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Psychology 101
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1) What was Hermann Ebbinghaus’s contribution to the study of memory? a) He located the brain areas most important for memory. d) He was the first to do experiments to measure memory. | D |
| 2) Comparing several methods of testing memory leads to which of these conclusions? a) People who learn something in school usually forget it in real life. d) People might or might not remember something, depending on how we test them. | D |
| 3) If asked to tell your social security number (without looking it up), you are being asked to perform which type of memory test? a) free recall b) savings c) recognition d) implicit | A |
| 4) Your history professor gives you a list of the initials of all the U.S. presidents and vice presidents and asks you to fill in the names. What kind of memory test is this? a) recognition b) free recall c) cued recall d) savings | C |
| 5) After you witness a robbery, the police show you several photographs and ask whether any of them was the thief. They are checking your memory by which method? a) implicit memory b) recognition c) savings d) cued recall | B |
| 6) You cannot remember the geography you learned in junior high school. Someone tests whether you can relearn it faster than the first time. Which type of memory test is this? a) savings b) free recall c) recognition d) cued recall | A |
| 7) One unusual feature of implicit memory is that a) brain damage is more likely to impair implicit memory than any other memory type. b) people can display implicit memory without realizing that they are using memory. | B |
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| 9) When you remember how to tie your shoes, what type of memory is this? a) factual b) procedural c) state dependent d) episodic Answer: b | B |
| 10) In what way is identifying a suspect from a lineup similar to taking a multiple choice test? c) Both are a form of a recognition memory test. d) Both are a form of an implicit memory test. | C |
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| 12) Someone asks you what time it is. You check your watch and answer. A few seconds later, after you have been distracted, someone asks what time you said it was. You have forgotten. According totraditional information-processing b) short term | B |
| 13) Your memory of the rules of basketball or golf is a type of a) semantic memory b) implicit memory c) episodic memory d) procedural memory | A |
| 14) Memory of a specific experience such as graduating from high school is known as a) episodic memory b) procedural memory c) semantic memory d) implicit memory | A |
| 15) Which of the following is an example of episodic memory? a) remembering the name of your elementary school d) remembering what happened your first day of elementary school | D |
| 16) Remembering a specific event in your life is _____ memory. Remembering a fact or principle is _____ memory. a) implicit…procedural b) episodic…semantic c) semantic…episodic d) procedural…implicit | B |
| 17) You want to remember a shopping list of 9 items. To aid memory, you group them as 3 fruits, 3 vegetables, and 3 dairy items. This strategy makes use of a) flashbulb memory b) the von Restorff effect c) chunking d) encoding specificity | C |
| 18) You are given a list of grocery items to remember on your trip to the store. These items are: apples, bread, celery, lettuce, grapes, and onions. According to the recency effect, what item are you most likely to remember? c) onions d) apples | C |
| 19) When you memorize a list of words, which words are you most likely to remember? a) those at the beginning and end of the list. b) those that you learned as an adult. | A |
| 20) When you are studying something, how could you increase your depth of processing? a) Think about how it relates to other things you know and care about. b) Study while listening to music, early in the morning. | A |
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