Memory Test Review

When rehearsal of incoming information is prevented, which of the following will most likely occur?

• The information will remain indefinitely in short-term memory

• There will be no transfer of the information to long-term memory

• The sensory register will stop processing the information

• Retrieval of the information from long-term memory will be easier

A teenager would most probably draw on which of the following to recall her tenth birthday party?

• Episodic memory

• Semantic memory

• Echoic memory

• Eidetic imagery

Elena is presented with a list of 20 numbers. When asked to recall this list, she remembers more numbers from the beginning than from the end of the list. This phenomenon demonstrates which of the following types of effects?

• Mnemonic

• Primacy

• Recency

• Secondary

According to the information-processing view of memory, the first stage in memory processing involves

• Retrieval

• Rehearsal

• Encoding

• Transfer

John suffered a head injury in an accident five years ago. He now has clear memories of events that occurred before the accident, but he has great difficulty remembering any of the experiences he has had since the accident. John’s symptoms describe

• Anterograde amnesia

• Broca’s aphasia

• Cue-dependent forgetting

• Retroactive interference

When a list of words is learned in order, the words most likely to be forgotten are those that are

• At the end of the list

• In the middle of the list

• Hardest to pronounce

• Easiest to spell

An individual’s ability to remember the day he or she first swam the length of a swimming pool is most clearly an example of which of the following kinds of memories?

• Flashbulb

• Procedural

• Priming

• Episodic

A person assembling a tool one week after reading the instructions can remember the first and last steps of the procedure but not the middle ones. This best illustrates which of the following?

• Encoding failure

• Social facilitation

• Retrograde amnesia

• The serial position effect

Memory for automatic activities, such as bike riding and handwriting, is known as

• declarative

• semantic

• procedural

• Repressed

The brain scans of people with amnesia are most likely to show damage to the

• hippocampus

• hypothalamus

• medulla

• reticular formation