Which of the following is true regarding the role of the amygdala in memory? a. The amygdala help process implicit memories. b. The amygdala support Freud’s ideas about memory because they allow us to repress memories of trauma. c. The amygdala produce long-term potentiation in the brain. d. The amygdala help make sure we remember events that trigger strong emotional responses. e. The amygdala are active when the retrieval of a long-term memory is primed.

When someone provides his phone number to another person, he usually pauses after the area code and again after the next three numbers. This pattern underscores the importance of which memory principle? a. Chunking b. The serial position effect c. Semantic encoding d. Auditory encoding e. Recognition

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.

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.

The basketball players could remember the main points of their coach's halftime talk, but not her exact words. This is because they encoded the information a. semantically. b. iconically. c. implicitly. d. shallowly. e. automatically.

Which of the following is true regarding the role of the amygdala in memory? a. The amygdala help process implicit memories. b. The amygdala support Freud's ideas about memory because they allow us to repress memories of trauma. c. The amygdala produce long-term potentiation in the brain. d. The amygdala help make sure we remember events that trigger strong emotional responses. e. The amygdala are active when the retrieval of a long-term memory is primed.

Mnemonic devices are least likely to be dependent upon which of the following? a. Imagery. b. Acronyms. c. Rhymes. d. Chunking. e. Massed rehearsal.

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 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.

Which of the following is an example of an implicit memory? a. What time you had lunch yesterday. b. The details of an assignment that is due tomorrow. c. Vividly recalling significant events, such us the death of a famous person. d. The names of all U.S. state capitals. e. Recognizing names and pictures of your classmates many years after they have graduated.

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.

What does the “magical number seven, plus or minus two” refer to? a. The ideal number of times to rehearse information in the first encoding session. b. The number of seconds information stays in short-term memory without rehearsal. c. The capacity of short-term memory. d. The number of seconds information stays in echoic storage. e. The number of years most long-term memories last.

Benjamin Lee Whorf's linguistic determinism hypothesis relates to what aspect of the power of language? a. How thinking determines language b. How language determines thinking c. The role of the language acquisition device d. The importance of critical periods in language development e. The development of language m nonhuman animals.

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.