Exam 10-1

Name ____________________________________________
MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the questions.
1. __________________ memory refers to a vivid, detailed recollection of an emotional event.
A. Semantic

B. Declarative

C. Flashbulb

D. Episodic

2. The inability to distinguish an actual memory of an event from information you learned about the event elsewhere
is ________________.
A. source confusion

B. confabulation

C. false memory

D. repression

3. Which of the following tests for recall?

A. matching questions
C. multiple-choice

B. essay questions
D. true-false questions

4. In the three-box model of memory, ___________ holds information temporarily for up to about 30 seconds.
A. long-term memory
C. the sensory register

B. short-term memory
D. working memory

5. The inability to distinguish what you originally experienced from what you heard or were told about an event later
is called:
A. priming.

B. source amnesia.

C. semantic memory.

D. explicit memory.

6. ____________ refers to the capacity to retain and retrieve information.

A. Memory

B. Recall

C. Recognition

D. Priming

7. Unconscious retention in memory, as evidenced by the effect of a previous experience or previously encountered
information on current thoughts and actions is called:
A. explicit memory
C. procedural memory

B. implicit memory
D. declarative memory

8. The ____________ model represents the contents of memory as connections among a huge number of interacting
processing units.
A. Sequential

B. three-box

C. parallel

D. PDP

9. Which of the following does NOT facilitate confabulation?

A.
B.
C.
D.

You have thought about the imagined event many times

The event is difficult to imagine
The image of the event contains a lot of details
You focus on your emotional reactions to the event rather than on what actually happened

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10. Conscious, intentional recollection of an event or of an item of information is called:
A. implicit memory
C. autobiographical memory

B. procedural memory
D. explicit memory

11. Under most circumstances, when you are intentionally trying to remember an item of information, _______ is an
easier task than _______________.
A. recall; recognition
C. the savings method; priming

B. priming; the savings method

D. recognition; recall

12. Information in sensory memory is retained for about:

A. 30 minutes
C. 5-10 minutes

B. 30 seconds
D. 2-3 seconds or less

13. Visual images remain in sensory memory for a maximum of :

A. two seconds

B. one minute

C. one-half second

D. thirty seconds

14. Information in short-term memory is retained for about ______________ if it is not rehearsed.
A. 5-20 minutes
C. 2-3 seconds or less

B. 30 seconds
D. 30 minutes

15. ___________ acts as a holding bin, retaining information in a highly accurate form until we can select items for
attention.
A. Short-term memory
C. The sensory register

B. Long-term memory
D. Working memory

16. Auditory images remain in sensory memory for about

A. one-half second

B. two seconds

C. one minute

D. thirty seconds

17. Which component of memory has been referred to as a leaky bucket?

A. working memory
C. long-term memory

B. short-term memory
D. the sensory register

18. Memories of personally experienced events and the contexts in which they occurred are called:
A. procedural memories
C. short-term memories

B. episodic memories
D. semantic memories

19. Memories for the performance of actions or skills are called:

A. semantic memories
C. episodic memories

B. declarative memories
D. procedural memories

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20. When researchers investigated organization in long-term memory, they found that:
A.
B.
C.
D.

semantic categories are effective in organizing works and concepts

organization is based on human physiology and so culture has few effects on retrieval
verbal information is indexed semantically, and not by sound or form
it must be linked to sound, since users of sign-language dont have tip-of-the-tongue states

21. Which of the following is considered to be an implicit memory?

A. episodic memory
C. procedural memory

B. semantic memory
D. declarative memory

22. _______________ is a memory system that includes short-term memory and information retrieved from longterm memory.
A. Working memory
C. Declarative memory

B. Procedural memory
D. Semantic memory

23. _____________ could be called knowing how to do something memories.

A. Semantic memories
C. Episodic memories

B. Declarative memories
D. Procedural memories

24. In the 1950s, George Miller estimated the capacity of short-term memory to be the:
A. magical number 11, plus or minus 1.
C. magical number 7, plus or minus 2.

B. magical number 9, plus or minus 3.

D. magical number 5, plus or minus 4.

25. When you recall the days of the week, you are relying on ______________ memory.
A. episodic

B. semantic

C. procedural

D. sensory

26. When you rollerblade, you are relying on ________________ memory.

A. episodic

B. procedural

C. declarative

D. semantic

27. According to the serial-position effect, if you are shown a list of items and then asked to immediately recall them:
A.
B.
C.
D.

items from the beginning and the end of the list are remembered best.
retention of any particular item is based on emotional valence, not its position in the list.
items from the middle and the end of the list are remembered best.
items from the beginning and the middle of the list are remembered best.

MATCHING. Choose the best item in column 2 that best matches each item in column 1.
28.
29.
30.
31.
32.
33.
34.
35.

The inability to distinguish an actual memory

Of an event from information you learned about
The event elsewhere
Confusion of an event that happened to
Someone else with one that happened to
You, or a belief that you remember
Something when it never actually happened.

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36. Conscious, intentional recollection of an event
37. Or of an item of information.
38.
39. Unconscious retention in memory, as evidenced
by the effect of a previous experience or
previously encountered information on current
thoughts or actions.
40.
41. A method for measuring implicit memory in
which a person reads or listens to information
and is later tested to see whether the information

affects performance on the same or another type

of task.
42.
A. Source misattribution
43.
B. Priming
44.
C. Explicit memory
45.
D. Confabulation
46.
E. Implicit memory

47.