Question 1

Professor Markus is a brilliant mathematician,who is 70 years old and still enjoys teaching.Over the past few years,she has found it increasingly difficult to remember the names of her students.Suggest several possible explanations for the professor's memory problems.

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Question 2

Repeating someone's name several times shortly after being introduced to that person is an effective strategy for

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A)  chunking. 
B)  rehearsal. 
C)  implicit memory. 
D)  automatic processing.

Question 3

Karl and Dee had a joyful wedding ceremony and reception.After their painful divorce,however,they began to remember the wedding as a somewhat hectic and unpleasant event.Their recollections best illustrate the nature of

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A)  proactive interference. 
B)  memory construction. 
C)  repression. 
D)  anterograde amnesia.

Question 4

Much of what we sense we never notice.This most clearly leads to

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A)  proactive interference. 
B)  storage decay. 
C)  repressed memories. 
D)  encoding failure.

Question 5

During the process of psychotherapy,Elaine recovered some long-forgotten and painful memories from her childhood.This experience led her to conclude that these memories must have been repressed for many years.Discuss the issues involved in assessing Elaine's claim.

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Question 6

When children are interviewed about their recollections of possible sexual abuse,their reports are especially credible if

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A)  they are asked specific,detailed questions about the issue rather than more general,open-ended questions. 
B)  after responding to an interviewer,they are repeatedly asked the same question they just answered. 
C)  they use anatomically correct dolls to indicate if and where they had been physically touched. 
D)  involved adults have not discussed the issue with them prior to the interview.

Question 7

The tip-of-the-tongue forgetting experienced by older adults can best be explained in terms of the greater difficulty older people have with

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A)  automatic processing. 
B)  repression. 
C)  positive transfer. 
D)  retrieval.

Question 8

Visualizing an object and actually seeing that object both activate similar brain areas.This most clearly contributes to

Accepted Answer

A)  anterograde amnesia. 
B)  proactive interference. 
C)  imagination inflation. 
D)  motivated forgetting.

Question 9

While taking the final exam in American history,Marie was surprised and frustrated by her momentary inability to remember the name of the current president of the United States.Her difficulty most clearly illustrates

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A)  implicit memory. 
B)  déjà vu. 
C)  the misinformation effect. 
D)  retrieval failure.

Question 10

Some patients with anterograde amnesia have learned how to spot hard-to-find figures in the Where's Waldo? series without any conscious awareness that they can do so.This best illustrates their retention of ________ memories.

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A)  explicit 
B)  implicit 
C)  retroactive 
D)  working

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

A)  source amnesia. 
B)  proactive interference. 
C)  automatic processing. 
D)  repression.

Question 12

Experimental participants viewed symbols on a computer screen without knowing that these symbols had earlier been subliminally flashed on the screen.Based on information provided in the text,it can be expected that half the participants will report experiencing

Accepted Answer

A)  the misinformation effect. 
B)  anterograde amnesia. 
C)  déjà vu. 
D)  the spacing effect.

Question 13

Becky cannot remember anything that happened during her adolescent or young adulthood years.Becky's memory difficulty illustrates

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A)  retrograde amnesia. 
B)  anterograde amnesia. 
C)  storage decay. 
D)  proactive interference.

Question 14

Although Arturo has looked at his watch thousands of times,he is unable to recall whether the watch features Arabic or Roman numerals.This is most likely because of a failure in

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A)  encoding. 
B)  storage. 
C)  retrieval. 
D)  implicit memory.

Question 15

During sleep,the brain consolidates information into ________ memory.

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A)  working 
B)  recognition 
C)  long-term 
D)  sensory

Question 16

Sigmund Freud emphasized that the forgetting of painful experiences is caused by a process that involves

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A)  retroactive interference. 
B)  memory decay. 
C)  retrieval failure. 
D)  anterograde amnesia.

Question 17

Which of the following could minimize retroactive interference of course material that will be covered on an upcoming exam?

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A)  studying before going to sleep 
B)  rehearsing information immediately before the exam 
C)  cramming for the exam the night before 
D)  using mnemonics while studying the course material

Question 18

Judy is embarrassed because she momentarily fails to remember a good friend's name.Judy's poor memory most likely results from a failure in

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

Question 19

The famous Ebbinghaus forgetting curve indicates that how well we remember information depends on

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A)  how long ago we learned that information. 
B)  the nature of our mood during encoding and retrieval. 
C)  whether the information is part of our implicit or explicit memory. 
D)  whether the information was forcibly repressed.

Question 20

The psychologist Jean Piaget constructed a vivid,detailed memory of a nursemaid's thwarting his kidnapping after hearing false reports of such an event.His experience best illustrates

Accepted Answer

A)  implicit memory. 
B)  proactive interference. 
C)  source amnesia. 
D)  repression.

Exam 25: Encoding: Getting Information In