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Unit 7A Memory
Quiz by Joe Hunt
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Q.Encoding that occurs with no effort or a minimal level of conscious attention is known as
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Q.Automatic processing occurs without
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Q.In an effort to remember how to spell "Mississippi," Corey spells the word aloud 30 times. He is using a technique known as
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Q.The tendency for distributed study to yield better long term retention than massed study is known as
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Q.The tendency to immediately recall the first and last items on a list better than the middle items is known as the _________ effect.
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Q.The process of getting information into memory is called
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Q.The process of getting information out of memory is called
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Q.Your consciously activated but limited-capacity memory is called____________ memory
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Q.The relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of memory is called___________ memory
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Q.To recognize the active information processing that occurs in short term memory, researchers have characterized it as __________ memory.
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Q.The process by which information is encoded by its meaning is called
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Q.Semantic encoding refers to the processing of
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Q.Which type of memory has essentially unlimited capacity?
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Q.Chunking refers to
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Q.Words, events, places and emotions that trigger our memory of the past are called
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Q.The smell of freshly baked bread awakened in Dalton's vivid memories of his early childhood. The aroma apparently acted as a powerful
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Q.Iconic memory refers to
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Q.Sounds and words that are not immediately attended to can still be recalled a couple of seconds later because of our ________ memory.
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Q.A retention of skills and dispositions without conscious recollection is known as ________ memory.
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Q.A baseball strikes Ashlee in the head and she is momentarily knocked unconscious. The physical injury, though not serious, is most likely to interfere with Ashlee's ________ memory.
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Q.The increase in synaptic firing potential that contributes to memory formation is known as
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Q.Exceptionally clear memories of emotionally significant events are called
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Q.A mnemonic device is a
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Q.Our immediate short term memory for new material is limited to roughly _____ bits of information.
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Q."The magical number 7, plus or minus 2" refers to the storage capacity of ____ memory.
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Q.During the course of a day, people may unconsciously encode the sequence of the day's events. This best illustrates
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Q.The effortful processing of information
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Q.Recorded information played during sleep is registered by the ears but is not remembered. This illustrates that the retention of information requires
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Q.Students who restudy course material at the end of a semester in order to pass the AP final exam are especially likely to demonstrate long-term retention of the course material. This best illustrates the value of
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Q.Which of the following is the best example of the testing effect?
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Q.We can encode many sensory experiences simultaneously, some automatically, because of which property of the brain?
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Q.Some information in our fleeting ________ is encoded into short-term memory.
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Q.Every day as she walks to school, Mamie passes a mural painted on the side of a building. However, when asked, she says she does not remember ever seeing it. Which of the following is the best explanation for this occurrence?
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Q.Most people misrecall the sentence, “The angry rioter threw the rock at the window” as “The angry rioter threw the rock through the window.” This best illustrates the importance
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Q.Miranda easily remembers the telephone reservation number for Holiday Inns by using the mnemonic 1-800-HOLIDAY. She is using a memory aid known as
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Q.Using the mnemonic ROY G. BIV to remember the colors of the rainbow in the order of wavelength illustrates the use of
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Q.Retrieval cues are most likely to facilitate a process known as
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Q.When an eyewitness to an auto accident is asked to describe what happened, which test of memory is being used?
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Q.An eyewitness to a grocery store robbery is asked to identify the suspects in a police lineup. Which test of memory is being utilized?
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Q.The address for obtaining tickets to a popular quiz show flashes on the TV screen, but the image disappears before Sergei has had a chance to write down the complete address. To his surprise, however, he has retained a momentary mental image of the five-digit zip code. His experience best illustrates ________ memory.
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Q.For a moment after hearing his dog's high-pitched bark, Josh has a vivid auditory impression of the dog's yelp. His experience most clearly illustrates ________ memory.
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Q.After having a stroke, Aaron has great difficulty recalling any of his subsequent life experiences. He is most likely suffering from
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Q.Unlike implicit memories, explicit memories are processed by the
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Q.We are more likely to remember the words “typewriter, cigarette, and fire” than the words “void, process, and inherent.” This best illustrates the value of
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Q.Peterson and Peterson asked people to count aloud backward after they were presented with three consonants. This study found that ________ memories have a limited duration without active processing and rehearsal.
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Q.A flashbulb memory would typically be stored in ________ memory.
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Q.Ebbinghaus' retention curve best illustrates the value of
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Q.Proactive and retroactive interference contribute most strongly to the
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Q.Your relative success in recalling various items one day after you first heard them listed in order is likely to illustrate
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Q.Short-term memory is slightly better
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