Final Exam Practice, Chapters 7 & 8

With regard to memory, the process of retaining neurally coded information over time is known as _____.

• maintenance

• capturing

• sensory retention

• storage

The three steps in memory processing are _____.

• encoding, storage, retrieval

• translations, maintenance, transmittal

• dictation, capturing, regurgitation

• encrypting, sensory retention, neural processing

Which of the following are ways that people can improve their elaborative rehearsal skills?

• Expand on the information

• Question the new information

• Find meaning in the information

• All of these

This explains why you can recall what someone said several seconds ago, even if you were absorbed in another task when they first said it.

• Instant recall

• Phonosonic memory

• Auditory recall

• Echoic memory

Miguel has an average memory capacity. Which of the following lists is he the MOST likely to forget?

• IBM, CBS, FBI, CIA, NBC, ABC, ESP

• Karen, Kathy, Katie, Keith, Kevin, Kim,

• 123, 456, 789, 987, 654, 321

• ZKQ, LMP, TSC, XRJ

This memory stage stores an almost limitless amount of information for a nearly permanent duration of time.

• LTM

• STM

• Central executive

• Working memory

Nanette highlights the margin-definition of terms in her psychology textbook; Nathan thinks about how each term applies to his own life or to other concepts in the chapter. Nathan is more likely to recall and use the terms better on an essay exam because _____.

• he used dual-coding and Nanette did not

• Nanette obviously isn't interested in psychology

• he used maintenance rehearsal and Nanette did not

• he processed the terms at a deeper level than did Nanette

An essay test requires the use of _____ because you must use very general retrieval cues to search the contents of your LTM.

• the encoding specificity principle

• recall

• recognition

• all of these options

The serial position effect suggests that people will remember _____ items better than _____ items on a list.

• middle and end; beginning

• beginning and end; middle

• beginning; middle or end

• end; middle or beginning

The tendency to remember previous sad events when feeling sad in the present is an example of _____ memory.

• pessimistic

• mood congruent

• context dependent

• emotion-focused