CHAPTER 7 – PRACTICE TEST
1.
Three basic processes involved in the act of remembering are:
a. exposure, attention, and retention
b. encoding, storage, and retrieval
c. stimulus, interpretation, and response
d. acquisition, application, and extinction
2.
Consider this sentence: “Sean was able to get the dog to come out from under the
abandoned house by shaking a bag of dog food.” In order for you to consciously make
sense out of the sentence, the information was processed in your:
a. sensory memory
b. short-term memory
c. long-term memory
d. cerebellum
3.
Which of the following is the name of the physiological change in the brain that allows
information to be stored?
a. habituation
b. conditioning
c. memory alteration
d. consolidation
4.
Information from
and from
is transferred to and processed in short-term
memory.
a. sensory memory; nondeclarative memory
b. long-term memory; nondeclarative memory
c. sensory memory; long-term memory
d. working memory; recognition memory
5.
Transforming information into a form that can be stored in memory is called
bringing the material that has been stored to mind is called
.
a. encoding; decoding
b. consolidation; retrieval
c. consolidation; decoding
d. encoding; retrieval
6.
Because she didn’t have a piece of paper handy, Mary mentally repeated the long distance
number over and over. Mary was trying to keep the information in:
a. sensory memory
b. long-term memory
c. short-term memory
d. nondeclarative memory
;
7.
Which of the following numbers best represents the number of separate items that can be
held in the short-term memory?
a. 3
b. 7
c. 5
d. 10
8.
The amount of information that can be held in long-term memory:
a. depends on the amount of rehearsal performed on the information
b. seems to be limitless
c. is approximately 7 bits of information
d. varies depending upon the type of information being stored
9.
The process of combining separate pieces of information into large units in short-term
memory is referred to as:
a. encoding
b. chunking
c. recall
d. consolidation
10.
Adam vividly remembers when he had to go to the emergency room for stitches. This is
an example of which type of information stored in long-term memory?
a. nondeclarative
b. semantic
c. contextual
d. episodic
11.
Jeff is able to ride a bicycle although he hasn’t ridden for a few years, thanks to his:
a. nondeclarative memory
b. episodic memory
c. cognitive memory
d. semantic memory
12.
Collette could not remember the name of the husband of a very important client. So,
Collette began reciting the alphabet until a letter jarred her memory, and she could
remember the name. The letter of the alphabet:
a. served as a nondeclarative memory that caused retrieval of the information
b. is an example of recognition
c. is a procedural memory cue
d. served as a retrieval cue
13.
The memory for events we have experienced personally is known as:
a. nondeclarative memory
b. semantic memory
c. iconic memory
d. episodic memory
14.
While Brian was drunk at an office party, he hid his car keys so they wouldn’t get stolen.
The next day, Brian couldn’t recall where he hid his keys and had to get a new set of keys
made for his car. When Brian got drunk again at a jazz festival three weeks later, he
remembered where he hid his car keys. This example illustrates:
a. source confusion
b. state-dependent memory
c. environmental context
d. consolidation
15.
The memory that stores general knowledge and concepts, ideas, and rules about the world
is called the:
a. episodic memory
b. nondeclarative memory
c. cognitive memory
d. semantic memory
16.
In a study of more than a thousand convictions in which the people turned out to be
innocent of the crime, the largest factor leading to the false convictions was:
a. anterograde amnesia
b. hypnotically-induced false memories
c. state-dependent retrieval errors
d. eyewitness error
17.
Recall differs from recognition in that recall:
a. taps short-term memory as well as long-term memory
b. maximizes retrieval cues
c. requires few or no retrieval cues
d. is a more sensitive method of measuring memory
18.
On a visit to his mother’s home, Steve’s mother introduced him to her new next-door
neighbor. After chatting with the neighbor for a few minutes, Steve realized that he could
not remember the new neighbor’s name. The MOST likely explanation for Steve forgetting
the neighbor’s name is:
a. proactive interference
b. retrieval failure
c. encoding failure
d. decay
19.
