General Psychology_ Chapter 7

If you learned a list of words underwater, where could you best recall those words?

• Underwater

• On dry land

• On a boat

• In a library

Approximately how long does a specific sensory memory last?

• No more than a few seconds

• Close to a minute

• With rehearsal, several minutes

• With encoding, nearly forever

What purpose do the parentheses and hyphens serve in a telephone number?

• They promote chunking.

• They set serial position.

• They provide iconic coding.

• They identify schemas.

Which of the following can be considered the most personal?

• Episodic memory

• Semantic memory

• Explicit memory

• Declarative memory

Which of the following would likely NOT be forgotten by a person who has amnesia?

• The actions for buttoning a sweater

• The name of a closed down clothing store

• Driving directions to a shopping mall

• A relative's shirt and pant sizes

Melinda has been diagnosed with anterograde amnesia. Which of the following will Melinda likely be unable to remember?

• The movie she sees next week with her husband

• The name of the restaurant she ate at last month

• The make and model of the first car she owned

• The content of her college art history course

Based on the key principles of each perspective, under which of the following is a memory most likely to be permanently forgotten?

• Decay theory

• Retroactive interference

• Proactive interference

• Cue-dependent forgetting

For which of the following will a person likely rely on his or her explicit memory?

• Checking a file box to find an old recipe

• Turning on the stove and frying an egg

• Washing and drying a dirty frying pan

• Putting bread in the toaster and starting it

In the working-memory model, which of the following serves as the direct bridge between new information and long-term memory?

• Episodic buffer

• Visuospatial sketchpad

• Central executive

• Phonological loop

Which one of the following memory processes involves being able to pull information out of memory on test day?

• Encoding

• Retrieval

• Storage

• Conscience