Question 1

Although the patient H.M.suffered severe amnesia,he remained fairly normal in his ability to learn

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A)  the meanings of new words.
B)  new factual information.
C)  new skills.
D)  the names of people who have become famous since his operation.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 2

The levels-of-processing principle distinguishes between

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A)  short-term and sensory memory.
B)  strengths of various long-term memories.
C)  the location in the brain in which various memories are stored.
D)  retroactive and proactive interference.E) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 3

When modern-day college students memorize one of the lists that Ebbinghaus memorized,what is generally true about the rate of forgetting?

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A)  College students forget the items on the list much quicker than Ebbinghaus did.
B)  College students forget at about the same rate Ebbinghaus did.
C)  College students remember the items better than Ebbinghaus did.
D)  College students forget at a faster rate than Ebbinghaus,but show more spontaneous recovery.E) A) and B)
F) A) and D)

Question 4

After students graduate from college,what happens to their memory of a foreign language that they studied in college?

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A)  They continue to remember it without any loss for the rest of their lives.
B)  Their memory fades for the first 3 to 6 years and remains fairly stable from then on.
C)  Their memory fades gradually and steadily throughout the rest of their lives.
D)  Their memory remains stable for the first 3 to 6 years and then begins to fade steadily from then on.E) None of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 5

The capacity of short-term memory for most normal adults is about seven items.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Hindsight bias is the tendency to

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A)  overestimate how likely some event had seemed,after we know it already happened.
B)  dislike the people who dislike us.
C)  alter our perceptions and memories to match those of the other people we know.
D)  remember pleasant events and forget unpleasant ones.E) A) and B)
F) A) and D)

Question 7

Your friend asks,"What's the name of our chemistry lab instructor? I think it's Kathy or Karen something." If you answer correctly that it is Kathy Katzenjammer,which kind of memory are you displaying?

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A)  implicit memory
B)  source amnesia
C)  savings
D)  cued recallE) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

Question 8

One conclusion that emerges from all the research on brain damage and amnesia is that we clearly have different types of memory.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Psychologists interested in studying repressed memories examined 16 children who were known to have witnessed the murder of one of their parents.What were the results of this study?

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A)  Every child in the study denied any memory of the murder.
B)  Most children in the study repressed the memories,which were later recovered under hypnosis.
C)  Most children in the study repressed the memories,which spontaneously began to resurface after around 10 years.
D)  None of the children showed any signs of repression.E) A) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 10

If asked to tell your social security number (without looking it up),you are being asked to perform a ____________________ memory test.
free recall

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The answer of If asked to tell your social security...

Question 11

When Ebbinghaus pioneered the experimental study of memory,the information he memorized was

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A)  poetry.
B)  scripture verses.
C)  nonsense syllables.
D)  word pairs.E) C) and D)
F) B) and D)

Question 12

Lee has recently had a brain injury in which there was substantial damage to the hippocampus.During recovery,Lee finds that he is able to remember directions to the grocery store and the steps needed to shop (e.g.get a shopping basket,shop,pay for groceries and carry them out).However,Lee has extreme difficulty remembering the list of groceries that he established that he needed while he was at home.Furthermore,when he gets home,he finds that he is able to do simple tasks such as putting ice in his drink,but he becomes frustrated when he tries to remember all of the steps needed to use his espresso machine to make a drink.Given what we know about the hippocampus,explain why Lee exhibits the difficulties mentioned in the story.

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Lee has difficulty remembering lists bec...

Question 13

State-dependent memory is the tendency to remember something better if your body is in the same condition during recall as it was during the original learning.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

In the traditional information-processing model,one difference between short-term memory and long-term memory is that

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A)  you forget many short-term memories almost as soon as your attention is distracted;long-term memories can be available at any time.
B)  your short-term memories pertain mostly to meanings,while your long-term memories pertain mostly to sounds.
C)  you can store an almost unlimited amount of information in short-term memory but your long-term memory has a limited capacity.
D)  you need reminders or retrieval cues to find information stored in short-term memory;you need no such help for long-term memory.E) C) and D)
F) A) and D)

Question 15

Mr.Dannemiller has recently been diagnosed with Korsakoff's syndrome.His doctor decides to give him a neuropsychological evaluation to assess his memory.He is given two tasks,one is to remember a list of twenty words and one is to remember a rather lengthy and detailed story about a little girl going to camp for the first time.When he is tested for his memory for both tasks,his doctor notices some prominent deficits.Describe three specific types of memory deficits that the doctor is likely to note,given Mr.Dannemiller's condition.

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The doctor is likely to note the followi...

Question 16

After damage to his hippocampus,patient H.M.lost most of his ability to

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A)  recall memories of events that happened several years before the damage.
B)  store new long-term memories.
C)  make use of his procedural memories.
D)  store new short-term memories.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 17

One of the main symptoms of Korsakoff's syndrome is

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A)  amnesia.
B)  inability to read.
C)  impairment of voluntary movement.
D)  coarse coughing.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 18

Prolonged deficiency of vitamin B-1 leads to a condition that is characterized by severe memory problems.The name of that condition is

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A)  Kleine-Levin syndrome.
B)  Korsakoff's syndrome.
C)  Cotard's syndrome.
D)  Turner's syndrome.E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 19

Hermann Ebbinghaus forgot a new list that he learned faster than did most college students who participated in later experiments.Why did Ebbinghaus forget so rapidly?

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A)  repression
B)  encoding specificity
C)  retroactive interference
D)  proactive interferenceE) C) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 20

If asked to tell your social security number (without looking it up) ,you are being asked to perform a __________ memory test.

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A)  recognition
B)  cued-recall
C)  free recall
D)  savingsE) All of the above
F) A) and B)

Exam 7: Memory

Your friend asks,"What's the name of our chemistry lab instructor? I think it's Kathy or Karen something." If you answer correctly that it is Kathy Katzenjammer,which kind of memory are you displaying?

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Psychologists interested in studying repressed memories examined 16 children who were known to have witnessed the murder of one of their parents.What were the results of this study?

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The capacity of short-term memory for most normal adults is about seven items.

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If asked to tell your social security number (without looking it up) ,you are being asked to perform a __________ memory test.

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Prolonged deficiency of vitamin B-1 leads to a condition that is characterized by severe memory problems.The name of that condition is

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If asked to tell your social security number (without looking it up),you are being asked to perform a ____________________ memory test. free recall

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In the traditional information-processing model,one difference between short-term memory and long-term memory is that

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After students graduate from college,what happens to their memory of a foreign language that they studied in college?

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One of the main symptoms of Korsakoff's syndrome is

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One conclusion that emerges from all the research on brain damage and amnesia is that we clearly have different types of memory.

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Hermann Ebbinghaus forgot a new list that he learned faster than did most college students who participated in later experiments.Why did Ebbinghaus forget so rapidly?

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When Ebbinghaus pioneered the experimental study of memory,the information he memorized was

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Hindsight bias is the tendency to

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State-dependent memory is the tendency to remember something better if your body is in the same condition during recall as it was during the original learning.

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