Psychology Test

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The information held in sensory memory is amb at a conscious level an accurate and complete representation of the original stimulus. store there for extended periods of time kept available by rehearsal. 2. Visual sensory memory is called: iconic memory echose memory working memory d phonological memory Which of the following is the most critical element of Sperling's (1960) experimental design which resulted in the determination of the capacity of iconic memory? a. The subjects knew which row of the matrix to look at before they saw the matrix, The letter matrix was shown for 5 seconds. c. The presentation time of the letter matrix was varied across subjects. d. The subjects were alerted by a tone on which row to report after the letter matrix was presented 4. The duration of echoic memory is roughly: a. I to 10 seconds. b. 2 to 3 seconds c. 6 seconds d. 8 seconds 5. The information received in your short-term memory is transferred from your after the original stimulus experience. a. sensory memory. b. long-term memory. c. sensory and long-term memory. d. working memory. 6. Which of the following statements is NOT true? a. Chunks are meaningful units of information. b. Chunking may be accomplished through the use of stimulus markers. c. Chunks contain 7 plus or minus 2 elements. d. Chunking can work material from short-term memory to long-term memory, 24. An investigator reads a list of 25 words to a group of people in a psychology experiment. She subsequently asks the group to recall as many words from the list as they can. For those subjects who use maintenance rehearsal, they will tend to have a difficult time remembering words from the middle of the list, but will be able to recall several words from the beginning and end of the list. The tendency to remember words at the end of the list illustrates the: a. primacy effect. b. recency effect. c. retroactive decay. d. serial decay function. 25. The memory system that holds visual and auditory stimuli for the shortest period is the: a. long-term memory system. b. sensory memory. c. short-term memory system. d. elaborative memory system. 26. Unless it is reinstated by rehearsal, information in short-term memory will last at most: a. three or four minutes. b. one or two seconds. c. twenty seconds. d. fifteen to twenty minutes. 27. In regard to sensory memory, auditory memory is to visual memory as is to a. iconic; echoic b. engram; iconic c. iconic; engram d. echoic; iconic 28. According to an information processing model, the first stage of memory is: a. short-term memory b. long-term memory c. semantic memory d. sensory memory 29. The general term for strategies or devices intended to help memory by using long term memory is: a. fantasy. b. mnemonic systems. c. retrievers. d. encoding. 5 cer, eagle, swordfish, table, bear, ng a tachistoscope cope) and asked to 46. Ancient Greek orators had no way to write down their speeches so they devised other methods to aid recall. They imagined that they were walking through a temple and associated each part of their speech with a statue in the temple. What do we call this method? a. coding b. grouping c. method of loci d. pegword method 47. Which of the following examples represents deep processing as described by Craik and Lockhart? a. repeating a word aloud ten times b. attending to the sound of a word c. thinking about the meaning of a word d. looking at the shapes of the letters in a word 48. Which of the following examples represent the most shallow processing as described by Craik and Lockhart? a. recalling an object's function b. attending to the sound of a word c. thinking about the meaning of a word d. recalling that an object was rectangular 49. AQR is a. b. c. d. a mneumonic a nonsense syllable an acronym for a forgetting process a and b a and c e. 50. Psychologists who study memory are called a. cognitive psychologists. b. learning psychologists. behavioral psychologists. d. clinical psychologists. c. 51. A: An example of proactive inhibition is when a tennis player who is learning a new forehand motion in practice is bothered by his old motion returning when he is under pressure during an important match. B: Retroactive inhibition is when Jenny forgets material she learned from Chapter 6 as she begins to memorize material from Chapter 7. a. A is true; B is true. b. A is true; B is false. c. A is false; B is true. d. A is false; B false. 9 46. Ancient Greek artosha They imagined that they were the temple. What do we call Surpose nous Jack is presented with a list of the following 12 words (one at a time using a tachistoscope) and wake memorize as many as he can in 1 1/2 minutes: cat, robin, shark, chair, tiger, eagle, swordfish, table, beurs cardinal, bass, lamp. Answer the following questions based on this information. 41. Jack will recall more words if he organizes them by categories as he learns them. a True b. False 12. In memorizing the words, Jack repeats them over and over to himself, for example, "cat robin shark...cat robin shark". This strategy is called: a elaborate rehearsal b. maintenance rehearsal c. the mnemonic approach d. method of loci 43. Which of the following strategies would help Jack memorize the most words? a. associating a color with each word. b. associating a sound with each word. c. creating an image using several words, for example, "a robin riding on the back of a cat who is being chased by a shark." d. repeating the words over and over in his mind e associating a number with each word. 44. Sally, a mother and accountant, is being hypnotized by Dr. Mond to help her recall a possible abuse situation with her step-father when she was 11 years old. Which of the following is true? a. Whatever is uncovered through the process can be used as reliable evidence in a trial b. Dr. Mond needs to be careful not create a false memory. c. "Where did your father touch you next?" is a good question to obtain accurate information. d. a, b, and c are all true. 45. What implication can be drawn from Elizabeth Loftus's experiment concerning people's memory for slides depicting a car wreck? a. We are very accurate in encoding speed. b. Our high confidence in our memories is reflected in the accuracy of our recall. c. Careful questioning can help us recall information we thought we had forgotten. d. Questions that are inconsistent with what we have seen can alter our memories. 8 he subse 24. An investigatore they can. For those experiment 19. A vivid memory that is accompanied by a strong emotional reaction is called an memory a. episodio b. phonological e. flashbulb d. powerful 20. Your history professor decides to administer the final exam in a large auditorium instead of the regular classroom. You ask the professor to reconsider. What psychological concept provides the strongest argument for administering the exam in the original room? a. semantic encoding b. context-dependent learning c. classical conditioning d. state-dependent learning 21. Lonnie was telling his friends about his trip to Disney Land a year ago. This information was retrieved from his memory. a. personal b. episodic c. short-term d. working e. implicit 22. Peterson & Peterson's (1959) research demonstrated that: a. stimuli remain in working memory without rehearsal for less than 20 seconds. b. working memory rarely uses chunking strategies. c. rehearsal in working memory can be eliminated by having the subject count backwards. d. a and b e. a and c 23. According to Peterson and Peterson (1959) and as shown in class, simply blocking rehearsal of words by counting backwards by three will cause information in short-term memory to a. consolidate. b. decay. c. be cross-modally represented. d. be transferred to long-term memory. 4
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