Eidetic Memory Test

1. We remember words that lend themselves to mental images better than we remember abstract low imagery words. This best illustrates the value of:

Iconic memory

Visual encoding

Flashbulb memory

Long term potentiation

2. Encoding that occurs with no effort or a minimal level of conscious attention in known as:

Implicit memory

Long term potentiation

Automatic processing

State dependent memory

Chuncking

3. An eyewitness to a grocery store robbery is asked to identify the suspects in a police lineup. Which test of memory is being utilized?

Recall

Relearning

Recognition

Rehearsal

Reconstruction

4. The cerebellum plays a critical role in _________ memory.

Echoic

Implicit

Iconic

Explicit

5. The discovery that words heard underwater are later better recalled underwater than on land best illustrates the value of:

The method of loci

State dependent memory

The spacing effect

Retrieval cues

Implicit memory

6. When Loftus and Plamer asked observers of a filmed car accident how fast the vehicles were going when they "smashed" into each other, The observers developed memories of the accident that:

Omitted some of the most painful aspects of the event.

Were more accurate than the memories of subjects who had not been immediately questioned about what they saw.

Were influenced by whether or not Loftus and Plamer identified them selves as police officers

Portrayed the event as more serious than it had actually been.

7. After studying biology all afternoon, Alonso is having difficulty remembering details of the chemistry lecture he heard that morning. Alonso's difficulty best illustrates:

Encoding failure

Retroactive interference

The spacing effect

Proactive inerference

Source amnesia

8. Which pioneering researcher made extensive use of nonsense syllables in the study of human memeory?

Pavlov

James

Loftus

Freud

Ebbinhaus

9. The often unconscious activation of particular associations in memory is called:

Chunking

Automatic processing

Repression

Priming

State dependent memory

10. By presenting research participants with three rowns of three letters each for only a fraction of a second, Sperling demonstrated that people have _______ memory.

Echoic

Flashbulb

State dependent

Iconic

Implicit