Which of the following is an example of source amnesia? a. Iva can't remember the details of a horrifying event because she has repressed them. b. Mary has entirely forgotten about an incident in grade school until her friend re minds her of the event. c. Michael can't remember this year's locker combination be cause he confuses it with last year's combination. d. Stephen misremembers a dream as something that really happened. e Anna, who is trying to lose weight, is unable to remember several of the between-meal snacks she had yesterday.

Which of the following is not one of Robert Sternberg's components of creativity? a. A venturesome personality. b. Imaginative thinking skills. c. A creative environment. d. Incubation. e. Intrinsic motivation.

You are more likely to remember happy memories when you are presently happy than when you are sad due to a. mood congruence. b. context effects. c. state-dependency. d. proactive interference. e. retroactive interference.

Which of the following is an accurate conclusion based on Hermann Ebbinghaus’ forgetting curve research? a. Most forgetting occurs early on and then levels off. b. We forget more rapidly as time passes. c. Forgetting is relatively constant over time. d. Forgetting is related to many factors, but time is not one of them. e. We are more likely to forget items in the middle of a list than at the beginning or the end.

According to Noam Chomsky, language acquisition occurs most especially because of a. exposure to language in early childhood. b. instruction in grammar. c. reinforcement for babbling and other early verbal behaviors. d. imitation and drill. e. linguistic determinism.

Which of the following illustrates the serial position effect? a. The only name Kensie remembers from the people she met at the party is Spencer, because she thought he was particularly good looking b. Kimia has trouble remembering information from the book 's first unit when she reviews for semester finals. c. It's easy for Brittney to remember that carbon's atomic number is 6 because her birthday is on December 6. d. Kyle was not able to remember the names of all of his new co-workers after one week on the job, but he could remember them after two weeks. e. Alp is unable to remember the middle of a list of vocabulary words as well as he remembers the first or last words on the list.

Hermann Ebbinghaus' forgetting curves shows that a. most forgetting occurs early on and then levels off. b. we forget more rapidly as time passes. c. forgetting is relatively constant over time. d. forgetting is related to many factors, but time is not one of them. e. we are more likely to forget items in the middle of a list than at the beginning or the end.

Long-term potentiation (LTP) is best described as follows: a. It's easier to recognize than to recall information. b. Constructed memories have the potential to be either accurate or inaccurate. c. These synaptic changes allow for more efficient transfer of information. d. Implicit memories are processed by the cerebellum instead of by the hippo campus. e. Information is transferred from working memory to long-term memory.

Which concept best explains why people often underestimate the amount of time it will take to complete a project? a. Belief perseverance. b. Framing. c. Intuition. d. The availability heuristic. e. Overconfidence.

By waiting until the last minute to study for an exam, you are using an unrecommended strategy called a. imagery. b. semantic memory. c. distributed practice. d. chunking. e. massed practice.

Which of the following statements concerning memory is true? a. Hypnosis, when used as a component of therapy, usually improves the accuracy of memory. b. One aspect of memory that is usually accurate is the c. Children's memories of abuse are more accurate than other childhood memories. d. Memories we are more certain of are more likely to be accurate. e. Memories are often a blend of correct and incorrect information.

Which of the following is most likely to lead to semantic encoding of a list of words? a. Thinking about how the words relate to your own life. b. Practicing the words for a single extended period. c. Breaking up the practice into several relatively short sessions. d. Noticing where in a sentence the words appear. e. Focusing on the numb er of vowels and consonants in the words.

Alice significantly underestimated how long it would take to write her term paper because of a. belief perseverance. b. framing. c. intuition. d. the availability heuristic. e. overconfidence.

What does Hermann Ebbinghaus’ forgetting curve show about the nature of storage decay? a. The rate of forgetting increases as time goes on. b. The rate of forgetting decreases as time goes on. c. The rate of forgetting does not change as time goes on. d. The rate of forgetting varies according to the motivation of the learner. e. The rate of forgetting varies according to the emotional state of the learner.