Missed Questions

Tim just moved to a new school in the middle of his junior year. He is given a locker combination but keeps entering the combination from his old locker before he remembers his new combination. This occurence is referred to as

• retroactive interference

• proactive interference

• retrograde amnesia

• anterograde amnesia

A momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli; a photographic or picture image memory lasting no more than a few tenths of a second..

• short term memory

• working memory

• explicit memory

• iconic memory

Retention independent of conscious recollection

• echoic memory

• iconic memory

• implicit memory

• explicit memory

After brief rapid stimulation cells demonstrate an increase in their firing potential. This neural basis for learning and memory is known as

• mood congruency

• priming

• implicit memory

• explicit memory

• long term potentiation

Leila is studying an alphabetical list of thirty African countries. She has a test tomorrow in her 4th grade history class and hopes to remember all thirty. According to the recency effect, it is most likely that Leila will

• remember the countries at the beginning of the list, but not the end

• recall the countries at the end of the list only

• remember all thirty correctly

• remember the countries from the middle of the list, but not as many from the beginning or the end

Implicit procedural memories for motor movement or skills like riding a bike seem to be a function of the

• amygdala

• hippocampus

• hypothalamus

• frontal lobe

• basal ganglia

Linda has a vivid memory of swimming with dolphins when she was a young girl, but her mother denies that this ever occurred. Her mother explained that Linda watched many movies about dolphins and visited them frequently at the aquarium as a toddler, but did not actually swim with them herself. The best explanation for Linda's constructed memory is

• retroactive interference

• source amnesia

• deja vu

• proactive interference