Question 1

Recalling when the low-lying area of your farm was flooded from a nearby river would be an episodic memory.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Suppose you are a participant in memory research. You are given a list of words to read, including the word "giraffe." Later, when given the word stem "gir--" you are most likely to complete the word as ________, due to the effect of ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  girl; confabulation 
B)  giraffe; priming 
C)  giraffe; confabulation 
D)  girl; reconstruction

Question 3

Which of the following is NOT a way in which information is organized in long-term memory?

Accepted Answer

A)  semantic categories 
B)  look or sound of a word 
C)  familiarity 
D)  uniqueness

Question 4

________ is an internal representation of the world independent of any particular context.

Accepted Answer

A)  Declarative memory 
B)  Semantic memory 
C)  Procedural memory 
D)  Episodic memory

Question 5

Which of the following is NOT a circumstance that contributes to confabulation?

Accepted Answer

A)  The image of the event contains many details. 
B)  The event is easy to imagine. 
C)  You have thought about the event many times. 
D)  You focus on your emotional reactions to the event rather than on the event itself.

Question 6

When a witness expresses complete certainty about his or her report, the memory is almost always reliable.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Which of the following tests for recall?

Accepted Answer

A)  matching questions 
B)  true-false questions 
C)  multiple-choice questions 
D)  essay questions

Question 8

It seems to Madison that she has always known that sea lions got their names because of their loud roars. But she was surprised on her vacation to hear baby sea lions bleat like little lambs. Madison's knowledge about the roar of sea lions is a/an ________ memory and her memory of the bleating is a/an ________ memory.

Accepted Answer

A)  episodic; flashbulb 
B)  procedural; semantic 
C)  semantic; episodic 
D)  episodic; semantic

Question 9

During short-term memory tasks, the ________ is especially active.

Accepted Answer

A)  cerebellum 
B)  amygdala 
C)  hippocampus 
D)  frontal lobe

Question 10

In his studies of memory, Sir Frederic Bartlett found that participants who were asked to remember stories were:

Accepted Answer

A)  amazingly accurate in their recollections of details. 
B)  likely to include distortions in their reproductions. 
C)  uninfluenced by their prior knowledge and experiences. 
D)  consistent in maintaining the cultural themes of the original stories.

Question 11

Ambassador McKenzie was about to ask a French diplomat to repeat his last comment, but then the ambassador was able to "select" what had been said and ignore all the extraneous sounds in the reception room. The ambassador's auditory subsystem of ________ enabled him to do this.

Accepted Answer

A)  long-term memory 
B)  short-term memory 
C)  sensory memory 
D)  working memory

Question 12

Long-term potentiation is thought to be the biological mechanism of long-term memory.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

The narratives that we compose about our lives have a profound influence on our memories. Analyze how stories are used to provide themes to our lives.

Accepted Answer

The answer of The narratives that we compose about our...

Question 14

When rabbits are conditioned to blink their eyes in response to a tone, changes in electrical activity occur in parts of the ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  frontal lobe 
B)  hippocampus 
C)  cerebellum 
D)  medulla

Question 15

Theorists from the three-box model of memory suggest that:

Accepted Answer

A)  the identification of a stimulus on the basis of information already contained in long-term memory occurs during the transfer from sensory memory to short-term memory. 
B)  as information enters the sensory register, a huge number of processing units, operating in parallel, select information that will flow into short-term memory. 
C)  an exact sensory image is held in short-term memory so that relevant strategies from long-term memory can select information. 
D)  as new information is being perceived through the sensory register, there is a simultaneous search of long-term memory for relevant information.

Question 16

One day after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center, 54 college students were asked questions about the experience and about a mundane event that occurred within the days prior to the attack. Later, the students were contacted and once again asked about their memory of the two events. What did this research reveal about flashbulb memories?

Accepted Answer

The answer of One day after the September 11, 2001,...

Question 17

________ memory is to a photograph as ________ memory is to semantic meaning of the image.

Accepted Answer

A)  Short-term; sensory 
B)  Long-term; short-term 
C)  Long-term; sensory 
D)  Sensory; short-term

Question 18

In contrast to temporary changes associated with short-term memory, long-term memory involves lasting structural changes in the brain.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

In Chapter 4 (The Brain: Source of Mind and Self), we learned that the cerebellum, which was once considered just a motor centre, also plays a part in higher cognitive tasks. Using the information from the rabbit eye blink study in Chapter 10 (Memory?), explain how the cerebellum plays a role in memory. What kind of memory seems to involve the cerebellum? Analyze the conditioning procedure (Chapter 7: Learning and Conditioning) that Richard Thompson used in order to test his hypothesis.

Accepted Answer

The answer of In Chapter 4 (The Brain: Source of...

Question 20

The brain circuits that take part in the formation of long-term memories are not the same as those involved in long-term storage.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 10: Memory

Recalling when the low-lying area of your farm was flooded from a nearby river would be an episodic memory.

Suppose you are a participant in memory research. You are given a list of words to read, including the word "giraffe." Later, when given the word stem "gir--" you are most likely to complete the word as , due to the effect of .

Which of the following is NOT a way in which information is organized in long-term memory?

________ is an internal representation of the world independent of any particular context.

Which of the following is NOT a circumstance that contributes to confabulation?

When a witness expresses complete certainty about his or her report, the memory is almost always reliable.

Which of the following tests for recall?

During short-term memory tasks, the ________ is especially active.

In his studies of memory, Sir Frederic Bartlett found that participants who were asked to remember stories were:

Ambassador McKenzie was about to ask a French diplomat to repeat his last comment, but then the ambassador was able to "select" what had been said and ignore all the extraneous sounds in the reception room. The ambassador's auditory subsystem of ________ enabled him to do this.

Long-term potentiation is thought to be the biological mechanism of long-term memory.

The narratives that we compose about our lives have a profound influence on our memories. Analyze how stories are used to provide themes to our lives.

When rabbits are conditioned to blink their eyes in response to a tone, changes in electrical activity occur in parts of the ________.

Theorists from the three-box model of memory suggest that:

memory is to a photograph as memory is to semantic meaning of the image.

In contrast to temporary changes associated with short-term memory, long-term memory involves lasting structural changes in the brain.

The brain circuits that take part in the formation of long-term memories are not the same as those involved in long-term storage.