Memory Quiz

1. The happier Judie is, the more readily she recalls experiences with former teachers who were warm and generous. This best illustrates that emotional states can be:

Retrieval cues

Short-term memory

Long-term memory

Recognition

2. Many people can easily recall exactly what they were doing when they heard the news of the 9/11 terrorist tragedy. This best illustrates ________ memory.

Echoic

Flashbulb

Implicit

Iconic

3. At a block party, Cyndi is introduced to eight new neighbors. Moments later, she can only remember the names of the first three and last two neighbors. Her experience illustrates:

Source amnesia

The next-in-line effect

Implicit memory

The serial position effect

4. Although Jordan could not recall the exact words of a poem he had recently heard, he clearly remembered the meaning of the poem. This best illustrates the importance of:

Semantic encoding

Mood-congruent memory

The serial position effect

The method of loci

5. Mrs. McBride can’t consciously recall how frequently she criticizes her children because it would be too anxiety-arousing to do so. Sigmund Freud would have suggested that her poor memory illustrates:

Source amnesia

Proactive interference

Automatic procesisng

Repression

6. After Teresa was verbally threatened by someone in a passing car, she was questioned as to whether she recognized the man who was driving the car. Several hours later, Teresa mistakenly recalled that the driver was a male rather than a female. Teresa’s experience best illustrates:
a. implicit memory.
b. proactive interference.
c. the misinformation effect.
d. the serial position effect.

Implicit memory

Proactive interference

The misinformation effect

The serial position effect

7. It is easier to remember “what sobriety conceals, alcohol reveals” than to recall “what sobriety conceals, alcohol unmasks.” This best illustrates the value of:

The serial position effect

Acoustic encoding

The spacing effect

Implicit memory

8. Memories of emotional events are especially likely to be facilitated by activation of the:

Amygdala

Hypothalamus

Sensory cortex

Motor cortex

9. A measure of your memory in which you need to pick the correctly learned answer from a displayed list of options is known as a measure of:

Recall

Recognition

Reconstruction

Relearning

10. The method of loci relies heavily on the use of:

Visual encoding.

Implicit memory.

The spacing effect.

Mood-congruent memory.

11. The extensive rehearsal necessary to encode nonsense syllables best illustrates:

The spacing effect.

Implicit memory.

The serial position effect

Effortful processing

12. During her evening Spanish language exam, Janica so easily remembers the French vocabulary she studied that morning that she finds it difficult to recall the Spanish vocabulary she rehearsed that afternoon. Her difficulty best illustrates:

The spacing effect

Proactive interference

Cource amnesia

Retroactive interference

13. Mr. Nydam suffers amnesia and is unable to remember playing golf on a particular course. Yet the more he plays the course, the more his game improves. His experience illustrates the need to distinguish between:

Shotr-term and long-term memory

Proactive and retroactive interference

Explicit and implicit memory

Recognition and recall

14. After suffering a brain injury in a motorcycle accident, Adam cannot form new memories. He can, however, remember his life experiences before the accident. Adam’s memory difficulty most clearly illustrates:

Repression

Retroactive interference

Encoding failure

Source amnesia

15. Which of the following is believed to be the synaptic basis for learning and memory?

Priming

Semantic encoding

Proactive interference

Long-term potentiation

16. Recalling something that you had once merely imagined happening as something you had directly experienced best illustrates:

The self-reference effect

Mood-congruent memory.

Proactive interference

Source amnesia.

17. An understanding of the spacing effect provides insight into effective strategies for:

Rehersal

Chunking.

Retrieval.

Automatic processing.

18. Employing the single word “HOMES” to remember the names of North America’s five Great Lakes best illustrates the use of:

The method of loci

The serial position effect

A mnemonic device

Implicit memory

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19. Ebbinghaus observed that it is much easier to learn meaningful material than to learn nonsense material. This best illustrates the advantage of:

The “peg-word” system.

The spacing effect.

Semantic encoding.

Implicit memory.

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20. When you hear familiar words in your native language, it is virtually impossible not to register the meanings of the words. This best illustrates the importance of:

Flashbulb memory

Automatic processing.

Iconic memory.

The spacing effect.