Multiple Choice Questions

Which type of memory has an essentially limitless capacity?
  • flashbulb memories.
  • long-term memory.
  • cerebellum.
  • declarative memory.
Encoding a written word semantically rather than on the basis of the word's written appearance illustrates a distinction between:
  • implicit and explicit memory.
  • implicit.
  • Does the word rhyme with teach?
  • motivated forgetting.
Among contemporary memory researchers, increasing numbers think that ______ rarely, if ever, occurs.
  • implicit.
  • repression.
  • cerebellum.
  • retrieval cues.
An inability to retrieve information learned in the past is called:
  • flashbulb memories.
  • deep processing.
  • declarative memory.
  • retrograde amnesia.
When 80-year-old Ida looked at one of her old wedding pictures, she was flooded with vivid memories of her parents, her husband, and the early years of her marriage. The picture served as a powerful:
  • repression.
  • retrieval cue.
  • retrieval cues.
  • cerebellum.
The tendency to recall the first and last items in a list better than the middle items is known as the ________ effect.
  • serial position.
  • retrieval cue.
  • retrieval cues.
  • implicit.
After attending group therapy sessions for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, Karen mistakenly remembered details from others' traumatic life stories as part of her own life history. This best illustrates the dangers of:
  • retrieval.
  • broken glass at the scene of the accident.
  • source amnesia.
  • echoic.
When an eyewitness to an auto accident is asked to describe what happened, which measure of memory is being used?
  • cerebellum.
  • repression.
  • serial position.
  • recall.
Mood-congruent memory best illustrates that the emotions we experienced while learning something become:
  • repression.
  • retrieval cues.
  • retrieval cue.
  • cerebellum.
Explicit memory is also known as:
  • retrograde amnesia.
  • flashbulb memories.
  • long-term memory.
  • declarative memory.
Judy is embarrassed because she momentarily fails to remember a good friend's name. Judy's poor memory most likely results from a failure in:
  • source amnesia.
  • retrieval.
  • broken glass at the scene of the accident.
  • echoic.
For a moment after hearing his dog's high-pitched bark, Mr. Silvers has a vivid auditory impression of the dog's yelp. His experience most clearly illustrates ________ memory.
  • source amnesia.
  • echoic.
  • retrieval.
  • broken glass at the scene of the accident.
Research on memory construction indicates that:
  • long-term memory.
  • distorted by our current expectations.
  • it is very difficult to lead people to construct memories of events that never happened.
  • amnesia.
Compulsive gamblers frequently recall losing less money than is actually the case. Their memory failure best illustrates:
  • retrieval cues.
  • motivated forgetting.
  • implicit and explicit memory.
  • Does the word rhyme with teach?
Which part of the brain plays a key role in forming and storing the implicit memories created by classical conditioning?
  • cerebellum.
  • recall.
  • retrieval cues.
  • repression.
In the study led by Elizabeth Loftus, two groups of observers were asked how fast two cars had been going in a filmed traffic accident. Observers who heard the vividly descriptive word "smashed" in relation to the accident later recalled:
  • source amnesia.
  • broken glass at the scene of the accident.
  • retrieval.
  • echoic.
Elevated levels of stress hormones most clearly contribute to developing:
  • declarative memory.
  • flashbulb memories.
  • long-term memory.
  • retrograde amnesia.
Research on memory construction indicates that memories of past experiences are likely to be:
  • distorted by our current expectations.
  • it is very difficult to lead people to construct memories of events that never happened.
  • implicit and explicit memory.
  • Does the word rhyme with teach?
Which of the following questions would best enable you to remember that you saw the word PEACH on today's test?
  • distorted by our current expectations.
  • implicit and explicit memory.
  • Does the word rhyme with teach?
  • motivated forgetting.
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