Transcript iClicker Questions for Psychology for AP by David G. Myers Unit 7A: Memory

iClicker Questions for
Psychology for AP
by David G. Myers
Karla Gingerich, Colorado State University
Unit 7A: Memory
Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin’s
classic three-stage model of memory
includes all of the following, EXCEPT:
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B.
C.
D.
short-term memory.
long-term memory.
flashbulb memory.
sensory memory.
When you hear familiar words in your native
language, it is virtually impossible not to register
the meanings of the words. This best illustrates the
importance of:
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A.
B.
C.
D.
chunking.
flashbulb memory.
automatic processing.
iconic memory.
According to the serial position effect,
you will remember more:
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A. items at the beginning and end of a list, than
in the middle.
B. items in the middle of a list, than at the
beginning and end.
C. vocabulary words if you process them visually.
D. vocabulary words if you process them
acoustically.
Which of the following processes is
likely to result in the best memory for
words?
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B.
C.
D.
visual encoding
acoustic encoding
rote memorization
semantic encoding
Memories of emotional events are
especially likely to be facilitated by
activation of the:
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A.
B.
C.
D.
amygdala.
hypothalamus.
sensory cortex.
motor cortex.
Which of the following is most likely to
be stored as an implicit memory?
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B.
C.
D.
a mental image of one's best friend
the date of one's own birth
a conditioned fear of guns
one's own name
Priming refers to:
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A. the sense that one has been in a particular situation
before.
B. better recall for experiences that are consistent with
one’s current mood.
C. attributing a memory to an erroneous source.
D. the activation of associations in memory.
Each of the following “sins of memory”
involves distortion, EXCEPT:
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A.
B.
C.
D.
suggestibility.
bias.
misattribution.
absent-mindedness.
The reason most North Americans
cannot accurately describe the head of a
penny is due to:
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B.
C.
D.
storage decay.
encoding failure.
motivated forgetting.
retrieval failure.
After suffering a brain injury in a motorcycle
accident, Adam cannot form new memories. He
can, however, remember his life experiences before
the accident. Adam's memory difficulty most clearly
illustrates:
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A.
B.
C.
D.
repression.
retroactive interference.
encoding failure.
source amnesia.
During her evening Spanish language exam, Janica so easily
remembers the French vocabulary she studied that morning
that she finds it difficult to recall the Spanish vocabulary she
rehearsed that afternoon. Her difficulty best illustrates:
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A.
B.
C.
D.
the spacing effect.
proactive interference.
retroactive interference.
state-dependent memory.
The surprising ease with which people
form false memories best illustrates that
the processes of encoding and retrieval
involve:
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A.
B.
C.
D.
implicit memory.
automatic processing.
long-term potentiation.
memory construction.
Critical Thinking Questions
Which of the following would be predicted by Ebbinghaus’ famous
forgetting curve? Several years after learning the dates of important
historical events for a college class, students:
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A. will remember most of the dates, and will remember
them for years to come.
B. will remember most of the dates, and will slowly start
to forget them.
C. will have forgotten most of the dates, but what they
do remember, they’ll remember for years to come.
D. will have forgotten most of the dates, but during the
years to come, they will again remember what they initially
forgot.
You are used to driving a car with a
standard shift. Today you are driving a
friend’s car that has an automatic
transmission. As you drive, you keep
trying to shift gears, but there is no shift.
This tendency is most likely due to:
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B.
C.
D.
retroactive interference.
proactive interference.
motivated forgetting.
encoding failure.
We have all had the experience of the tip-of-the-tongue
phenomenon. We are asked to remember someone’s name. We are
certain that we know the name and feel as if we are just about to
remember it, yet it remains elusive. What type of forgetting might
be at work here?
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A.
B.
C.
D.
encoding failure
retroactive interference
retrieval failure
motivated forgetting
You are asked to recall the names of the Seven Dwarfs in the Snow
White fairy tale. You are familiar with the story, and may have even
seen a movie of the story, yet you cannot remember all seven names
accurately. What type of memory problem might account for this?
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B.
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retrieval failure
encoding failure
proactive interference
storage failure
As a child, Theo often looked at a picture album that
included photos of a family reunion. Although Theo had
not attended the reunion because he had been ill, he
remembers being there. Theo’s mistake best illustrates
the “sin” of:
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B.
C.
D.
suggestibility.
persistence.
misattribution.
transience.