Chapter 9 Quiz

Which of the following has limited storage capacity?

• Short Term Memory

• Long Term Memory

• Sensory Memory

If you watch a sequel to movie, and have trouble remembering if a character was in the first movie, you are experiencing...

• Repressive Memories

• Motivated forgetting

• Interference

• Memory Decay

According to _________ theory, you not consciously aware of how external stimuli have shaped your behavioral responses.  

• Constructive memory
• repressive memory
• episodic memory
• priming

To gain accurate eyewitness testimony from children, interviewers must

• be sensitive to repressed memories.   
• provide details to the child before the interview
• use neutral words that children can understand.
• employ leading questions to prompt a response

The process of getting information into memory is called_______

• priming
• chunking
• encoding
• storing

Sherry easily remembers the telephone reservation number for Holiday Inns by using the mnemonic 1-800-HOLIDAY. She is using a memory aid known as

• the peg-word system.
• implicit memory.
• the serial position effect
• chunking

The human capacity for storing long-term memories is

• roughly equal to seven units of information
• enhanced through hypnosis
• essentially unlimited
• typically much greater in young children than in adults

Exceptionally clear memories of emotionally significant events are called

• repressed memories.
• sensory memories
• mood-congruent memories
• flashbulb memories

Repeating someone's name several times shortly after being introduced to that person is an effective strategy for

• chunking
• priming
• automatic processing
• rehearsal

is the ability to retain information over time

• memory

• chunking

• dancing

• reherarsing