Psychology Chapter 10

Your memory of where you were and what you were doing when you heard about the terrorist attacks in Paris represents what type of memory?

• Snapshot

• One-shot

• Sensory

• Implicit

• Flashbulb

A typical multiple-choice question (such as this one) can be considered a(n) ____ test of ______ memory.

• Implicit; recall

• Explicit; recall

• Implicit; relearning

• Explicit; recognitionImplicit; recognition

• Implicit; recognition

Explicit memory is to procedural memory as the ___ is to the ___.

• Hypothalamus; cerebellum

• Amygdala; cerebellum

• Amygdala; hippocampus

• Hippocampus; cerebellum

• Neocortex; corpus callosum

Which part of the brain regulates information sorting and is primarily implicated with memory loss from Alzheimer's disease?

• Corpus callosum

• Hippocampus

• Hypothalamus

• Pituitary gland

• Thalamus

Which of the following is the best definition of explicit memory?

• Knowledge that can be consciously remembered.

• Memory of our past experiences.

• Memory of facts and concepts about the world.

• Memory of how to do things.

• Knowledge of people and places.

Bebe pulls an all-nighter to cram for her final exam. Maura sleeps after studying for her final. Maura is likely to perform better on the final than Bebe because she is taking advantage of which aspect of memory?

• Cognitive pragmatics

• Consolidation

• Cued recall

• Encoding specificity principle

• Priming

An elderly woman correctly recalls all thirty items from her shopping list. She accomplishes this by closing her eyes and walking around a mental room where she has associated each item with the location. She is using which memory technique?

• Chunking

• Cued recall

• Method of loci

• Procedural memory

• Recognition

Working memory is most similar to witch of the following?

• The memory in a laptop computer

• A calendar to-do list

• A file on a cloud-based server

• A painting in an art gallery

• A writing pad on which you write notes and then erase them

When given a list of words to remember, older adults _____

• recognize and recall just as many as younger adults

• recall fewer, but recognize as many as younger adults

• recall more, but recognize fewer than younger adults

• recognize more and recall more than younger adults

• recognize fewer and recall fewer than younger adults

To better remember the names of the five Great Lakes, you might use the acronym HOMES (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior). This is an example of ________________.

• Chunking

• Rehearsal

• Automatic processing

• Flashbulb memory

• The serial-position effect