Question 1

When a person's ____________is damaged or removed,anterograde amnesia,or the inability to form new memories,results.

Accepted Answer

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

Question 2

What are the five primary tastes?

Accepted Answer

A) hot,sour,spicy,sweet,umami 
B) salty,sour,spicy,sweet,tart 
C) bitter,salty,sour,sweet,umami 
D) peppery,salty,sour,sweet,bitter

Question 3

A research study found that if you study on land,you do better when tested on land,and if you study underwater,you do better when tested underwater.This finding is an example of:

Accepted Answer

A) state-dependent learning. 
B) primacy effect. 
C) encoding specificity. 
D) recency effect.

Question 4

When people hear a sound,their ears turn the vibrations in the air into neural messages from the auditory nerve,which makes it possible for the brain to make sense of the sound.This process is called:

Accepted Answer

A) encoding. 
B) storage. 
C) retrieval. 
D) interpretation.

Question 5

Decay theory works well to explain forgetting in:

Accepted Answer

A) sensory memory and long-term memory. 
B) short-term memory and long-term memory. 
C) long-term memory only. 
D) sensory memory and short-term memory.

Question 6

The mental process of converting sensory information into neural impulses is called:

Accepted Answer

A) transducton. 
B) sensation. 
C) perception. 
D) consciousness.

Question 7

Which memory system provides us with a very brief representation of all the stimuli present at a particular moment?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 8

_________________ is the tendency for older or previously learned material to interfere with the retrieval of newer,more recently learned material.

Accepted Answer

A) Encoding failure 
B) Proactive interference 
C) Disuse interference 
D) Retroactive interference

Question 9

You are out for a drive with the family and are lucky enough to get a window seat.The rapidly passing scenery you see out the window is first stored in _____________ memory.

Accepted Answer

A) echoic 
B) iconic 
C) working 
D) short-term

Question 10

When given a list of items to remember,people tend to do better at recalling the first items on the list than the middle of the list.This is known as the ______ effect.

Accepted Answer

A) serial position 
B) recency 
C) misinformation 
D) primacy

Question 11

It's Thanksgiving and the whole family has gotten together.You start to reminisce about your childhood and get into an argument with your brother.Both of you claim that you were the innocent victim of the other.This argument is an example of:

Accepted Answer

A) constructive processing. 
B) the curve of forgetting.. 
C) memory trace decay. 
D) the misinformation effect.

Question 12

When newer information interferes with the retrieval of older information,this is called proactive interference.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 6: Memory