Westen: Psychology Australian & New Zealand Edition

Chapter 07 - Multiple Choice Quiz



1.
In the opening vignette, Jimmie couldn't remember anything after 1945 because of:
A.
Korsakoff's syndrome
B.
Wernicke's aphasia
C.
Russell's polydipsia
D.
Calhoun's characteristics

2.
Verbal representations are most often:
A.
of abstract concepts
B.
recalled as visual representations
C.
expressed visually
D.
used by writers

3.
The term that describes the visual sensory register is:
A.
echoic storage
B.
motoric storage
C.
iconic storage
D.
hepatic storage

4.
As new information comes into short-term memory, old information is:
A.
transferred to long-term memory
B.
returned to sensory memory
C.
“bumped” out of short-term memory and lost
D.
chunked with the new memory

5.
Research with the fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) has indicated that working memory:
A.
is only operative during problem solving
B.
participates in the recognition of scrambles nonsense faces
C.
is a unitary function of the frontal lobes
D.
actually consists of several independent components

6.
Chunking is:
A.
a memory technique used to remember more information
B.
putting on unwanted weight
C.
used when material in short-term memory is recalled
D.
a function of long-term memory

7.
Procedural memory refers to:
A.
chunking of information in working memory
B.
memory for facts and events
C.
verbal storage representations
D.
how-to knowledge

8.
Everyday memory is:
A.
memory in the naturalistic setting
B.
the daily recall of the same information
C.
your memory of similar events in the past
D.
not worth studying

9.
Which of the following constitutes prospective memory as opposed to retrospective memory?
A.
Alicia remembers to stop at the shop on her way home from work to pick up bread and milk
B.
Caroline remembers most of the names on the list of the party guests she jotted down the previous evening
C.
Samuel recalls a series of numbers after a 20-minute respite in a laboratory setting
D.
Stephen remembers the day he became the school's new record-holder for the long-distance course

10.
Different levels of processing:
A.
are involved in rehearsal
B.
activate different neural circuits
C.
are different for recall and recognition
D.
activate the same neural circuits

11.
The encoding specificity principle implies that:
A.
retrieval is easier if the encoding and retrieval environment are similar
B.
highly specific material is recalled more easily than general material
C.
the ease of encoding is related to the ease of retrieval
D.
coding and retrieval are unrelated

12.
David is picturing his dry cleaning heaped on top of his TV, a loaf of bread hanging where the remote control usually hangs, and bills sticking of is VCR. What mnemonic is he using to remember?
A.
semantic scenario
B.
SQ3R
C.
peg method
D.
method of loci

13.
Schemas can affect the way people remember by:
A.
influencing what is encoded
B.
shaping what is reconstructed from stored memories
C.
neither a nor b
D.
both a and b

14.
Each piece of information along a network is called:
A.
a node
B.
a schema
C.
a mental representation
D.
an association

15.
Many of the “seven sins” of memory described by Schacter are:
A.
maladaptive
B.
actually irrelevant
C.
less sinful than forgetting
D.
the result of an adaptive memory process

16.
When attempting to answer the question, “How long is long-term memory?” researchers draw a distinction between availability—whether the information is still “in there”—and accessibility—the ease with which it can be retrieved. For the most part, accessibility:
A.
reflects level of activation
B.
depends on STM
C.
is logarithmically related to availability
D.
determines priming effects

17.
Decay theory says we forget:
A.
as our brains age
B.
due to the gradual loss of physiological changes due to learning
C.
because our association network becomes too complex
D.
as we learn new material of a similar nature

18.
You are a participant in a psychology experiment in which you are told to learn a list of words that will be presented to you by the experimenter. Half way through the list you are told to forget the words you have seen and just remember the last words given to you. Later, you are asked to recall both sets of words. You will:
A.
remember more from the last half but recognise words equally from both lists
B.
recall more words from the first half and recognise more as well
C.
not remember or recall any words from the first half of the list
D.
not remember words from the first half, but will recognise many of them

19.
Some of the best evidence for the existence of repressed memories comes from a study:
A.
of the memories of recent victims of abuse
B.
which showed that 17 years after their documented abuse 38% of victims did not recall the event
C.
indicating abusers often forget having committed abuse
D.
of amnesia after other traumatic events

20.
Memory loss after receiving electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is known as:
A.
retrograde amnesia
B.
anterograde amnesia
C.
proactive amnesia
D.
retroactive amnesia

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