Pysc 350

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1. Which of the following is not a stage in the information processing model of memory?
Episodic memory
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2. A person who is activating their visuospatial sketch pad is likely to say which of the following?
"I can see it in my mind's eye"
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3. A lesson to be learned from the research on flashbulb memories is that
they are permanent and resist forgetting
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4. The results of the demonstration about doing laundry illustrate the importance of ______ in forming reliable long-term memories.
Organizational context
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5. The telephone game shows how memory is a _____
Constructive
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6. Hebb's idea of long-term potentiation includes the idea of
increased firing in the neurons
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7. According to the typicality effect,
items that are high in prototypicality are judged more rapidly as being in a group
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8. Which of the following stimulus characteristics most challenges the processing capacity of short-term memory?
Complexity
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9. Lucille's learned skills in teaching racquetball are an example of ______ memory.
Procedural
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10. Which concept exemplifies refining mental functioning models based on new results?
replacing the short-term memory component of the modal model with working memory
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11. A specific concept represented by activity distributed over many units in a network is a key property of the _____ approach.
Connectionist
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12. Research suggests that the capacity of short-term memory is
somewhat small, holding only about seven items at one time
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13. Sperling's delayed partial report procedure provided evidence that
I remember seeing a volcano erupt in Hawaii last summer
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14. Which of the following is an example of a semantic memory?
I remember the big island of Hawaii has many active volcanoes
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15. The difference in identifying a bird and a sparrow is an example of
how knowledge affects categorization
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16. Retrograde amnesia is usually less severe for _______ memories.
Remote
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17. Which of the following represents a basic level item?
Guitar
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18. Cognitive economy is the idea that shared properties of an object are only stored at the ________ level nodes in a semantic network.
Higher
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19. Using the word "HOMES" as a cue for remembering the Great Lakes is an example of
Elaborative rehearsal
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20. Working memory differs from short-term memory in that
working memory has central executive function
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21. Autobiographical memory research shows more brain activation when viewing photos
the person took himself or herself
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22. Wickens et al.'s "fruit, meat, and professions" experiment failed to show a release from proactive interference in the "fruit" group because
the stimulus category remained the same
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23. ____ transforms new memories from a fragile state to a more permanent state.
Consolidation
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24. Treatment of PTSD has benefited from recent research on
Reconsolidation
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25. It is easier to perform two tasks simultaneously if
one is handled by visuospatial sketch pad and one is handled by the phonological loop
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26. When investigating the serial position curve, delaying the memory test for 30 seconds
decreases the recency effect
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27. Rehearsal is important for transferring information from
short-term memory to long-term memory
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28. One of the defining characteristics of implicit memory is that
people are not conscious they are using it
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29. ___ is a "typical" member of a category
An exemplar
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30. According to the levels of processing theory, memory durability depends on the at which information is
Encoded
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31. Funahashi's work on monkeys doing a delayed response task examined the role of neurons in the
prefrontal cortex
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32. The principle that we encode information together with its context is known as encoding
Specificity
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33. The misinformation effect occurs when a person's memory for an event is modified by misleading information presented
all of the above
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34. The primary effect is attributed to
recall of information stored in long-term memory
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35. Research on eyewitness testimony reveals that
an eyewitness's confidence can be increased by an authority's confirmation of her choice, even when the choice is wrong
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36. A person with reduced digit span would most likely have a problem with
short-term memory
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37. Explicit memory is to ______ as implicit memory is to ____
aware; unaware
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38. In the "word list" false memory experiment, false memory occurs because of
verbatim recall
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39. Based on research on the reminiscence bump, asking people to recall the most influential events shows that ____ in people's lives appear to be particularly memorable
Transition points
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40. How would Broadbent describe Jamal's actions of repeating a list over and over to himself?
Rehearsal in short-term memory
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41. The dramatic case of patient H.M clearly illustrates that _____ is crucial for the formation of memories.
the hippocampus
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42. Freebie! This is a test of attention. Select "A" to get this question correct
A
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43. The experience of seeing a trail of light from a moving flashlight is due to
Persistence of vision
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44. K.C., who was injured in a motorcycle accident, remembers facts but not personal experiences, demonstrating
a distinction between semantic and episodic memory
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