Unit 5 Check for Understanding 2

According to the serial position effect, you will remember more: 

• items at the beginning and end of a list, than in the middle.
• nitems in the middle of a list, than at the beginning and end.
• vocabulary words if you process them visually.
• nvocabulary words if you process them acoustically.

Which of the following processes is likely to result in the best memory for words?

• visual encoding
• acoustic encoding
• rote memorization
• semantic encoding

Memories of emotional events are especially likely to be facilitated by activation of the: 

• amygdala.
• hypothalamus.
• sensory cortex.
• motor cortex.

Priming refers to:

• the sense that one has been in a particular situation before.

• better recall for experiences that are consistent with one’s current mood.

• attributing a memory to an erroneous source.

• the activation of associations in memory.

We have all had the experience of the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon.  We are asked to remember someone’s name.  We are certain that we know the name and feel as if we are just about to remember it, yet it remains elusive.  What type of forgetting might be at work here?

• encoding failure
• retroactive interference
• retrieval failure
• motivated forgetting

The reason most North Americans cannot accurately describe the head of a penny is due to:

• storage decay.
• retrieval failure.
• encoding failure.
• motivated forgetting.

Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin’s classic three-stage model of memory includes all of the following, EXCEPT:

• short-term memory
• long-term memory
• flashbulb memory
• sensory memory

During her evening Spanish language exam, Janica so easily remembers the French vocabulary she studied that morning that she finds it difficult to recall the Spanish vocabulary she rehearsed that afternoon. Her difficulty best illustrates:

• the spacing effect.
• proactive interference.
• retroactive interference.
• state-dependent memory.

Working memory is also known as

• long term memory
• short term memory
• sensory memory
• forgotten memory

During her psychology test, Kelsey could not remember the meaning of the term proactive interference. Surprisingly, however, she accurately remembered that the term appeared on the fourth line of a left-hand page in her textbook. Her memory of this incidental information is best explained in terms of

• automatic processing.
• priming.
• the serial position effect.
• the spacing effect.