universal set of category members

Question 9

When investigating the serial position curve, delaying the memory test for 30 seconds…

Answer 9

Decreases the recency effect

Question 10

Which brain region is MOST responsible for the impact of emotional memories?

Answer 10

Amygdala

Question 11

Which approach divides categories into living things and artifacts

Answer 11

Sensory functional

Question 12

The dramatic case of patient H.M. clearly illustrates that the hippocampus is crucial for the formation of …

Answer 12

Long term memory

Question 13

Which of these theories on conceptual representation combines both sensory and motor experiences

Answer 13

Embodied approach

Question 14

How does the exemplar approach attempt to categorize an object?

Answer 14

The object is compared to many prior real examples of the category

Question 15

Some studies on the reminiscence bump that included immigrants who emigrated at a later point in life than childhood were asked about the most important events in their lives. Which explanation did the results of this study support?

Answer 15

Cognitive hypotheses