psych

Caitlin, a fifth grader, is asked to remember her second-grade teacher's name. What measure of retention will Caitlin use to answer the question

• storage

• recognition

• relearning

• recall

in history class, James is effortfully and actively thinking about how various events connect with one another, connecting the new material to what he has learned in the past. This making of connections in the moment best describes James'

• sensory memory

• working memory

• relearning information

• long- term memory

Melonis boss gave her the phone number, including the area code, of a client she needed to call. As Meloni goes to enter the phone number into the contacts list on her phone, the finds that she cannot remember all the numbers in the right order. Which of the following is the best explanation for this failure

• being ten digits long, the number is beyond Millers working memory capacity

• Meloni lacks echoic memory

• because the number is so short, Meloni did not pay enough attention to it.

• Meloni's echoic memory disrupted her encoding of the number

which of the following is most likely to be encoded automatically

• the side-angle-side geometry theorem

• the name of the last 10 presidents of the US

• what you ate for breakfast

• the license plate of your new car

which of the following is most likely to lead to semantic encoding of a list of words

• thinking about how the words relate to your own life

• practicing the words for a single extended period

• breaking up the practice into several relatively short sessions

• focusing on the number of vowels and constants in the words

Dr. Gusdaw conducted a memory experiment that examined the brain regions associated with forming implicit memories. Which of the following would be the best choice for his independent variable

• activation of frontal lobes

• activation in the hippocampus

• activation of the cerebellum

• activation in the occipital lobes

which of the following is an example of a flashbulb memory

• Barry remembers an especially bright sunrise, because he was by the ocean and the sunlight reflected off the water

• Roberto remembers that correlation does not prove a cause-effect relationship because his teacher emphasized this fact over and over again

• Anna remembers when her father returned from an overseas military deployment because the day was very emotional for her

• Kristof more clearly remembers second grade than third grade because his second -grade teacher has the same name as his neighbor

this type of memory is nearly limitless and at times, lasts forever

• sensory memory

• long-term memory

• short-term memory

• working memory

how people group similar concepts together based on their interrelations. What is this

• infantile amnesia

• semantic networks

• semantic memory

• episodic memory

John has noticed that he does better on his chemistry exams when he takes them all in the same seat in which he sits during class than when he sits in a different seat for exams. Assuming that john is properly prepared for exams, what psychological concept best explains the difference in the scores

• recall

• context-dependent memory

• explicit memory

• the serial position effect