WorksheetsUnit 5 Progress Check
Total questions: 36
Worksheet time: 23mins
Short-term memory is best described as
memory of how to perform an activity, such as riding a bike
memory of facts and general knowledge
memory that can hold only a small amount of information
memory of specific events
memory of a surprising event
Which of the following psychologists is best associated with studying the function of memory?
Mary Whiton Calkins
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Erik Erikson
Carl Rogers
Carl Wernicke
Which of the following statements about automatic processing or effortful processing is true?
Effortful processing does not require conscious awareness
Effortful processing makes other processing more difficult.
Automatic processing requires little mental effort.
Automatic processing does not improve with practice.
Effortful processing is affected by intelligence.
An example of using elaborative encoding to improve memory is
Sam remembering which tree is the ginkgo by using the phrase “stinko ginkgo” because the fruit of the ginkgo tree smells bad
Trevor remembering to buy milk at the grocery store by putting a note on the refrigerator
Emilia remembering a new acquaintance’s name by silently repeating the name after learning it
Arthur remembering to pick up a cake before leaving work by asking a coworker for a reminder at the end of the workday
Diego remembering the meanings of Spanish vocabulary words by creating flash cards and studying them
David was studying some important historical dates for a test. He noticed that the day and month of one of the dates was the same as his own birthday, and he tried to use that fact to help him remember the date for his test. What is David using to enhance his memory?
Method of loci
Self-reference
Retroactive interference
Overlearning
The recency effect
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
elaborative rehearsal
distributed learning
maintenance rehearsal
a mnemonic device
imagery
Jeanette is curious to see how many numbers she can hold in her mind at once. She asks her friend to test her on lists of random digits to see how many she can remember. Based on what is known about the average limits of short-term memory capacity, what is the most likely number of digits Jeanette will be able to remember?
Two
Seven
Ten
Eleven
Twelve
The fact that Lori finds herself thinking about dogs and other pets after seeing a cat is evidence that human memory is organized into
an association network
a hierarchy
a mental set
a schema
mnemonics
To remember a list of words, Jerry tries walking through his bedroom and making associations between words on the list and various areas he visits in his bedroom. Jerry is trying to improve his memory encoding by using
distributed learning
the method of loci
maintenance retrieval
echoic memory
lateral inhibition
Which of the following illustrates the primacy effect?
Jason remembers the last two digits of his doctor’s phone number but not any other digits.
Susan left her grocery list at home and can remember only the first two items on the list.
Frederick thinks people are paying attention to him when they actually are not.
Paul gets a reward every time he gets on the bus for school on time.
When his son Freddie cries because he wants a candy bar, Mr. Dunbar gives the boy the candy to stop him from crying.
An example of state-dependent memory is
Tommy finding it easier to remember the materials on an exam while taking it because he was sad while studying for the exam
Jeremy saying he knew his favorite football team was going to lose all along after they lost the game
Josef remembering only the first five linking verbs during his English exam despite studying to remember the entire list
Willow believing she is always sad when it rains despite her being sad sometimes when it is sunny
George liking Francine more than when he had met her the first day of class after sitting next to her in class each week
Explicit memories are
retrieved from the amygdala
created in the thalamus
retrieved from the cerebellum
created in the hippocampus
stored in the basal ganglia
Which of the following scenarios is best explained by long-term potentiation?
Erik and Harry don’t like each other when they are first assigned to the same a room during a class trip, but after spending a great deal of time together, they begin to like each other more.
When Sophia first enters a dark room after coming in from outside, she can’t see anything, but her eyes adjust after a few minutes.
At first, Benjamin needs to drink only a small amount of a caffeinated beverage to feel its effects, but after drinking it regularly for a while, he needs more to feel the same effects.
Alan wants to stop studying to go to a party but stops himself by thinking about his future career.
The first time Colleen tries to remember Leo’s name it takes her a long time, but over time she remembers it more quickly.
A logical, systematic procedure for solving a problem is known as
an algorithm
an action potential
an analogy
a conditioned reflex
a heuristic
John went to the beach for vacation shortly after having watched a documentary film about shark attacks. Overestimating the possibility of encountering a shark in the water, he decided to spend the day sunbathing and reading instead of going for a swim. John’s reasoning can be explained through
the availability heuristic
the gambler’s fallacy
source monitoring
confirmation bias
counterfactual thinking
A researcher wanted to test the psychometric properties of a new intelligence test for children. She administered the test twice, two months apart, to children in a fourth-grade classroom. On the second administration, she noticed that the children who performed well were not the same children who performed well on the first administration and that there appeared to be no relationship between student performance on the first and second administration of the test. Based on this scenario, the psychological construct missing from this intelligence test is
test-retest reliability, because the researcher is administering the same test twice
test-retest reliability, because the researcher is administering equivalent forms of the test twice
split-half reliability, because the researcher is administering the same test twice
split-half reliability, because the researcher is administering equivalent forms of the same test twice
internal-consistency reliability, because the researcher is administering the same test twice
If information that has been stored in memory is not used for an extended period of time, what will most likely happen to that memory?
Encoding Failure
Retrieval Failure
Retrograde Interference
Storage Decay
Anterograde Amnesia
Which type of amnesia keeps us from remembering information from the first 2-3 years of our lives?
Anterograde
Retrograde
Infantile
Iconic
Echoic
A person with lower than average intelligence who has an amazing, unusual mental skill is known as a
genius
savant
prodigy
nerd
The WAIS was designed for testing ________ intelligence, whereas the WISC was designed for testing ________ intelligence.
interpersonal; intrapersonal
practical; creative
adults'; children's
analytical; emotional
