Psychology MCQs ~Memory~

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Psychology MCQs Memory
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• 1.
• To prevent information in short-term store from
  decaying, one can use ________ .
• a. rehearsal
• b. elaboration
• c. explication
• d. memory
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• 2.
• Information that is in short-term store can be
  processed or
• transformed before being stored in long-term
  store. This processing is
• called ________ .
• a. elaboration
• b. memory

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• 3.
• Your memories concerning what you talked about at
  dinner last night is part of your ________
  memory.
• a. implicit
• b. explicit
• c. sensory
• d. short-term
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• 4.
• Your memories concerning how to hit a backhand
  shot in tennis is part of your ________ memory.
• a. explicit
• b. implicit
• c. short-term
• d. sensory

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• 5.
• Eidetic imagery
• a. is impaired by the presence of auditory cues.
  
• b. begins to fade immediately after the stimulus
  is removed.
• c. provides a permanent and accurate record of
  images the individual has paid attention to.
• d. is found more often in children than adults.
  
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• 6.
• Why might rehearsal prevent the loss of an item
  from working memory?
• a. Any or all of these choices may be involved.
  
• b. It prevents the memory from decaying.
• c. It focuses attention on the item rather than
  on new items.
• d. It protects the item from displacement.

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• 7.
• If you repeat a phone number to keep it in
  working memory, you are keeping it in a high
  state of activation. If a new phone number is
  presented what will happen to the original phone
  number?
• a. It will be remembered along with the new
  number.
• b. Both numbers will be lost.
• c. It may fall below the level of activation
  necessary for retrieval.
• d. The numbers will be combined into one long
  string of numbers.
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• 8.
• Which statement is true about retrieval of items
  from working memory?
• a. It depends upon the number of items in
  consciousness.
• b. It takes longer if the material is presented
  in a chunked form.
• c. It doesn't require a search process.
• d. It requires no time since access is
  immediate.

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• 9.
• When we engage in problem solving, information
  from ________ memory is transferred to ________
  for conscious processing.
• a. working long-term
• b. long-term working
• c. semantic episodic
• d. episodic semantic
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• 10.
• While counting a patient's pulse, Katy tried to
  remember that patient's blood pressure but could
  not. Why?
• a. Two activities were competing for the same
  space in working memory.
• b. Blood pressure requires a semantic code
  pulse requires an acoustic code.
• c. Long-term memory held the blood pressure data
  but Katy was using working memory to count.
• d. Two activities were competing for the same
  space in long-term memory.

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• 11.
• If you received damage to your hippocampus in an
  accident, you would show deficits in your
  ________ memory but not your ________ memory.
• a. long-term working
• b. sensory working
• c. working sensory
• d. working sensory
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• 12.
• Research evidence shows that the ________ is
  essential for short-term memory, while the
  ________ is essential for long-term memory.
• a. hippocampus hypothalamus
• b. frontal lobes parietal lobes
• c. preforntal lobes hippocampus
• d. temporal lobes parietal lobes

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• 13.
• The dominant means of long-term storage of verbal
  material is
• a. All of these choices are true.
• b. acoustic.
• c. visual.
• d. meaning.
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• 14.
• The word "dawn" appears in a list of words you
  try to memorize. Thirty minutes later, you are
  asked to recall the list, but your recall is
  wrong. Which word would you be most likely to
  recall instead of "dawn"?
• a. sun
• b. morning
• c. fawn
• d. down

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• 15.
• You are in a grocery store in your home town and
  encounter a woman who you recognize as having
  been a substitute teacher in your sophomore
  history class. You know her name is something
  like Ms. Lawson, or Larson, or some other similar
  name which begins with the letter L. You are
  experiencing the
• a. context-dependent effect.
• b. tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon.
• c. state-dependent effect.
• d. flashbulb memory effect.
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• 16.
• Poor long-term memory is typically a problem with
  ________ rather than ________ .
• a. retrieval storage
• b. memory span context-dependent effect
• c. serial position tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
  
• d. elaboration chunking

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• 17.
• Information stored in long-term memory
• a. is retained longer when auditory codes are
  used.
• b. may be forgotten if items are not properly
  chunked.
• c. may be permanently erased by repression.
• d. may be forgotten due to loss of access to the
  information.
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• 18.
• Interference can be accounted for by the
  _________ model(s) of memory.
• a. connectionist
• b. search process
• c. All of these choices are true.
• d. spreading activation

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• 19.
• Long-term stress may destroy cells in the
  hippocampus. What effect would this have on one's
  memory?
• a. No major effects on memory would be noted.
• b. Consolidation of memories into long-term
  memory might be noted.
• c. There would be an improvement of working
  memory functioning.
• d. Working memory would be disrupted.
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• 20.
• Internal and external contexts serve as powerful
  cues for recall. Internal cues are often
  responsible for
• a. semantic coding.
• b. flashbulb memory.
• c. implicit memory.
• d. state-dependent learning.

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• 21.
• If you can show an improvement in a motor or
  cognitive ask without conscious recollection of
  the experiences that led to the improvement, you
  are using your ________ memory system.
• a. covert
• b. implicit
• c. explicit
• d. subjective
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• 22.
• A woman with anterograde amnesia would be least
  likely to recall
• a. how to ride a bicycle.
• b. the name of the new car she just saw
  advertised in a magazine.
• c. her name.
• d. the name of her childhood hometown.

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• 23.
• Recent research has shown that even mild head
  trauma (that which doesn't result in a loss of
  consciousness) can result in a memory loss for
  events that occurred immediately prior to the
  trauma. This is an example of
• a. retrograde amnesia.
• b. anterograde amnesia.
• c. repression.
• d. IQ deficits associated with the head injury.
  
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• 24.
• Which of the following seems to be the best
  explanation of childhood amnesia?
• a. Children encode and organize memories
  differently from adults.
• b. Sexual and aggressive feelings of the child
  are repressed later, when we are socialized.
• c. Memories are lost because recent memories
  displace them.
• d. Just like other memories, they fade with
  time.

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• 25.
• One explanation for the occurrence of childhood
  amnesia is that there is continued neural
  development of the ________ through the first few
  years of life.
• a. cortex
• b. brain systems that mediate repression
• c. hypothalamus
• d. hippocampus

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