Nora and Miles are studying for an exam. Nora makes flash cards to memorize new terms and repeatedly reads them to herself. Miles links new terms to the ones he already knows based on their meanings. Nora is using ________ and Miles is using ________ to learn the terms.
maintenance rehearsal; elaborative rehearsal
elaborative rehearsal; maintenance rehearsal
semantic memory; procedural memory
procedural memory; semantic memory
Question 2
Which of the following is a type of explicit memory?
Ali’s previous boyfriend was name Sam and her new boyfriend is named Stan. When she accidentally calls her now boyfriend by the name of Sam, she explains to him that her mistake was due to:
proactive interference
retroactive interference
anterograde amnesia
retrograde amnesia
Question 4
Kumar works part-time at a campus coffee shop. One day his psychology professor from last semester comes in and Kumar takes her order. While he is making the professor’s coffee, Kumar tries to remember the professor’s name. Right now Kumar is accessing two types of memory storage: to complete the coffee order and to remember the professor’s name.
working memory; sensory storage.
short-term storage; long-term storage
working memory; long-term storage.
sensory storage; long-term storage
Question 5
Igor has not been skiing in 10 years. However, when he gets on his skis, his body remembers exactly how to ski. The kind of memory that makes it possible for him to remember how to ski is:
episodic.
semantic.
explicit.
procedural.
Question 6
Which of the following actions is an example of prospective memory?
planning to pick up a library book on your way home tomorrow
daydreaming about your date next Friday
remembering what you did last weekend
learning historical dates for your exam tomorrow
Question 7
If someone asks you to describe what a school is, you would most likely retrieve a(n) ________ memory.
episodic
implicit
semantic
procedural
Question 8
Inattention and the shallow encoding of events can often result in ________, which leads to forgetting.
suggestibility
persistence
blocking
absentmindedness
Quiz #4 Memory-Question 9
Laden has a memory of getting a teddy bear at a childhood birthday party. However, she cannot remember who gave it to her or at which birthday she received it. Laden is experiencing:
cryptomnesia
retrograde amnesia
misattribution
anterograde amnesia
Question 10
When Jon visits his grandmother’s house, he always thinks about his childhood. Something about the way her house smells seems to trigger these memories. This is an example of ________ memory.
state-dependent
context-dependent
suggestibility.
semantic
Question 11
Aman has anterograde amnesia. However, he can still remember how to ride a bicycle and how to tie his shoes, because his ________ memory is still intact.
explicit episodic
explicit procedural
implicit episodic
implicit procedural
Question 12
You have been away attending college for three months. When you return home for the winter break, your family dog recognized you immediately. Your dog responded this way because his brain:
encoded the visual information about what you look like.
created a mental video recording of what you look like.
assessed the information already stored in his brain about what you look like.
stored the information about what you look like.
Question 13
When you watch a movie, you are relying on multiple memory stores. storage gives you the perception of many brief, still images as a single moving image. storage lets you maintain the events of the plot in your memory and understand the story as you watch.short-term; sensory
sensory; short-term
sensory; long-term
short term; long-term
Question 14
People find it easier to put on a button-down shirt but much harder to write out instructions for putting on a button-down shirt. This difference suggests that memory is typically an memory.
procedural; explicit
episodic; explicit
procedural; implicit
episodic; implicit
Question 15
When you are reading your textbook, your brain changes the words you are reading into a meaningful neural code that it can use. In memory, this process is called:
attention.
storage.
encoding.
retrieval.
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