Psychology Chapter 7 Flashcards
As your friend reads her shopping list to you in her apartment, you are aware that the radio is playing in the background. The fact that you remember what your friend said and not what the announcer on the radio said can be attributed to
selective attention.
constructive processing.
redintegrative memory.
short-term memory.
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To learn her psychology terms, Felesia just repeats the terms’ definitions over and over again. This illustrates
decay encoding.
bit processing.
rote rehearsal.
elaborative processing.
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If you are trying to recall the concept “visual illusion” for your psychology exam, you are more likely to mistakenly write “visual misinterpretation” than “visceral illusion” because information for your psychology exam is most likely stored in long-term memory
procedurally.
phonetically.
on the basis of meaning.
on the basis of visual images.
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When European-American and Chinese adults were asked to recall 20 memories from any time in their lives, the memories of the American adults tended to be focused on
important social and historical events.
individual, self-centered memories.
more recent events.
events from their childhood.
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Extremely traumatic experiences, such as military combat, can result in memories and “flashbacks” that leave a person emotionally handicapped because they produce so much activation in which part of the brain?
limbic system
pons
hippocampus
frontal lobes
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Once declarative memories are formed, they appear to be stored in which part of the brain?
cerebral cortex
hypothalamus
cerebellum
basal ganglia
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The key idea in redintegration is that
more errors in remembering occur on the middle items in an ordered list.
one memory serves as a cue to trigger another.
more recent memories are easier to retrieve than long past memories.
recoding and chunking are required for information to be stored in long-term memory.
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When you tie your shoes, you draw upon which of the following?
Semantic memory
Explicit memory
Implicit memory
Episodic memory
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Which of the following methods of measuring memory is being used when a student is required to recite poetry or the lines of a famous play verbatim?
recognition
relearning
serial position
recall
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en days after taking a psychology exam, Michael took a second exam on the same material (without reviewing) and scored only half as high as he did on the original exam. If he were tested yet again ten days later, the curve of forgetting suggests his score would be about
the same as on the second exam.
20 percent of his score on the first exam.
one half of his score on the second exam.
one third of his score on the first exam.
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Research has found that information that people learn under the influence of a drug is best remembered when the drugged state occurs again. This laboratory experiment illustrates
state-dependent learning.
recollection after disuse.
the tip-of-the-tongue state.
cue-dependent learning.
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Kim is having trouble remembering her old phone number even though she had that number for ten years. It seems that her current phone number that she has had for two years is keeping her from remembering her old phone number. This is called
retroactive interference.
suppression.
memory decay.
proactive interference.
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During your first presentation in speech class, you experienced an embarrassing moment as you lost your place. It is now three weeks later, and you are about to make your second speech. As you wait your turn, you try to consciously push the disastrous first speech out of your mind. This illustrates
repression.
suppression.
transfer of training.
interference.
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Mr. S the mnemonist had exceptional semantic memory. One problem with having his ability was that he had to devise ways to ___________.
forget unimportant information
remember important autobiographical memories
remember less meaningful information like strings of digits
dispel flashbulb memories
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The filmed automobile accident study conducted by Loftus and Palmer illustrated that
new information can be integrated into memory and create false memories.
logical interference and information processing combine to encode visually detailed memories.
memory traces are permanent and overwhelmingly accurate.
memory is, in fact, just like a video recorder.
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