 | | 1. | | ___ memory specifically stores general knowledge, including the meanings of words and concepts. | | | |   | A. | | Declarative |   | B. | | Semantic | | C. | | Episodic | | D. | | Flashbulb |
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| | 2. | | The ___ is the distortion of a memory by suggestion or misinformation. | | | | |  | A. | | misinformation effect |  | B. | | suggestibility effect | | C. | | misremembering effect | | D. | | misattribution effect |
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| | 3. | | If Jennifer is trying to remember a book that she read last year but cannot because she is reading another book right now and keeps remembering details from this new one, this is called ___. | | | | A. | | the forgetting curve | | B. | | proactive interference | | C. | | blocking | | D. | | retroactive interference |
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| | 4. | | The model of memory as having three stages was originally developed by | | | | | | A. | | Sperling | | B. | | Piaget | | C. | | Craik and Tulving | | D. | | Atkinson and Shiffrin |
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| | 5. | | A person's working memory will have ___ capacity for numbers as it will for words. | | | | | | A. | | unequal | | B. | | a much greater | | C. | | much less | | D. | | roughly equal |
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| | 6. | | After not speaking with an old friend for over a decade, you now experienced a flood of memories that you probably wouldn't have experienced had you not spoken with this friend. This example illustrates ___. | | | | A. | | encoding specificity | | B. | | the TOT phenomenon | | C. | | transience | | D. | | proactive interference |
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| | 7. | | Procedural memory is to declarative memory as | | | | A. | | implicit is to explicit | | B. | | knowing who is to knowing what | | C. | | what we know is to what we do | | D. | | explicit is to implicit |
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| | 8. | | The ___ theory argues that "deeper" processing allows for more meaningful and memorable information memories. | | | | A. | | TOT | | B. | | sketchpad | | C. | | levels-of-processing | | D. | | long-term potentation |
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| | 9. | | If you're trying to make a memory more meaningful, then you're likely engaging in ___. | | | | | A. | | retrieval | | B. | | encoding | | C. | | elaboration | | D. | | storage |
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| | 10. | | Iconic memory is to echoic memory as | | | | A. | | sensation is to perception. | | B. | | sensory is to short-term. | | C. | | hearing is to vision. | | D. | | vision is to hearing. |
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| | 11. | | Cognitive psychologists argue that memory is a(n) ___ system that organizes information into meaningful patterns. | | | | A. | | perception | | B. | | interpretive | | C. | | recording | | D. | | sensory |
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| | 12. | | Concepts can represent ___. | | | | A. | | abstractions | | B. | | mental representations | | C. | | procedures | | D. | | all of the above |
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| | 13. | | Two brain structures that are particularly important in memory are the ___ and the ___. | | | | | | A. | | hippocampus; hypothalamus | | B. | | amygdala; hippocampus | | C. | | thalamus; hypothalamus | | D. | | hippocampus; medulla |
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| | 14. | | Carey is trying to remember her friend's email address. To do this she repeats it over and over to herself. This is an example of ___. | | | | A. | | repetitive rehearsal | | B. | | elaborative rehearsal | | C. | | chunking | | D. | | maintenance rehearsal |
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| | 15. | | The duration of sensory memories is about ___ | | | | A. | | .25 seconds | | B. | | 1 second | | C. | | unlimited | | D. | | 20-30 seconds |
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| | 16. | | Cognition includes the mental process of ___. | | | | A. | | learning | | B. | | knowing | | C. | | all of the above | | D. | | remembering |
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| | 17. | | Memory is said to be a(n) ___ act. | | | | A. | | transient | | B. | | hopeless | | C. | | inaccurate | | D. | | reconstructive |
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| | 18. | | ___ are representations drawn from direct experience. | | | | A. | | Natural concepts | | B. | | Concept hierarchies | | C. | | Artificial concepts | | D. | | Abstractions |
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| | 19. | | When a company creates a phone number that corresponds with the respective letters to form a word, they allow an individual to engage in ___. | | | | A. | | elaborative rehearsal | | B. | | maintenance rehearsal | | C. | | priming | | D. | | chunking |
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| | 20. | | Neuroscience shows that our frontal lobes are especially important when we do all EXCEPT which of the following? | | | | A. | | store emotional memories | | B. | | make decisions | | C. | | coordinate thoughts | | D. | | solve problems |
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| | 21. | | Consolidation involves transforming ___ memories into more permanent memories in the ___. | | | | | | A. | | hippocampal; medulla | | B. | | hippocampal; cortex | | C. | | amygdalar; cerebellum | | D. | | amygdalar; cortex |
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| | 22. | | Suppose Henry's wife tells him to purchase the following items from the grocery store in this order: eggs, cheese, milk, crackers and kiwi. Assuming that Henry doesn't have a written list, he'll be the MOST likely to forget the ___. | | | | A. | | cheese | | B. | | milk | | C. | | crackers | | D. | | kiwi |
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| | 23. | | The ___ is the physical trace of memory in the brain. | | | | A. | | anagram | | B. | | engram | | C. | | ingram | | D. | | sonogram |
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| | 24. | | ___ is based on the idea that long-term memories gradually fade in strength over time. | | | | | | A. | | Forgetting | | B. | | Absent-mindedness | | C. | | Transience | | D. | | Blocking |
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| | 25. | | Implicit memory is to explicit memory as | | | | A. | | unconscious is to conscious. | | B. | | recall is to recognition. | | C. | | dlearned is to association. | | D. | | prime is to chunk. |
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