5 Written Questions

1. 15. Recalling something that you had once merely imagined happening as something you had directly experienced best illustrates:
2. 11. Whenever Valerie experiences intense feelings of fear, she is overwhelmed with childhood memories of her abusive parents. Valerie's experience best illustrates:
3. 3. An understanding of the spacing effect provides insight into effective strategies for:
4. 11. The happier Judie is, the more readily she recalls experiences with former teachers who were warm and generous. This best illustrates that emotional states can be:
5. 5. The method of loci relies heavily on the use of:

5 Matching Questions

1. a mnemonic device.
2. hippocampus
3. memory construction.
4. effortful processing
5. long-term potentiation

1. a 14. The surprising ease with which people form false memories best illustrates that the processes of encoding and retrieval involve:
2. b 9. Certain patients with amnesia are incapable of recalling activities, yet they can be conditioned to blink their eyes in response to a specific sound. They have most likely suffered damage to the:
3. c 2. The extensive rehearsal necessary to encode nonsense syllables best illustrates:
4. d 7. Which of the following is believed to be the synaptic basis for learning and memory?
5. e 6. Employing the single word "HOMES" to remember the names of North America's five Great Lakes best illustrates the use of:

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. 10. A measure of your memory in which you need to pick the correctly learned answer from a displayed list of options is known as a measure of:
   1. rehearsal
   2. chunking.
   3. repression.
   4. recognition
2. 7. When you have to make a long-distance call, dialing an unfamiliar area code plus a seven-digit number, you are likely to have trouble retaining the just-looked-up number. This best illustrates the limited capacity of ________ memory.
   1. short-term
   2. chunking.
   3. recognition
   4. priming.
3. 10. In an effort to recall his early life experiences, Aaron formed vivid mental images of the various rooms in his childhood home. Aaron was engaging in the process of:
   1. chunking.
   2. repression.
   3. priming.
   4. amygdala.
4. 13. Mrs. McBride can't consciously recall how frequently she criticizes her children because it would be too anxiety-arousing to do so. Sigmund Freud would have suggested that her poor memory illustrates:
   1. rehearsal
   2. priming.
   3. recognition
   4. repression.
5. 12. While taking the final exam in her American history class, Marie was surprised and frustrated by her momentary inability to remember the name of the first president of the United States. Her difficulty most clearly illustrates:
   1. repression.
   2. encoding failure.
   3. retrieval failure.
   4. retrieval cues.

5 True/False Questions

1. proactive interference. → 4. Although Jordan could not recall the exact words of a poem he had recently heard, he clearly remembered the meaning of the poem. This best illustrates the importance of:

   True        False

2. semantic encoding → 4. Ebbinghaus observed that it is much easier to learn meaningful material than to learn nonsense material. This best illustrates the advantage of:

   True        False

3. acoustic encoding. → 5. It is easier to remember "what sobriety conceals, alcohol reveals" than to recall "what sobriety conceals, alcohol unmasks." This best illustrates the value of:

   True        False

4. flashbulb → 8. Memories of emotional events are especially likely to be facilitated by activation of the:

   True        False

5. chunking. → 10. In an effort to recall his early life experiences, Aaron formed vivid mental images of the various rooms in his childhood home. Aaron was engaging in the process of:

   True        False