Eidetic Memory Test

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    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
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  • 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

    Correct Answer
    A. Automatic processing
  • 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

    Correct Answer
    A. Recognition
  • 4. 

    The cerebellum plays a critical role in _________ memory.

    • Echoic

    • Implicit

    • Iconic

    • Explicit

    Correct Answer
    A. Implicit
  • 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

    Correct Answer
    A. Retrieval cues
  • 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.

    Correct Answer
    A. 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

    Correct Answer
    A. Retroactive interference
  • 8. 

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

    • Pavlov

    • James

    • Loftus

    • Freud

    • Ebbinhaus

    Correct Answer
    A. Ebbinhaus
  • 9. 

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

    • Chunking

    • Automatic processing

    • Repression

    • Priming

    • State dependent memory

    Correct Answer
    A. Priming
  • 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

    Correct Answer
    A. Iconic
  • 11. 

    Long Term potentiation refers to:

    • The impact of overlearning on retention

    • An automatic tendency to recall emotionally significant

    • An increased neural readiness for impulse transmission

    • The process of learning something without any conscious memory fo having learned it

    • The relatively premanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system

    Correct Answer
    A. An increased neural readiness for impulse transmission
  • 12. 

    The next in line effect best illustrates

    • Encoding failure

    • Long term potentiation

    • Automatic processing

    • Retroactive inerference

    • Source amnesia

    Correct Answer
    A. Encoding failure

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