Ch. 9 multiple choice – Flashcards
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1. After suffering a brain injury in a motorcycle accident, Adam cannot form new memories. He can, however, remember his life experiences before the accident. Adam's memory difficulty most clearly illustrates:
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encoding failure.
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2. The extensive rehearsal necessary to encode nonsense syllables best illustrates:
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effortful processing
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3. At a block party, Cyndi 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:
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the serial position effect.
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4. 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:
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semantic encoding.
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5. It is easier to remember "what sobriety conceals, alcohol reveals" than to recall "what sobriety conceals, alcohol unmasks." This best illustrates the value of:
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acoustic encoding.
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6. Employing the single word "HOMES" to remember the names of North America's five Great Lakes best illustrates the use of:
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a mnemonic device.
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7. Which of the following is believed to be the synaptic basis for learning and memory?
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long-term potentiation
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8. Memories of emotional events are especially likely to be facilitated by activation of the:
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amygdala.
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9. Mr. Nydam 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:
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explicit memory and implicit memory.
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10. 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:
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recognition
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11. The happier Judie is, the more readily she recalls experiences with former teachers who were warm and generous. This best illustrates that emotional states can be:
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retrieval cues.
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12. During her evening Spanish language exam, Janica 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:
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proactive interference.
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13. Mrs. McBride can't consciously recall how frequently she criticizes her children because it would be too anxiety-arousing to do so. Sigmund Freud would have suggested that her poor memory illustrates:
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repression.
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14. After Teresa was verbally threatened by someone in a passing car, she was questioned as to whether she recognized the man who was driving the car. Several hours later, Teresa mistakenly recalled that the driver was a male rather than a female. Teresa's experience best illustrates:
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the misinformation effect.
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15. Recalling something that you had once merely imagined happening as something you had directly experienced best illustrates:
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source amnesia.
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1. 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.
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flashbulb
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2. When you hear familiar words in your native language, it is virtually impossible not to register the meanings of the words. This best illustrates the importance of:
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automatic processing.
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3. An understanding of the spacing effect provides insight into effective strategies for:
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rehearsal
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4. Ebbinghaus observed that it is much easier to learn meaningful material than to learn nonsense material. This best illustrates the advantage of:
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semantic encoding
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5. The method of loci relies heavily on the use of:
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visual encoding.
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6. The combination of individual letters into familiar words enables you to remember more of the letters in this sentence. This best illustrates the value of:
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chunking.
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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.
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short-term
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8. Which of the following is most likely to be stored as an implicit memory?
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a conditioned fear of guns
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9. Certain patients with amnesia 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:
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hippocampus
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10. In an effort to recall his early life experiences, Aaron formed vivid mental images of the various rooms in his childhood home. Aaron was engaging in the process of:
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priming.
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11. Whenever Valerie experiences intense feelings of fear, she is overwhelmed with childhood memories of her abusive parents. Valerie's experience best illustrates:
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mood-congruent memory.
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12. While taking the final exam in her American history class, Marie 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:
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retrieval failure.
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13. Although Ron typically smokes two packs of cigarettes a day, he recalls smoking little more than a pack a day. This poor memory best illustrates:
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motivated forgetting.
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14. The surprising ease with which people form false memories best illustrates that the processes of encoding and retrieval involve:
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memory construction.
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15. Several months after watching a science fiction movie about spaceship travel and alien abductions, Steve 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:
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source amnesia.
