Memory and Recall Quiz

The difficulty many people have recalling the details of common objects such as pennies can best be explained by

• interference

• memory decay

• repression

• a lack of encoding

Dr. Roberts conducts a study in which one group of participants counts the number of syllables in each member of a list of twenty words, and the second group creates stories from the same set of words. When later asked to write down as many of the previously seen words as possible, the second group of participants recalls more words than the first group. This study shows the importance of

• semantic encoding

• maintenance rehearsal

• convergent thinking

• shallow processing

Hillary glances at a graph and then turns her head away less than a second later. When she tries to immediately remember what she saw, which of the following types of memory does Hillary use?

• Iconic

• Declarative

• Implicit

• Echoic

Although she has not sustained any injuries, Riley cannot remember anything before the age of three. She is most likely experiencing

• retrograde amnesia

• anterograde amnesia

• infantile amnesia

• proactive interference

In elementary school, Lisa learned to speak some Japanese in addition to English. As a sophomore in high school, Lisa took a class in Chinese. She found that some of the new vocabulary was difficult to learn because her earlier Japanese vocabulary was competing with the new Chinese words. This situation best illustrates

• repression

• proactive interference

• retroactive interference

• source amnesia

John suffered a head injury in an accident five years ago. He now has clear memories of events that occurred before the accident, but he has great difficulty remembering any of the experiences he has had since the accident. John’s symptoms describe which of the following?

• Anterograde amnesia

• Broca’s aphasia

• Proactive interference

• Retroactive interference

A teacher asks Yvonne to go to another classroom to get a student whom Yvonne has never met. As she walks, she repeats the student’s name to herself over and over to help her remember. Yvonne is boosting her memory by using which of the following memory concepts?

• elaborative rehearsal

• distributed learning

• maintenance rehearsal

• a mnemonic device

Kay’s ability to drive a car reflects which of the following types of memory?

• Explicit

• Working

• Procedural

• Sensory

A childhood friend asked Jeffrey whether he remembered where they went on summer vacation when they were eight years old. Jeffrey’s ability to recall correctly will rely on which of the following?

• Recognition memory

• The method of loci

• Implicit memory

• Episodic memory

Professor DuVall teaches two classes of psychology. For Class Y, their first quiz consisted of multiple-choice questions. Class Z’s first quiz covered the same material, but the questions required that students write a short answer for each question. Professor DuVall compared the scores for Class Y and Class Z and found that the mean score for Class Y was 76%, while the mean score for Class Z was 89%. In terms of memory retrieval processes, which of the following is consistent with this outcome?

• Recognition processes led to higher scores than recall on this quiz.

• Recall led to higher scores than recognition on this quiz.

• The range is more accurate than the mean when interpreting this type of data.

• The students’ metacognition was a major influence on scores for Class Z, but not for Class Y.