When 4-year-old Josh can recite his alphabet, he is using:
a. free recall
b. serial recall
c. relearning
d. structured recall
20.
As Rick was filling out the loan application, he couldn’t remember his previous address
even though he had lived there for 5 years. Rick’s memory of his current address was
interfering with his memory of his old address, which is an example of:
a. encoding failure
b. the misinformation effect
c. proactive interference
d. retroactive interference
21.
All of the following test items are recognition questions except:
a. multiple-choice questions
b. matching questions
c. true-false questions
d. essay questions
22.
Marcy was stood up by her date for the senior prom. She tried not to dwell on the painful
experience, and after a few years she could remember only a few details of that
humiliating evening. Marcy’s deliberate attempt to forget that evening is an example of:
a. interference
b. decay
c. repression
d. motivated forgetting
23.
Yolanda has witnessed a robbery, and the police have asked her to identify the guilty
person in a police lineup. Yolanda is performing a:
a. recall task
b. recognition task
c. relearning task
d. savings task
24.
Spacing your study sessions is to
as cramming the night before is to
a. rehearsal; consolidation
b. massed practice; spaced practice
c. serial position effect; proactive interference
d. spaced practice; massed practice
25.
Although you may seem to forget all of the material on this exam, you do retain something
because you will not have to study it as much for the comprehensive final. This is an
example of which method of measuring memory?
a. recognition
b. recall
c. serial recall
d. relearning
.
26.
When a person fails to remember because the information was never put into long-term
memory, which of the following has occurred?
a. consolidation failure
b. encoding failure
c. retrieval failure
d. motivated forgetting
27.
In college, Kate is having difficulty learning Spanish because the French words she
learned in high school keep coming to mind. This is an example of:
a. interference
b. displacement
c. consolidation failure
d. decay
28.
What is the memory that is not an exact replica of an event, but one that has been pieced
together from several highlights and using information that may or may not be accurate?
a. hyperamnesia
b. schematization
c. metamemory
d. reconstruction
29.
The inability of older children and adults to recall events from the first few years of life is
known as:
a. infantile amnesia
b. repressed memory syndrome
c. motivated forgetting
d. retrograde amnesia
30.
If you are trying to remember details about an event that happened in your kitchen, it
would be most helpful to:
a. return to the kitchen so the context helps you to recall
b. leave the kitchen so that current cues do not interfere with recalling the event
c. picture yourself in the kitchen as you try to recall the event
d. think about something else for a while
31.
Sensory memory holds a limited amount of information that enters from the environment
for approximately 20 seconds.
a. True
b. False
32.
Short-term memory is also called working memory.
a. True
b. False
33.
The maximum duration of short-term memory is about 30 seconds, unless the information
is actively rehearsed.
a. True
b. False
34.
If information in the short-term memory is not actively rehearsed, then the information is
automatically transferred to the long-term memory.
a. True
b. False
35.
Massed practice, or “cramming”, the night before a big test is one of the most efficient
ways to study and learn new information.
a. True
b. False
36.
Briefly describe the three types of memory, and explain how these types interact with one
another.
37.
Name the different types of long-term memory and define each. Provide an original
example of each type.
38.
Identify and describe two factors that influence forgetting.
39.
Identify four ways to improve memory.
40.
What is a flashbulb memory? How is it different from an ordinary memory?
CHAPTER 6 PRACTICE TEST ANSWERS
1. B
2. B
3. D
4. C
5. D
6. C
7. B
8. B
9. B
10. D
11. A
12. D
13. D
14. B
15. D
16. D
17. C
18. C
19. B
20. D
21. D
22. D
23. B
24. D
25. D
26. B
27. A
28. D
29. A
30. A
31. B
32. A
33. A
34. B
35. B
36-40. ANSWERS WILL VARY