Quiz Review: Short-term and long-term memory

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1. Eldon has just finished his essay test and handed it in. as he walks out of the classroom, he realizes that there were a few more things he should have included in the essay. Eldon's problem is in the memory process of...

• a. Encoding
• b. Storage
• c. Retrieval
• d. Retention

2. The simplest way to maintain information in short-term memory is to repeat the information in a process called..

• a. Chunking
• b. Rehearsal
• c. Revision
• d. Recall

3. An instructor gives her students a list of terms to memorize for their biology exam. After allowing the students three minutes to look over the list, she asks one student to recite the terms back to her, from memory. What information will this student likely be able to recall from the list?

• a. The student won’t recall any of the terms because he has not used rehearsal to encode them.
• b. Since there was no delay in asking for the terms, the student will remember those at the end of the list, showing a recency effect.
• c. Since there was a delay in asking for the terms, the student will remember those at the beginning of the list, showing a primacy effect.
• d. The student will recall only those items to which he has attached some meaning, regardless of where they fall on the list.

4. Which situation describes the use of episodic memory?

• a. Putri verified her identity over the phone by giving her date of birth.
• b. Abi remembered the excitement of the birthday party his friends had planned for him.
• c. Rena asked her teacher to name the capital of Mozambique.
• d. Rayyan recalled that a Lion air commercial jet had crashed over Maluku.

5. Sabila is shown pictures of five objects: a truck, a skyscraper, a cake, a lizard, and a pond. In which scenario is priming then utilized?

• a. He is asked to list the photos he looked at, and he remembers only the cake, the lizard, and the pond.
• b. He is told to remember the pictures, and he imagines a truck with a cake in the seat being driven by a lizard out of a pond and up the side of a skyscraper.
• c. He is asked to describe something that people eat for dessert, and he describes a chocolate cake.
• d. He is asked to list the cards in the order in which he looked at them, and he remembers only the truck, the skyscraper, and the lizard.