Question 1

The items on this test illustrate which method of testing memory?

Accepted Answer

A) cued recall 
B) savings 
C) recognition 
D) free recall

Question 2

Memories that concern events that are highly significant and are vividly remembered are called __________.

Accepted Answer

A) elaborative rehearsals 
B) flashbulb memories 
C) eidetic images 
D) eyewitness images

Question 3

Chunking is a means of _______.

Accepted Answer

A) immediately forgetting irrelevant details 
B) organizing information into meaningful units 
C) arranging details into a hierarchy from most important to least important 
D) storing long-term memories

Question 4

Iconic and echoic memory are types of _______ memory.

Accepted Answer

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

Question 5

Encoding is:

Accepted Answer

A) recalling information. 
B) recognizing information. 
C) representing information. 
D) remembering information.

Question 6

What is the capacity of short-term memory?

Accepted Answer

A) five,plus or minus two letters 
B) seven,plus or minus two chunks 
C) five,plus or minus two engrams 
D) seven,plus or minus two numbers

Question 7

Memories that concern events that are highly significant and are vividly remembered are called _______.

Accepted Answer

A) eidetic images 
B) elaborative rehearsals 
C) flashbulb memories 
D) eyewitness images

Question 8

What is the capacity of short-term memory?

Accepted Answer

A) 7 bits of information 
B) 7 chunks of information 
C) 12 letters,if measured by Sperling's partial report technique 
D) 16 letters,if measured by Sperling's partial report technique

Question 9

Deciding what information to store and how to represent it is known as:

Accepted Answer

A) remembering. 
B) decoding. 
C) encoding. 
D) recall.

Question 10

Which type of memory is concerned with remembering the day your parents bought you a car?

Accepted Answer

A) implicit memory 
B) semantic memory 
C) episodic memory 
D) procedural memory

Question 11

On a TV game show,Jeannette is asked to name the state capital of Vermont.This information is most likely stored in ______.

Accepted Answer

A) procedural memory 
B) semantic memory 
C) episodic memory 
D) eidetic memory

Question 12

When Rip Van Winkle returns to his native village,after 20 years of sleeping in the mountains,he goes immediately to the location of his former house and asks for his wife and children by name.The kind of memory that he is exhibiting is _______.

Accepted Answer

A) procedural memory 
B) semantic memory 
C) episodic memory 
D) eidetic memory

Question 13

Retroactive interference of long-term memory means __________.

Accepted Answer

A) new material interferes with memory of old material 
B) new material has suppressed short-term memories 
C) old material interferes with memory of new material 
D) old material has eliminated memories of new material

Question 14

Your memories of personal information such as what you wore to work yesterday,what you ate for breakfast this morning,or who your spouse is,are stored in ______.

Accepted Answer

A) procedural memory 
B) semantic memory 
C) episodic memory 
D) eidetic memory

Question 15

"Old information inhibits one's ability to remember newer information" defines _________.

Accepted Answer

A) interference 
B) retroactive inhibition 
C) proactive inhibition 
D) suppression

Question 16

An individual's semantic memory contains:

Accepted Answer

A) memories about events. 
B) background knowledge about words,symbols,concepts,and rules arranged as hierarchies of information in categories and subordinate categories. 
C) autobiographical information about one's previous experiences. 
D) the order and sequence of information from specific to general.

Question 17

Unprocessed stimulation from the environment is first held in:

Accepted Answer

A) short-term store. 
B) sensory memory. 
C) long-term store. 
D) intermediate store.

Question 18

Most people cannot store the following list of letters in short-term memory. G O T O Y O U R B E D R O O M
However,if the letters are grouped meaningfully into words,they fit short-term's memory span: Go to your bedroom.This illustrates _________.

Accepted Answer

A) chunking 
B) backward masking 
C) verbal coding 
D) selective attention

Question 19

Memory is:

Accepted Answer

A) a capacity for learning. 
B) a system that allows people to retain information over time. 
C) an ability of humans only. 
D) unchangeable.

Question 20

Which of the following is an example of semantic memory?

Accepted Answer

A) events 
B) concepts 
C) time 
D) place

Exam 8: Memory

The items on this test illustrate which method of testing memory?

Memories that concern events that are highly significant and are vividly remembered are called __________.

Chunking is a means of _______.

Iconic and echoic memory are types of _______ memory.

Encoding is:

What is the capacity of short-term memory?

Memories that concern events that are highly significant and are vividly remembered are called _______.

What is the capacity of short-term memory?

Deciding what information to store and how to represent it is known as:

Which type of memory is concerned with remembering the day your parents bought you a car?

On a TV game show,Jeannette is asked to name the state capital of Vermont.This information is most likely stored in ______.

When Rip Van Winkle returns to his native village,after 20 years of sleeping in the mountains,he goes immediately to the location of his former house and asks for his wife and children by name.The kind of memory that he is exhibiting is _______.

Retroactive interference of long-term memory means __________.

Your memories of personal information such as what you wore to work yesterday,what you ate for breakfast this morning,or who your spouse is,are stored in ______.

"Old information inhibits one's ability to remember newer information" defines _________.

An individual's semantic memory contains:

Unprocessed stimulation from the environment is first held in:

Most people cannot store the following list of letters in short-term memory. G O T O Y O U R B E D R O O M However,if the letters are grouped meaningfully into words,they fit short-term's memory span: Go to your bedroom.This illustrates _________.

Memory is:

Which of the following is an example of semantic memory?