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PSY Unit 3

Total questions: 34

Worksheet time: 1hrs 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Applied: a 1-800 number for a product Ron was interested in flashed on the tv however, unfortunately the number disappeared from the screen before Ron could complete writing the number down. However, Ron had a momentary mental after image of the number.
a)

Sensory Memory

b)

Long term memory

c)

Short term memory

2.
Flashbulb memory deals with...
a)

LTM and has some emotional image.

b)

STM and has some emotional image

c)

Sensory memory and has some emotional image

d)

STM and has some analytic image

e)

LTM and has some analytic image

3.
Application: Imagine that you complete your programing course but after the course, you don't use the knowledge, according to Ebbinghaus, what did you expect? (What did he experience)
a)

Fast forgetting then Slow gruel forgetting later on

b)

Slow forgetting then fast gruel forgetting later on

c)

Medium forgetting then fast gruel forgetting later on

4.
Which of the 3 memory stores in this chapter is also referred to as working memory?
a)

LTM

b)

STM

c)

Sensory memory

5.
The decay theory of forgetting is best able to explain the lost memories for which two memory storage?
a)

STM and sensory

b)

LTM and sensory

c)

LTM and STM

6.
Interference of forgetting is best able to explain the lost memories for which memory storage?
a)

LTM

b)

STM

c)

Sensory

7.
Application: Faith had brain surgery to remove a small tumor from her temporal lobe and in recovery, it appeared that she was going to be fine however after a few days, it seems that she cannot remember anything that has happened since the surgery. She is suffering from?
a)

Anterograde

b)

Retrograde

c)

Recall

d)

Relearning

8.
Application: during a party, Elizabeth was talking to a friend about a symbolizing involved a movie that she watched. She tells her friends that she heard it from a well-known movie critic, but she actually heard it from her roommate. Example of what?
a)

Source monitoring error

b)

Reconstructive memory

c)

Primary effect

d)

Context effect

9.
You are absorbing the information from a textbook when your phone rings. You answer the phone and have a conversation. Once you end the call, you realize that you forgot everything that you were absorbing earlier. Information was lost from what memory storage? In addition, the phone prevented you to do what with the information?
a)

STM and encoding

b)

LTM Storage

c)

Sensory memory Rehersal

d)

STM Rehearsal

e)

LTM Retrieval

10.

The gradual version of information into durable LTM

a)

Consolidation

b)

Rehersal

c)

Flashbulb Memories

d)

Storage

11.
Application Sam had learned to play a music piece at ten years old. Somone wanted him to play again at 30 so when began practicing again, he noticed that he has the piece mastered in about 30 mins when it had taken him hours to learn it as a kid. Example of?
a)

Relearning

b)

Recalling

c)

Reuptake

d)

Recognition

e)

Retention

12.
An essay test uses what method of measuring retention?
a)

Recall

b)

Recognition

c)

Relearning

13.
MCQ uses what method of measuring retention?
a)

Recall

b)

Relearning

c)

Recognition

14.
Application: Craig is being introduced to a new member of a fraternity clinic. He meets 15 members although after introductions are over, craig realize that he can only Rember the names of the first 3 and last 2 people that he meets. Example of?
a)

Serial Position effect

b)

Flashbulb memory

c)

Source monitoring effect

d)

Encoding Faliure

15.
Application: for three key processing applies for this scenario? John listens to a speech and translates information into new memory.
a)

Storage

b)

Encoding

c)

Retrieval

16.
Even though Emma was able to say all of her lines correctly, her director told her to practice those lines 5 more times before opening night
a)

Overlearning

b)

Repression

c)

Massed Practice

d)

Disturbed Practice

17.
Application: Your female friend recently got married and is now using a new last name. However, you seem to keep forgetting her new last name? You are suffering from?
a)

Proactive Interference

b)

Retroactive Interference

c)

Repression

d)

Depression

18.
Which theory would explain well why a person is more likely to remember words like typewriter or fire?
a)

Dual coding

b)

Levels of processing

c)

Antrograde

d)

Retrograde

19.
What is the most important brain structure involved in LTM function?
a)

Hypocampus

b)

Frontal lobe

c)

Linear Lobe

d)

Linear vertex

20.
According to the interference theory, which of the 3 key processes of memory is responsible for forgetting?
a)

Encoding

b)

Storage

c)

Retrieval

21.
Application: At school, Michael learns his new locker combination but forgets his old bike's combination. He is experiencing the effects of?
a)

Antrograde

b)

Retrograde

c)

Retrieval

d)

Storage

22.
T or F of levels of processing theory: shallow processing = effective encoding
a)

True

b)

False

23.
These are all examples of what: ROYGBIV, Please excuse my dear aunt sally, Never eat soggy waffles.
a)

mnemonic devices

b)

Overlearning

c)

Proactive learning

d)

Motivated learning

24.
Application: You have a task in mind that needs to be completed outside. Once your outside, you forget the task but when returned to the same spot where you thought of the task, you remember. Example of what?
a)

Flashbulb Memory

b)

Consolidating

c)

Context effect

25.
Two people believed that they had a joyful wedding. After getting a divorce, they begin to remember the wedding as hectic and unpleasant. Example of what?
a)

Reconstructive memory

b)

Relearning memory

c)

Recall memory

d)

Retention memory

26.
T or F: The work of researcher Loftus on memory errors suggest that memory is best used as a tape recorder
a)

True

b)

False

27.
Which theory of forgetting suggest that people will forget information because of competition of other material
a)

Interference theory

b)

Recall Theory

c)

Relearning

d)

Storage

28.
STM corresponds with which study?
a)

Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve

b)

Peterson and peterson study

c)

Decay theory

29.
LTM corresponds with which study?
a)

Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve

b)

Peterson and peterson study

c)

Decay theory

30.
Sensory memory corresponds with which study?
a)

Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve

b)

Peterson and peterson study

c)

Decay theory

31.
Interference Theory
a)

Retrieval Failure

b)

Competition with other materials

c)

Forgetting Curve

d)

Encoding Failure

32.
Peterson and peterson study deals with?
a)

Numbers

b)

Shapes

c)

MNB, CBG, etc.

33.
Janet was badly burn as a child and now as 20 years old, she has no memory of ever being burned. Freud would say that this is an example of
a)

Repression

b)

Depression

c)

Reconstructive memory

d)

Relearning memory

e)

Motivating reforming

34.

What did Ebbinghaus do?

a)

He created a study on repression by viewing peoples tragic stories

b)

He created a study that viewed how many number patterns people can remember

c)

He created a study that tested his knowledge with antagrams