Download Memory Unit Test! According to Freud, a type of motivated forgetting

Memory Unit Test!
1.
2.
According to Freud, a type of motivated forgetting in which anxiety-arousing memories are blocked from
conscious awareness is known as:
A)
retroactive interference.
D)
repression.
B)
proactive interference.
E)
priming.
C)
the spacing effect.
Forgetting is due to normal metabolic processes that occur in the brain over time; also, if memories are unused over
a long period of time, they begin to naturally fade away
a. Proactive interference
3.
b. short-term memory
d. generalization
c. state-dependent memory
d. working memory
c. Twelve to sixteen
d. Twenty to twenty-five
Chris, who was born and raised in Tennessee, went away to college in Illinois. When he returned to his parents'
house, he was amazed at all the childhood memories that came to mind. Chris's remembering is an example of
b. sensory memory
c. state-dependent memory
d. working memory
Complete this analogy: Fill-in-the-blank test questions are to multiple-choice questions as:
A)
B)
9.
b. sensory memory
b. Five to nine
a. Context-dependent memory
8.
b. tip of the tongue phenomenon c. encoding failure
Rachel calls her husband Ted at his office to ask him to pick up a few things at the store on the way home. She rattles
off a list of twenty-five items. The two then say good-bye and hang up. Ted reaches for pencil and paper. How many
of the twenty-five items should he be able to write down from memory without chunking?
a. Three to five
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d. long-term memory
Last month, 25 year old Roger got drunk and misplaced his glasses. He couldn't find them until today when he came
home slightly inebriated and remembered exactly where he had put them. The fact that he was able to find them
after drinking but not while he was sober demonstrates
a. Context-dependent memory
6.
c. working memory
Amanda was telling Consuela about a movie she had seen when Consuela asked who starred in the movie. Amanda
became frustrated because even though she could describe the actor, she could not think of his name. Amanda is
experiencing
a. a state dependent memory
5.
c. decay theory d. absent mindedness
Roger and Amanda go out to see a movie. Amanda tells Roger during the film, "The reason we perceive smooth
motion on the screen is because each image is held in memory long enough to allow our eyes to fixate again." What
kind of memory is Amanda talking about?
a.sensory memory
4.
b. Negative interference
encoding is to storage.
storage is to encoding.
C)
D)
recognition is to recall.
recall is to recognition.
Mrs. Thomas sent Mr. Thomas shopping without a written shopping list. Mr. Thomas had could easily remember the
familiar items he needed from Acme. He had a much more difficult time remembering the unfamiliar items he was
supposed to buy from El Nevado the Mexican-Latin grocery store.
The familiar items are easier to remember because of
a.
b.
Long-term potentiation
Rehearsal
c.
d.
Auditory encoding
Semantic encoding
10. Memories of emotional events are especially likely to be facilitated by activation of the:
A)
amygdala.
C)
sensory cortex.
B)
hypothalamus.
D)
motor cortex.
11. Donald Thompson, an Australian psychologist, was an initial suspect in a rape case. The rape victim confused her
memories of Thompson and the actual rapist because she had seen Thompson's image on TV shortly before she was
attacked. The victim's false recollection best illustrates:
A)
B)
C)
state-dependent memory.
mood-congruent memory.
the spacing effect.
D)
E)
source confusion.
the next-in-line effect.
12. Superior memory for rap lyrics that include the most rhymes best illustrates the value of:
A)
B)
C)
the next-in-line effect.
the spacing effect.
mood-congruent memory.
D)
E)
the serial position effect.
acoustic encoding.
13. To help him remember the order of ingredients in difficult recipes, master chef Giulio often associates them with the
route he walks to work each day. Giulio is using which mnemonic technique?
A)
B)
peg-word system
acronyms
C)
D)
the method of loci
chunking
14. An eyewitness to a grocery store robbery is asked to identify the suspects in a police lineup. Which test of memory is
being utilized?
A)
B)
C)
recall
relearning
recognition
D)
E)
misinformation
reconstruction
C)
a rapid initial decline in retention
becoming stable thereafter
a slow initial decline in retention
becoming rapid thereafter
15. Which of the following best describes the typical forgetting curve?
A)
B)
a steady, slow decline in retention
over time
a steady, rapid decline in retention
over time
D)
16. The smell of freshly baked bread awakened in Mr. Hutz vivid memories of his early childhood. The aroma apparently
acted as a powerful:
A)
B)
echoic memory.
retrieval cue.
C)
D)
spacing effect.
mnemonic.
17. The misinformation effect provides evidence that memory:
A)
is constructed during encoding.
