Exam 2 Practice Exam pt 1

Which of the following tasks involve working memory?

• Reading a novel

• Mental arithmetic problems

• Keeping a new phone number in mind just long enough to write it down.

• All of the above.

Which of the following does NOT provide strong evidence for the existence of the phonological loop:

• the primacy effect

• the phonological similarity effect

• the word-length effect

• the speed of speech effect

In the tripartite theory of working memory proposed by Baddeley and Hitch, the _____________ is primarily responsible for holding and maintaining information about objects and locations.

• Central Executive

• Phonological Loop

• Articulatory Loop

• Visuo-Spatial Sketchpad

Jeremy has anterograde amnesia as a result of a brain injury that occurred during his adulthood. Which of the following activities would Jeremy most likely have difficulty with?

• Remembering what he had for dinner last night

• Solving a math problem

• Following a recipe to bake a cake

• Recalling a childhood memory

Carly is asked to memorize a list of words. Her recall for words at the end of the list is ________ than for words towards the middle of the list. This is called the __________ effect.

• higher; primacy

• higher; recency

• lower; primacy

• lower; recency

If patients (with damage to either the temporal or parietal area of the brain) completed a task where they identified objects (object task) and a separate task where they identified the location of objects (spatial task), which of the following patterns of task deficits would provide evidence for a double dissociation between the object task and spatial task.

• A

• B

• C

• D

Which of the following is the best example of semantic memory?

• Knowing that 2 + 2 = 4.

• Recalling your vacation to California last summer

• Knowing how to ride a bike

• Knowing what you did for your sister’s birthday last December

Which of the following statements is NOT consistent with the Modern View of Categorization:

• an object belongs to a category if it is similar to members of that category.

• category boundaries are fuzzy and probabilistic.

• an object belongs to a category if it fits the definition of that category.

When asked to judge the following sentences as “true” or “false”, people will MOST likely show the slowest response to which of the following sentences?

• Lion is an animal.

• Dog is an animal.

• Elephant is an animal.

• Narwhal (a type of whale) is an animal.

Which of the following does NOT fall under the category of implicit memory?

• Priming

• Semantic knowledge

• Habits/skills

• Conditioning