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Worksheets2.4-2.7 quiz 11/25/2025
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Cassidy can only remember the titles of the first few books her teacher told her to get from the library. Which of the following concepts would best explain Cassidy’s experience?
Zone of proximal development
Insight learning
The misinformation effect
The primacy effect
A prototype is best defined as
an example of bottom-up processing
the equivalent of feature abstraction
the hypothetical "most typical" instance of a category
an essential element of category membership
A brain tumor that results in obesity would most likely be located in the
left frontal lobe
area of the hypothalamus
reticular activating system
somatosensory cortex
Xi Bai was injured in a car accident and sustained damage to the cerebellum. Which of the following would Xi Bai anticipate to be disrupted by this injury?
forming explicit and spatial memories
judgment, higher-order cognition, and personality
sensory processing and relaying
motor learning
Which of the following scenarios best demonstrates context-dependent memory?
Carol performs better in her recital when she practices in short sessions, several times a day.
Edgar solves his jigsaw puzzles faster when he completes the edges first.
Rosemarie shoots more accurately at her archery competition when other people are around.
Jeannette does better on her exam when she takes it in the same room where she studies.
The feeling that you know someone’s name, but cannot quite recall it, is an example of
the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
the serial position effect
state-dependent memory
retrograde amnesia
Which of the following is an example of metacognition?
Recognizing the faces of people after meeting them once
Solving a complex problem in a slow, deliberate way
Understanding the role of various parts of the brain in memory
Knowing the effectiveness of different strategies for learning statistical formulas
Jeremy is a doctoral student who wants to investigate the effectiveness of a new mnemonic device with third graders. His plan includes asking the children to complete an informed consent form. Which of the following reasons would cause his research project to be denied by an Institutional Review Board?
New teaching techniques are not researched.
Jeremy is not considered a legitimate researcher.
Children can express approval but only parents or legal guardians can provide consent.
Confidentiality cannot be assured in this scenario.
Which of the following scenarios is an example of retroactive interference?
After a car accident, Serena can no longer form new memories, though she can still remember things that happened before the accident.
Alexis believes that because she has played the lottery many times without winning, she is more likely to win than someone who has never played before.
Carl tries to remember the name of his first boss, but he cannot because he keeps thinking of the name of his current boss.
Raj just bought a new phone and keeps trying to turn it on by pushing the wrong button because the button is in the place where the on button was on his old phone.
Which of the following concepts is depicted in the graph?
State-dependent memory
Mood-congruent recall
The spacing effect
The serial position effect
Throughout January and the beginning of February, the first two months of a calendar year, Allison writes the previous year as the date on all her assignments instead of the current year. Allison’s tendency to write the wrong year on her assignments is most likely due to which of the following?
Retroactive interference
Anterograde amnesia
Proactive interference
Retrograde amnesia
Uma is able to remember a list of items she must buy by creating visual images of the items in various spots in her dorm room. The technique Uma is using is called
the method of loci
the peg-word method
eidetic imagery
chunking
After Doug witnessed two cars involved in a car accident, a police officer asked Doug how fast the cars were going when the accident happened. According to research by Elizabeth Loftus, which of the following questions could the officer ask that would make Doug most susceptible to the misinformation effect?
How fast were the cars going when the accident occurred?
How fast were the cars going when they smashed into each other?
What can you tell me about what you saw?
Were there other people around who witnessed the accident?
A researcher is planning an experiment to study aspects of forgetting. Which of the following most accurately describes what a dependent variable is for an experiment?
Some aspect of a participant’s response that is measured in an experiment
A factor that is manipulated by the experimenter in order to observe its effects on some other factor
A factor that can be used to predict how people in an experiment will respond
A factor that is equated for the experimental and the control group
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
If Juan tried to learn a long list of words, he would be most likely to forget words that
appeared early in the list
appeared near the end of the list
appeared in the middle of the list
were very unlike the rest of the words
Mary is introduced to three new people at a party. Later, however, she cannot remember the names of any of her new acquaintances, even though she remembers what she ate, her old friends who were there, and the address of the host. What may account for Mary’s inability to remember these individuals’ names?
She processed them into long-term memory, and they are no longer accessible from short-term memory.
There were many activities at the party. She probably exceeded the capacity of her long-term memory.
She never encoded the names into long-term memory
She experienced a failure of her echoic memory.
Refer to the bar graph showing Percent of Material Remembered for Massed and Distributed practice with One-day delay and One-week delay. Based on the data, what is the most appropriate conclusion?
Distributed practice is more effective at enhancing longer-term retention of material relative to massed practice.
Distributed practice is more effective than massed practice for short-term memory.
Massed practice is more effective than distributed practice is for enhancing sensory memory.
Massed practice is more effective for longer-term retention than distributed practice.
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
A researcher tested his memory using combinations of three-letter nonsense syllables. Which of the following graphs best represents his findings about the relationship between forgetting and time?
A graph showing a rapid initial decline in memory retention followed by a leveling off (the forgetting curve).
A linear graph showing a steady decline in memory retention over time.
A graph with no change in memory retention over time.
A graph showing an increase in memory retention over time.
Researchers collected data from eight participants about the number of important dates they recalled after learning about US History. The data are presented in the number set: 2, 11, 2, 3, 3, 4, 2, 5. What is the mode of the number set above?
2
3
4
9
The brain scans of people with amnesia are most likely to show damage to the
hippocampus
hypothalamus
medulla
cerebellum
Which of the following would most likely result from an injury to the medulla?
Receptive aphasia that makes it difficult to understand what other people are saying
Retrograde amnesia that destroys previously established memories
A problem regulating hunger
A life-threatening disruption of heartbeat and breathing
Corey has a list of things he needs from the grocery store but forgets his list at home. At the store, Corey struggles to remember the items on his list, but when he sees a display of oranges, he remembers that oranges were on his list. This is an example of
recall
recognition
working memory
sensory memory
The graph depicts which of the following phenomena?
Yerkes-Dodson law
Decay of short-term memory contents
The forgetting curve
The serial-position effect
