Psych Quiz 10

Question 1

Whenever Laura experiences intense feelings of fear, she is overwhelmed with childhood memories of her abusive parents. Laura’s experience best illustrates:
retroactive interference.
the misinformation effect.
implicit memory.
mood-congruent memory.
None of the listed answers are correct
repression.

Answer 1

mood-congruent memory.

Question 2

Certain amnesic patients are incapable of recalling activities, yet they can be conditioned to blink their eyes in response to a specific sound. They have most likely suffered damage to the:
amygdala.
cerebellum.
hypothalamus.
None of the listed answers are correct
hippocampus.
All of the listed answers are correct

Answer 2

hippocampus

Question 3

The extensive rehearsal necessary to encode nonsense syllables best illustrates:
  chunking. 
  implicit memory. 
  the serial position effect. 
  effortful processing. 
  the spacing effect. 
  None of the listed answers are correct

Answer 3

effortful processing

Question 4

The method of loci relies heavily on the use of:
mood-congruent memory.
None of the listed answers are correct
the self-reference effect.
visual encoding.
the spacing effect.
implicit memory.

Answer 4

Visual encoding

Question 5

Which of the following is most likely to be stored as an implicit memory?
  a mental image of one's best friend
  the date of one's own birth
  All of the listed answers are correct 
  a conditioned fear of guns 
  one's own name
  None of the listed answers are correct

Answer 5

A conditioned fear of guns

Question 6

Employing the single word “HOMES” to remember the names of North America’s five Great Lakes best illustrates the use of:
a mnemonic device.
the “peg-word” system.
None of the listed answers are correct
the method of loci.
implicit memory.
the serial position effect.

Answer 6

a mnemonic device.

Question 7

When you have to make a long-distance call, dialing an unfamiliar area code plus a seven-digit number, you are likely to have trouble retaining the just-looked-up number. This best illustrates the limited capacity of ________ memory.
None of the listed answers are correct
long-term
flashbulb
implicit
short-term
explicit

Answer 7

Short term

Question 8

Ebbinghaus observed that it is much easier to learn meaningful material than to learn nonsense material. This best illustrates the advantage of:
the spacing effect.
implicit memory.
None of the listed answers are correct
semantic encoding.
the “peg-word” system.
mood-congruent memory.

Answer 8

semantic encoding.

Question 9

A measure of your memory in which you need to pick the correctly learned answer from a displayed list of options is known as a measure of:
recall.
recognition.
relearning.
None of the listed answers are correct
reconstruction.
rehearsal.

Answer 9

recognition

Question 10

Mrs. Lawrence can’t remember how frequently she criticizes her children because it would be too embarrassing for her. Sigmund Freud would have suggested that her poor memory illustrates:
None of the listed answers are correct
the self-reference effect.
proactive interference.
repression.
source amnesia.
automatic processing.

Answer 10

Repression

Question 11

After suffering a brain injury in a motorcycle accident, Doug cannot form new memories. He can, however, remember his life experiences before the accident. Doug’s memory difficulty most clearly illustrates:
retroactive interference.
motivated forgetting.
encoding failure.
None of the listed answers are correct
source amnesia.
repression.

Answer 11

Encoding failure

Question 12

While taking the final exam in her American history class, Alice was surprised and frustrated by her momentary inability to remember the name of the first president of the United States. Her difficulty most clearly illustrates:
the self-reference effect.
the serial position effect.
source amnesia.
state-dependent memory.
None of the listed answers are correct
retrieval failure.

Answer 12

Retrieval failure

Question 13

Mr. Han suffers amnesia and is unable to remember playing golf on a particular course. Yet the more he plays the course, the more his game improves. His experience illustrates the need to distinguish between:

All of the listed answers are correct
explicit and implicit memory.
short-term and long-term memory.
proactive and retroactive interference.
None of the listed answers are correct
recognition and recall.

Answer 13

explicit and implicit memory.

Question 14

Although Paul typically smokes two packs of cigarettes a day, he recalls smoking little more than a pack a day. This poor memory best illustrates:
the misinformation effect.
None of the listed answers are correct
the self-reference effect.
motivated forgetting.
source amnesia.
the spacing effect.

Answer 14

motivated forgetting.

Question 15

During her evening Spanish language exam, Sasha so easily remembers the French vocabulary she studied that morning that she finds it difficult to recall the Spanish vocabulary she rehearsed that afternoon. Her difficulty best illustrates:
None of the listed answers are correct
proactive interference.
retroactive interference.
source amnesia.
the spacing effect.
state-dependent memory.

Answer 15

proactive interference.

Question 16

At a block party, Olivia is introduced to eight new neighbors. Moments later, she can only remember the names of the first three and last two neighbors. Her experience illustrates:
implicit memory.
None of the listed answers are correct
the next-in-line effect.
the spacing effect.
the serial position effect.
source amnesia.

Answer 16

the serial position effect.

Question 17

It is easier to remember “what sobriety conceals, alcohol reveals” than to recall “what sobriety conceals, alcohol unmasks.” This best illustrates the value of:
None of the listed answers are correct
the serial position effect.
the spacing effect.
acoustic encoding.
implicit memory.
mood-congruent memory.

Answer 17

acoustic encoding.

Question 18

The surprising ease with which people form false memories best illustrates that the processes of encoding and retrieval involve:
implicit memory.
memory construction.
None of the listed answers are correct
automatic processing.
long-term potentiation.
repression.

Answer 18

memory construction.

Question 19

When 6-year-old Becca reported that she had been verbally threatened by a stranger in a passing car, her mother asked her what color car the man was driving. Several hours later Becca mistakenly recalled that she had been threatened by a male driver rather than by a female passenger. Becca's experience best illustrates:
  proactive interference. 
  implicit memory. 
  the serial position effect. 
  the misinformation effect. 
  state-dependent memory. 
  None of the listed answers are correct

Answer 19

the misinformation effect.

Question 20

Several months after watching a science fiction movie about spaceship travel and alien abductions, Mitch began to remember that he had been abducted by aliens and personally subjected to many of the horrors portrayed in the movie. His mistaken recall best illustrates:
source amnesia.
the spacing effect.
mood-congruent memory.
implicit memory.
None of the listed answers are correct
repression.

Answer 20

Source amnesia

Question 21

In an effort to recall his early life experiences, Eric formed vivid mental images of the various rooms in his childhood home. Eric was engaging in the process of:
iconic memory.
semantic encoding.
automatic processing.
priming.
None of the listed answers are correct
implicit memory.

Answer 21

Priming

Question 22

Many people can easily recall exactly what they were doing when they heard the news of the 9/11 terrorist tragedy. This best illustrates ________ memory.
flashbulb
state-dependent
echoic
iconic
None of the listed answers are correct
implicit

Answer 22

Flashbulb

Question 23

Although Jordan could not recall the exact words of a poem he had recently heard, he clearly remembered the meaning of the poem. This best illustrates the importance of:
  mood-congruent memory. 
  implicit memory. 
  the serial position effect. 
  the method of loci. 
  semantic encoding. 
  None of the listed answers are correct

Answer 23

semantic encoding.

Question 24

Recalling something that you had once merely imagined happening as something you had directly experienced best illustrates:
None of the listed answers are correct
implicit memory
source amnesia.
proactive interference
mood-congruent memory.
the self-reference effect.

Answer 24

Source amnesia