Chapter 7 Quiz

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Chapter 7 Quiz

• Human Memory

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Dont forget to write your answers on a separate
piece of paper to grade when youre done!

• 1. The three stages of Atkinson-Shiffrin process
  of memory are
• a) iconic, echoic, encoding
• b) sensory, short term, long term
• c) shallow, medium, and deep processing
• d) semantic, episodic, procedural

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• 2. Which of the following examples best
  illustrates episodic memory?
• a) telling someone how to tie a shoe
• b) answering correctly that the Battle of
  Hastings was in 1066
• c) knowing that the word for black in
  French is noir
• d) remembering that a clown was at your
  fifth birthday party

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• 3. Doug wrote a grocery list of 10 items, but
  leaves it at home. The list included in order
  peas, corn, squash, onions, apples, pears,
  bananas, flour, milk, and eggs. If the law of
  primacy holds, which of the following is Doug
  most likely to remember when he gets to the
  store?
• a) peas, pears, eggs
• b) banana, flour, peas
• c) apples, pears, bananas
• d) peas, corn, onions

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• 4. Mnemonic devices
• a) can only be used to remember concrete
  words
• b) have existed since ancient times
• c) are generally ineffective and are
  unnecessary in modern times
• d) are the main element for improving
  everyday memory

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• 5. According to the levels of processing theory
  of memory
• a) we remember items that are repeated again
  and again
• b) maintenance rehearsal will encode items into
  our long-term memory
• c) deep processing involves elaborative
  rehearsal, ensuring encoding into long-term
  memory
• d) input, output, and storage are the three
  levels

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• 6. Which of the following brain structures plays
  a key role in transferring information from
  short-term memory to long-term memory?
• a) hypothalamus
• b) thalamus
• c) hippocampus
• d) frontal lobe

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• 7. Dan was drunk, so his girlfriend convinced
  him to get out of his car, and she drove him home
  in her car. He could not remember where his car
  was parked when he got up the next morning, but
  after drinking some liquor, Dan remembered where
  he left his car. This phenomenon best
  illustrates
• a) the misinformation effect
• b) mood-congruent memory
• c) the framing effect
• d) state-dependent memory

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• 8. Which of the following terms is synonymous
  with motivated forgetting?
• a) regression
• b) repression
• c) sublimation
• d) rationalization

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• 9. A retrieval cue is
• a) a brain structure stimulus used to locate
  a particular memory
• b) the same thing as an elaboration
  encoding variable
• c) a stimulus associated with a memory that
  is used to locate that memory
• d) always based on the mood you were in
  when a memory was first encoded

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• 10. Focusing awareness on a narrow range of
  stimuli or events involves
• a) encoding
• b) attention
• c) elaboration
• d) clustering

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• 11. If you were attempting to recall a memory,
  the memory process you would be using is
• a) encoding
• b) storage
• c) retrieval
• d) acquisition

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• 12. A memory code that emphasizes the meaning of
  the verbal input is called
• a) a structural code
• b) a phonemic code
• c) a semantic code
• d) an episodic code

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• 13. Which level of processing should result in
  the longest lasting memory codes?
• a) structural encoding
• b) mnemonic encoding
• c) semantic encoding
• d) phonemic encoding

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• 14. Pseudoforgetting is viewed as a function of
• a) interference effects
• b) lack of attention
• c) hippocampal damage
• d) insufficient retrieval cues

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• 15. Overlearning material will
• a) not improve retention
• b) improve retention
• c) improve retention for nonsense syllables,
  but not much else
• d) result in burnout

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Chapter 7 Answer Key

• 1. B
• 2. D
• 3. D
• 4. B
• 5. C
• 6. C
• 7. D
• 8. B
• 9. C
• 10. B

• 11. C
• 12. C
• 13. C
• 14. B
• 15. B

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Essay Question Possibilities!!

• One of the following essay questions will appear
  on your test, be familiar with all of them!!

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Essay Question 1

• Using the Atkinson and Shiffrin model of memory,
  describe the capacity, the durability, and the
  typical form of information storage in each of
  the three human memory systems, and identify the
  processes that transfer information from one
  system to another.

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Essay Question 2

• Compare the Atkinson and Shiffrin model of
  short-term memory with Baddelys more complex
  model of short-term memory.

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Essay Question 3

• Compare and evaluate decay theory and
  interference theory as explanations of forgetting.

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Essay Question 4

• Distinguish between implicit and explicit memory,
  declarative and procedural memory, and semantic
  and episodic memory, and explain how these are
  interrelated.

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Essay Question 5

• Outline some strategies that can be used to
  improve everyday memory.

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Good Luck!

• Make sure to double check all of your answers and
  study them for the upcoming exam. Remember, AT
  LEAST FIVE of the questions from this quiz will
  make some sort of appearance on the chapter test
  along with one of the essay questions.
• Take advantage of this study guide and good luck
  on your test!