Psych Unit 3

Question 1

Which part of the brain plays a key role in forming and storing the implicit memories created by classical conditioning

Answer 1

Cerebellum

Question 2

The forgetting curve is when information learned drops off rapidly with time T/F

Answer 2

T

Question 3

In order to remember her way from her new home to her school Julie consciously formed a mental image of each street corner at which she needed to turn. This best illustrates

Answer 3

Effortful processing

Question 4

Following brain injury from a brutal might attack, Mike is unable to call hysterical recognize what a knife is. But hd still shows a conditioned fear response the sight of a knife. His conditioned reaction best indicates that he retains a _______ memory

Answer 4

Implicit

Question 5

Hearing the word “rabbit” may lead people to spell the broken word “hair” as “Hare.” This best illustrates the outcome of a process known as

Answer 5

Priming

Question 6

The address for obtaining tickets to a popular quiz show flashes on the TV screen, but the image disappears before Sergei has had a chance to write down the complete address, do you surprise, however, he has retained a momentary mental image of the five digit ZIP Code. his Experience best illustrates ________ memory.

Answer 6

Iconic

Question 7

The occasional tip of the tongue forgetting experience by older adults can be best explained in terms of the greater difficulty older people have with

Answer 7

Retrieval

Question 8

We overlearn when we connected our explicit and implicit memories T/F

Answer 8

F

Question 9

Your activated but limited capacity memory is called the ______ memory

Answer 9

Short term

Question 10

Sherry easily remembers a telephone reservation number for holiday inn by using the pneumatic one 800 holiday she’s using a memory aid known as

Answer 10

Chunking

Question 11

Philippe just completed medical school. In reflection of his years of formal education, he’s able to recall the names of all his instructors except the fifth-grade teacher fountain. According to Freud, his forgetting illustrates

Answer 11

Repression

Question 12

Oh phone Dominic rattled off a list of 10 grocery items for Kyoko to bring home from the store. Immediately after hearing a list of the items. She is most likely to forget the items

Answer 12

In the middle of the list

Question 13

The serial position effect refers to the tendency to recall best the _____ items in a list

Answer 13

Middle and last

Question 14

The ability of some Alzheimer’s patients to learn how to do something despite the fact they have no conscious recall of learning a new skill best illustrates the need to distinguish between

Answer 14

Explicit memory and implicit memory

Question 15

Which memory test would most effectively reveal that Mr. can Tonnelle at age 55 still remembers many of his high school classmates

Answer 15

Recognition

Question 16

Damage to the hippocampus would most likely interfere with a persons ability to learn

Answer 16

The names of newly introduced people

Question 17

Procedural memories for well learn skills such as how to ride a bicycle are typically ________ memories

Answer 17

Implicit

Question 18

Some of the information in our _______ memory are coded into ________ memory

Answer 18

Iconic; short term

Question 19

Jamila French school spreads study time well

Answer 19

Spacing effect

Question 20

Cerebellum is to ______ memory as hippocampus is to ______ memory

Answer 20

Implicit; explicit

Question 21

The process of encoding refers to

Answer 21

Getting information into memory

Question 22

Memories for well learned automatic skills such as how to tie your shoes are called ______ memories

Answer 22

Procedural

Question 23

When I witness to an auto accident is asked to describe what happened, which measure of memory is being used?

Answer 23

Recall

Question 24

The persistence of learning overtime most clearly depends on

Answer 24

Memory

Question 25

Recall of what you have learned is often improve when your physical surroundings at the time the retrieval and encoding are the same. This best illustrates

Answer 25

Context dependent memory

Question 26

The title of the song in the tip of Gerard’s tongue, but he cannot recall it until someone mentions a songwriters name. Gerard’s initial inability to recall the title was most likely caused bye

Answer 26

Retrieval failure

Question 27

Arnold so easily remembers it all his old girlfriend’s phone number he finds it difficult to recall his new girlfriend’s number. Arnolds difficulty best illustrates

Answer 27

Proactive interference (something from earlier blocking newer)

Question 28

The self reference affect best illustrates the value of

Answer 28

Deep processing

Question 29

After looking up his friends phone number, Alex was able to remember it only long have to dial it correctly. In this case, the phone number was clearly stored in his ______ memory

Answer 29

Short term

Question 30

A loss of encoding memory as a result of a gradual fading of the physical memory trace best illustrates

Answer 30

Storage decay

Question 31

Knowledge of facts and concepts about the world is called episodic memory T/F

Answer 31

F

Question 32

Students who study throughout the term and then restudy course material at the end of the semester to pass a comprehensive final are especially likely to demonstrate long-term retention of the course material. This best illustrates

Answer 32

Spacing effect

Question 33

A type of motivated forgetting in which anxiety arousing memories are blocked from conscious awareness is known as

Answer 33

Repression

Question 34

People should avoid back to back study times for learning Spanish and French vocabulary in order to minimize

Answer 34

Interference

Question 35

Remembering how to solve a puzzle without any conscious recollection that you can do so best illustrates ______ memory

Answer 35

Implicit

Question 36

Which neural center of the limbic system helps process explicit memories for storage

Answer 36

Hippocampus

Question 37

Or year and a half after directly experiencing a San Francisco earthquake, people had very accurate recall of where they had been and what they were doing at the time of the earthquake. This recall best illustrates _______ memory

Answer 37

Flashbulb

Question 38

Shortly after hearing a list of items, people tend to recall the last items in the list especially quickly and accurately. This best illustrates

Answer 38

A recency effect

Question 39

Repeating someone’s name several times shortly after being introduced that person is an effective strategy for

Answer 39

Rehearsal

Question 40

Rabbits fail to learn the condition I blink response when the function of different pathways in their ______ is surgically disrupted

Answer 40

Cerebellum

Question 41

Proactive interference refers to the

Answer 41

Disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information