Chapter 5 Cognitive Psych

A basic assumption underlying short-term memory is that it is...

• Resistant to decay

• Limited in capacity

• Long lasting

• Not under conscious control

• Unlimited in capacity

There are three stages to the information processing model for memory. You should determine which of the following options are part of the model and which order they appear by placing the three stages beside the numbers 1, 2, and 3. Terms which are not part of the model should be placed in the spaces with no number beside them.

• Encoding

• Storage

• Retrieval

• Sensation

• Rehearsal

During English class, Caleb is worried about an unfinished history project he needs to turn in later in the day. While the English teacher and other students discuss a short story the class just read, Caleb’s attention is focused on how to finish the history project. The next day he is unable to recall the short story details presented in English class. The recall problem is most likely due to...

• Retrieval failure

• Proactive interference

• Encoding failure

• Retroactive interference

• Source amnesia

To remember that Mr. Schnicker is a principal at Waynesville School is a _______ memory; to remember the first time you were in Mr. Schnicker’s office (being told off for doing donuts in the parking lot) is a ______ memory.

• short-term; long-term

• episodic; semantic

• semantic; iconic

• procedural; episodic

• semantic; episodic

In elementary school, Lisa learned to speak some Japanese in addition to English. As a sophomore in high school, Lisa took a class in Chinese. She found that some of the new vocabulary was difficult to learn because her earlier Japanese vocabulary was competing with the new Chinese words. This situation best illustrates...

• Retroactive interference

• Proactive interference

• Cue-dependent forgetting

• Reconstruction

• Misattribution

After having a stroke resulting from a blockage of blood to the medial temporal lobe, Gerald could not remember new information, such as the books he had just read, new songs he had just heard, or the faces of new people he had just met. Gerald was experiencing...

• Dissociative fugue

• Retrograde amnesia

• Anterograde amnesia

• Dissociative amnesia

• Conversion disorder

The chart above illustrates which of the following psychological concepts?

• Serial position effect

• Misinformation effect

• Short-term memory decay

• Next-in-line effect

• Spacing effect

In an experiment, either a sad video or a happy video was shown to participants to influence their moods. The participants were then asked to memorize a list of words. Later, the participants were again shown either the same video they had seen before memorizing the words or they were shown the other video, and they were then asked to recall the words they had memorized previously. The results of the experiment, summarized in the chart above, best illustrate which psychological concept?

• Observational learning

• State-dependent memory

• Episodic memory

• Encoding failure

• Latent learning

Hillary glances at a graph and then turns her head away less than a second later. When she tries to immediately remember what she saw, which of the following types of memory does Hillary use?

• Declarative

• Echoic

• Implicit

• Iconic

• Procedural

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

• Retrograde amnesia

• Cue-dependent forgetting

• Retrograde interference

• Broca's aphasia

• Selective amnesia