Lesson 12 Quiz

Select the most accurate statement about human long-term episodic memory:

Select one:
a. long-term episodic memory for his late childhood was very poor in the amnesic patient H.M., who had both temporal lobes, including the hippocampus, removed at the age of 27.
b. long-term episodic memory is located in the hippocampus.
c. long-term episodic memory is highly constructive and is prone to errors.
d. long-term episodic memory enables people to remember who the Prime Minister of Canada is, and what we commemorate on Remembrance Day.

After studying the planets for his astronomy exam for hours, John received a phone call from his friend who asked him to guess what kind of car he just bought. John immediately replied, "A Saturn." That John's prior exposure to stimuli related to planets influenced his response to his friend's question is called:

Select one:
a. explicit memory
b. generalization
c. maintenance rehearsal
d. priming

Research on eyewitness testimony has shown that:

Select one:
a. retrieval cues can bias eyewitness accounts
b. eyewitness testimony is more accurate because the event is encoded under stressful situations
c. eyewitness testimony is highly resistant to leading questions
d. women are generally more accurate eyewitnesses than men

Elaborative is to __________ as maintenance is to __________.

Select one:
a. effortful; automatic
b. short-term; long-term
c. association; repetition
d. automatic; effortful

Which of the following lists is the easiest to remember?

Select one:
a. 1487547854
b. 8642097531
c. 9473292712
d. 6018475894

Maria's ability to remember where she was on her 17th birthday illustrates _____ memory, whereas her ability to remember how to play Für Elise on the piano illustrates ____ memory. The former is more ____ whereas the latter is more _____.

Select one:
a. episodic; procedural; implicit; explicit
b. semantic; sensorimotor; explicit; implicit
c. episodic; procedural; explicit; implicit
d. semantic, procedural; explicit; implicit

Essay questions tend to be more difficult than multiple choice because with an essay question:

Select one:
a. there is more proactive inhibition
b. recall is required rather than recognition
c. there is more interference possible
d. encoding rehearsal is more effortful

People with truly exceptional memories generally have:

Select one:
a. learned techniques for organizing information
b. unusually large sensory memory capacity
c. a specific genetic basis to their ability
d. substituted memory that utilizes images for memory based on meaning

Azmy is participating in an experiment in which he just heard a list of 15 words, and is now being asked to recall them. He will probably:

Select one:
a. remember lots of items from the end of the list, not so many from the beginning and the middle
b. remember lots of items from the beginning of the list, not so many from the middle and the end
c. remember lots of items from the beginning and the end of the list, not so many from the middle
d. remember lots of items from the middle and end of the list, not so many from the beginning

Rehearsal works best to encode information into long term memory when:

Select one:
a. it is used to link new information with existing memories and knowledge
b. memories are updated or reorganized on the basis of logic, reasoning, or the addition of new information
c. part of a memory is used to reconstruct an entire complex memory
d. the information to be remembered is repeated over and over