Week 6 - Chapter 6 & 7 Flashcards
The fact that different types of memory share mechanisms falls under the category of memory ________.
a. dissociation
b. interaction
c. division
d. specialization
b. interaction
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Which of the following types of exam questions is an example of recognition memory?
a. fill-in-the-blank
b. multiple-choice
c. short answer
d. essay
b. multiple-choice
Which of the following would be an example of auditory coding in long-term memory?
a. visualizing what the White House looked like when you saw it last summer
b. recalling the general plot of a novel you read last week
c. a song you have heard many times before, repeating over and over in your mind
d. representing the sounds of letters in the mind just after hearing them
c. a song you have heard many times before, repeating over and over in your mind
What is the upper limit for holding information in long-term memory?
a. about 15 seconds
b. about 10 years
c. about 25 years
d. no limit
d. no limit
There is contemporary research that, in addition to the hippocampus, structures in the ___ lobe may be linked with ___ memory.
a. temporal; long-term (only)
b. temporal; long- and short-term
c. occipital; long-term (only)
d. occipital; long- and short-term
b. temporal; long- and short-term
Which of the following would be an example of mental time travel?
a. thinking about how you’re going to get through a busy, stressful day
b. recollecting a trip to New York City, where you and a friend climbed to the top of the Statue of Liberty
c. planning ahead for a future vacation to Florida
d. imagining how your life might be in 5 years
b. recollecting a trip to New York City, where you and a friend climbed to the top of the Statue of Liberty
Which of the following deserves credit for the primacy effect?
a. position
b. semantics
c. coding
d. rehearsal
d. rehearsal
All of the following illustrate implicit memory EXCEPT ___.
a. semantic knowledge
b. priming
c. conditioning
d. procedural memory
a. semantic knowledge
The accuracy of recalling items in a list decreases as the length of the list increases due to which of the following?
a. abstraction
b. distraction
c. semanticization
d. dissociation
b. distraction
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Which of the following deserves credit for the recency effect?
a. episodic memory
b. semantic memory
c. short-term memory (STM)
d. long-term memory (LTM)
c. short-term memory (STM)
Identifying voxels in an fMRI scan that light up when a person sees a photo of a particular scene for the first time is an example of ________.
a. remember/know processing
b. physiological coding
c. mental time travel
d. proactive interference
b. physiological coding
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Which stimulus is most likely to be semantically coded?
a. a hot dog
b. a toy dog
c. a photo of a dog
d. a barking dog
d. a barking dog
After spending all day at the library, Kathy said, “My brain is stuffed. I can’t study anymore. Nothing I read is sticking.” Kathy is experiencing ________ interference.
a. restrictive
b. semantic
c. episodic
d. proactive
d. proactive
Henry Molaison’s inability to form lasting memories was the result of removing which part of his brain?
a. hypothalamus
b. hippocampus
c. corpus callosum
d. amygdala
b. hippocampus
What criterion did Tulving use to define the difference between semantic memories and episodic memoires?
a. veracity
b. time
c. experience
d. location
c. experience
Which of the following statements best reflects Tulving’s concept of semantic memory?
a. I live it.
b. I know it.
c. I sense it.
d. I feel it.
b. I know it.
Political propaganda is an effective tool to manage and control the public due to the effect of ________.
a. coding
b. priming
c. semanticization
d. conditioning
b. priming
Suppose you do a memory test and hear the words “shy,” “kind,” and “intelligent”—which, coincidentally, also describe your personality. Due to ___ you’d likely have good recall for these words.
a. deep processing
b. paired-associate learning
c. the generation effect
d. the self-reference effect
d. the self-reference effect
Research based on transfer-appropriate processing provides the LEAST support for ___.
a. encoding specificity
b. state-dependent learning
c. levels of processing theory
d. actually, transfer-appropriate processing supports all of these principles
c. levels of processing theory
According to the standard model of consolidation, activation in the cortex
a. does not occur at all.
b. is limited.
c. occurs in a number of different areas.
d. is unclear.
c. occurs in a number of different areas.
Simply highlighting a textbook without later reviewing it is an ineffective study method because the activity is mainly ________.
a. physical
b. elaborative
c. organizational
d. associative
a. physical