B)
is unchanging once established.
C)
may be reconstructed during recall according to how questions are framed.
D)
is highly resistant to misleading information.
18. Remembering how to solve a jigsaw puzzle without any conscious recollection that one can do so best illustrates
________ memory.
A)
B)
C)
semantic
explicit
flashbulb
D)
E)
implicit
sensory
19. After reading a newspaper report suggesting that drunken driving might have contributed to a recent auto accident,
several people who actually witnessed the accident began to remember the driver involved as traveling more
recklessly than was actually the case. This provides an example of:
A)
B)
C)
proactive interference.
the serial position effect.
state-dependent memory.
D)
E)
the self-reference effect.
the misinformation effect.
20. Mr. Baker was very sad when his pet turtle was run over by a car. Now he can’t stop thinking about other sad things
that happened to him and its just making him more and more depressed. This may be due to
a.
b.
c.
Source amnesia
Repression
Mood-congruent
memory
d.
e.
Retroactive interference
The self-reference effect.
21. Conscious memory of factual information is called ________ memory.
A)
B)
C)
proactive
procedural
explicit
D)
E)
implicit
iconic
22. Tim, a third-grader, learns the sentence “George Eats Old Gray Rats And Paints Houses Yellow” to help him
remember the spelling of “geography.” Tim is using:
A)
B)
C)
a mnemonic device.
the “peg-word” system.
the spacing effect.
D)
E)
the method of loci.
the next-in-line effect.
C)
D)
lose the ability to store new facts.
experience all of the above changes.
23. After suffering damage to the hippocampus, a person would probably:
A)
B)
lose memory for skills such as
bicycle riding.
be incapable of being classically
conditioned.
24. Jamille performs better on foreign language vocabulary tests if she studies the material 15 minutes every day for 8
days than if she crams for 2 hours the night before the test. This illustrates what is known as:
A)
B)
C)
the spacing effect.
the serial position effect.
mood-congruent memory.
D)
E)
chunking.
automatic processing.
25. After learning the combination for his new locker at school, Milton is unable to remember the combination for his
year-old bicycle lock. Milton is experiencing the effects of:
A)
B)
C)
encoding failure.
source amnesia.
retroactive interference.
D)
E)
proactive interference.
automatic processing.
26. In an effort to remember how to spell “rhinoceros,” Samantha spells the word aloud 30 times. She is using a
technique known as:
A)
B)
C)
priming.
rehearsal.
the “peg-word” system.
D)
E)
chunking.
the method of loci.
27. Walking through the halls of his high school 10 years after graduation, Tom experienced a flood of old memories.
Tom's experience showed the role of:
A)
B)
state-dependent memory.
context dependent memory.
C)
D)
retroactive interference.
echoic memory.
28. When Jake applied for a driver's license, he was embarrassed by a momentary inability to remember his address.
Jake's memory difficulty most likely resulted from a(n) ________ failure.
A)
B)
C)
rehearsal
storage
encoding
D)
E)
retrieval
automatic processing
29. Participants in one experiment were given entirely fabricated accounts of an occasion in which they had been lost in
a shopping mall during their childhood. Many of these participants later falsely recollected vivid details of the
experience as having actually occurred. This experiment best illustrated:
A)
B)
C)
the self-reference effect.
mood-congruent memory.
the misinformation effect.
D)
E)
proactive interference.
the spacing effect.
30. Arnold remembers his old girlfriend’s telephone number but he finds it difficult to recall his new girlfriend’s number.
Arnold’s difficulty best illustrates:
A)
B)
C)
Retroactive interference
The next-in-line effect.
Source amnesia.
D)
E)
Proactive interference.
Repression.
31. Austin can't remember Jack Smith's name because he wasn't paying attention when Jack was formally introduced.
Austin's poor memory is best explained in terms of:
A)
B)
C)
storage decay.
proactive interference.
encoding failure.
D)
E)
retroactive interference.
source amnesia.
32. The letters D, B, O, A, H, T, G, R, E are presented. Jill remembers them by rearranging them to spell the words “DOG
BREATH.” This provides an illustration of:
A)
B)
C)
chunking.
the “peg-word” system.
automatic processing.
D)
E)
the spacing effect.
the method of loci.
33. Which of the following is the best example of a flashbulb memory?
A)
suddenly remembering to buy bread while standing in the checkout line at the grocery store
B)
recalling the name of someone from high school while looking at his or her yearbook snapshot
C)
remembering to make an important phone call
D)
remembering what you were doing on September 11, 2001, when terrorists crashed planes into the
World Trade Center towers