Unit 5 MCQ Review

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

• unlimited in capacity

• long-lasting

• resistant to decay

• limited in capacity

Chuck recalls the day last summer when he fell off his bicycle and scraped his knee. This is an example of

• episodic memory

• semantic memory

• procedural memory

• short-term memory

Memories of well-learned skills, such as riding a bicycle, are classified as

• declarative

• semantic

• procedural

• echoic

Which of the following concepts is depicted in the graph?

• State-dependent memory

• Mood-congruent recall

• The serial position effect

• Chunking

Which of the following best describes the primacy effect?

• When people have better recall of things that occur at the beginning of a sequence

• When people have better recall of things that occur at the end of a sequence

• When people state that things that have happened to them recently occur more frequently than they actually do

• When people tend to rely too heavily on the first piece of information they get when making decisions

In memory experiments on free recall, the recency effect refers specifically to the

• enhanced recall of items at the beginning of a list of words

• enhanced recall of items at the end of a list of words

• enhanced recall of items in the middle of a list of words

• diminished recall of items at the end of a list of words

Which of the following is the most useful study strategy to help a student retain the words in a vocabulary list?

• Focusing on the pronunciation of the words

• Putting the words in alphabetical order

• Using each word in a sentence

• Counting the number of syllables in each word

Which of the following increases the chance that an individual will remember a telephone number that has been called several times within a short period?

• Spacing

• Retrieval

• Spontaneous recovery

• Rehearsal

A teacher has to learn 170 new student names every year and finds it difficult to remember the names of former students. The teacher’s memory problem most likely results from:

• proactive interference

• retroactive interference

• retroactive amnesia

• the misinformation effect

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

• dissociative amnesia

• anterograde amnesia

• retrograde amnesia