Chapter 7 Review Quiz
Review of Chapter 7.
- 1.Joe is thinking about what he is doing this weekend. He is using
- A.
Semantic memory
- B.
Declarative memory
- C.
Prospective memory
- D.
Phonemic memory
- E.
Episodic memory
- 2.Suppose you are told that someone has an accident and now has no idea who she or her family are. This person has significant
- A.
Proactive interference
- B.
Retroactive interference
- C.
Antroactive amnesia
- D.
Antrograde amnesia
- E.
Retrograde amnesia
- 3.When you come up with an idea that you believe to be your own but really was something you heard from somewhere else, you have
- A.
Antrograde amnesia
- B.
Cryptomnesia
- C.
Reality monitoring error
- D.
Encoding specificity error
- E.
Semantic error
- 4.According to Freud, we do not remember our own birth because
- A.
Our birth was simply a long time ago that decay simply occured.
- B.
Our senses are not fully developed, thus we cannot put sensory into the STM and ultimately into the LTM.
- C.
So much sesory input was present that a lot of interference made it impossible to encode effectively.
- D.
Our birth was a very traumatic experience, so we repressed it out of our conscious awareness.
- E.
Our amygdala is underdeveloped at birth.
- 5.According to Miller, how many pieces of information can we hold in the STM?
- A.
20-30 items
- B.
13-17 items
- C.
4 to 6 items
- D.
2-5 items
- E.
5 to 9 items
- 6.Most people in their fifties can remember where they were when John F. Kennedy was assassinated. This type of memory is known as a _______________ memory.
- A.
Flashbulb
- B.
Retrospective
- C.
Prospective
- D.
Semantic
- E.
Historic
- 7.At the beginning of the school year, you keep calling your social studies teacher by the name of your social studies teacher from last year. You are experiencing
- A.
Antrograde amnesia
- B.
Retrograde amnesia
- C.
Retroactive interference
- D.
Proactive interference
- E.
None of the above
- 8.What happened to Henry Molaison (H.M.) that caused his memory impairment?
- A.
His prefrontal cortex was damaged as a result of an infection.
- B.
His hippocamous was removed.
- C.
It is not exactly known.
- D.
His amydgale his removed.
- E.
None of the above
- 9.When given a list of words, people tend to remember the first and last few words in a recall task. This is known as the
- A.
The Ebbinghaus effect
- B.
Serial position effect
- C.
The haggedorn effect
- D.
The inverted-U
- E.
None of the above
- 10.The _________________ is most responsible for implicit memories, such as procedural and classically conditioned memories.
- A.
Limbic system
- B.
Thalumus
- C.
Hippocampus
- D.
Amygdala
- E.
Cerebellum
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