Quizzes Ch 7-9 from MindTap Flashcards
Suppose your final exam is just one essay question: “Describe everything you learned in this course!” What type of memory test is that?
a. Free recall
b. Savings
c. Recognition
d. Implicit
a. Free recall
Which kind of memory test are you taking right now?
a. Cued recall
b. Free recall
c. Savings
d. Recognition
d. Recognition
What can we infer from comparing several methods of testing memory?
a. If you can’t remember something now, you won’t remember it later, either.
b. Memory is like watching a video recording of the event.
c. Each memory is stored in a different location in the cerebral cortex.
d. How well you remember something depends on how someone tests you.
d. How well you remember something depends on how someone tests you.
Your memory of how to define some word is an example of what?
a. Semantic memory
b. Procedural memory
c. Implicit memory
a. Semantic memory
Remembering your most recent visit to your cousins is what type of memory?
a. Episodic memory
b. Procedural memory
c. Semantic memory
d. Implicit memory
a. Episodic memory
An experimenter reads many series of letters, such as TGWNR, and you try to recall each one later, without rehearsing during the delay. About how long would each memory probably last?
a. More than 20 seconds but less than a minute
b. A few seconds but less than 20
c. Less than a second
d. Until you tried to remember a different set of letters
b. A few seconds but less than 20
Suppose you watch the news on TV every night. According to the recency effect in memory, which of the following are you likely to remember?
a. The worst and scariest news you have ever watched
b. The best, most pleasant news you have ever watched
c. The news that was repeated on the most TV programs
d. The news that you watched last night
d. The news that you watched last night
You read a list of all the 74 state parks in Ohio and try to recall them. Which will you be LEAST likely to remember?
a. One with a common name, such as East Harbor
b. The last one on the list, Wolf Run
c. The first one on the list, Adams Lake
d. One with an unusual name, such as Mosquito Lake
a. One with a common name, such as East Harbor
What does the depth-of-processing principle relate to?
a. How the brain organizes the synapses important for memory
b. How to explain something to a child with learning disabilities
c. How to study to make something easy to remember
d. How to convert memories into action
c. How to study to make something easy to remember
You read a list of terms including “blind date.” Later someone asks you which word on the list was the name of a fruit, and you fail to think of “date.” Why?
a. Encoding specificity
b. Law of effect
c. Representativeness heuristic
d. Proactive interference
a. Encoding specificity
To remember something long term, how should you study?
a. Break up your study into many short sessions.
b. Study the material all at once.
c. Try to memorize the material by repeating it word for word.
d. Discipline yourself to read each page as quickly as possible.
a. Break up your study into many short sessions.
Suppose you have one hour to study an assignment. What will happen if you repeatedly interrupt your reading to try to answer questions about it, compared to someone who spent the whole time reading?
a. You will remember it equally well at the end of the hour, but less well later.
b. You will remember the questions but not the answers.
c. Your long-term retention will be better than that of the other person.
d. You will remember it more poorly at the end of the hour.
c. Your long-term retention will be better than that of the other person.
Which of these statements is an example of hindsight bias?
a. “We played much better last week than we did in this game.”
b. “I wish we had done better in this game.”
c. “It was obvious from the start that we were going to win this game.”
d. “I forget whether we were ahead or behind at the start of this game.”
c. “It was obvious from the start that we were going to win this game.”
Which of the following is an example of proactive interference?
a. After a severe head concussion, you have difficulty studying and remembering new information.
b. After staying in eight motel rooms in the last month, you can’t remember your room number in your current motel.
c. When you try to tell a story, you leave out odd details and fill in the gaps with reasonable expectations of what should have happened.
d. After memorizing eight poems in the last month, you can’t remember the first one you learned.
b. After staying in eight motel rooms in the last month, you can’t remember your room number in your current motel.
Which of these general points did we learn from studies of patient H.M.?
a. Electrical stimulation of certain brain areas can recover a lost memory.
b. It is possible to lose much of the brain and still function normally.
c. Different types of memory depend on different brain areas.
d. All memory information funnels through a single brain area.
c. Different types of memory depend on different brain areas.
Why do cognitive psychologists seldom rely on asking people to describe their thought processes?
a. Asking people about their thought processes would violate privacy laws.
b. It is easier to measure reaction times.
c. Cognitive psychologists are interested mainly in preverbal children.
d. People don’t always know their own thought processes.
d. People don’t always know their own thought processes.
Research on “choice blindness” supports which of these conclusions?
a. A decision that someone makes quickly is as good as one based on deliberation.
b. People who listen to too much advice have trouble making a decision.
c. After people have made a decision, they do not want to hear additional information.
d. The reason people give for a decision may have been made up afterwards.
d. The reason people give for a decision may have been made up afterwards.
What is happening when you shift your attention to something without moving your eyes?
a. The representative heuristic.
b. The availability heuristic.
c. A top-down process.
d. A bottom-up process.
c. A top-down process.
