Memory Test - Multiple Choice

To gain accurate eyewitness testimony from children, interviewers must

• be sensitive to repressed memories.   
• provide details to the child before the interview
• use neutral words that children can understand.
• employ leading questions to prompt a response

The process of getting information into memory is called_______

• priming
• chunking
• encoding
• storing

Sherry easily remembers the telephone reservation number for Holiday Inns by using the mnemonic 1-800-HOLIDAY. She is using a memory aid known as

• the peg-word system.
• implicit memory.
• the serial position effect
• chunking

The human capacity for storing long-term memories is

• roughly equal to seven units of information
• enhanced through hypnosis
• essentially unlimited
• typically much greater in young children than in adults

The magical number seven, plus or minus two” refers to the storage capacity of ________ memory

• explicit   
• short-term   
• implicit   
• sensory

Iconic memory refers to

• visually encoded images in long-term memory
• the encoded meanings of words and events in short-term memory
• photographic, or picture-image, memory that lasts for only a few tenths of a secon

Repeating someone's name several times shortly after being introduced to that person is an effective strategy for

• chunking
• priming
• automatic processing
• rehearsal

Which of the following is an example of anterograde amnesia?

• Halle has no memories of the first 10 years of her life.

• William has lost his memory of the 2 weeks before he had surgery to remove a benign brain tumor.

• Louis can remember his past, but has not been able to form new long-term memories since experiencing a brain infection 4 years ago.

• Maddie can’t remember the details of when she was mugged downtown 6 months ago.

• Kalund struggles in school because he consistently misremembers what his teachers said in class.

Which of the following is an example of the primacy effect?

• Remembering the most important assignment you have to complete for school tomorrow

• Remembering the skills you learned early in life, such as walking

• Remembering the last thing your English teacher talked about in class yesterday, but nothing from earlier in the class period

• Remembering the names of the first two co-workers you met on the first day of your new job

• Remembering that your clocks must be moved ahead one hour when daylight savings time begins in the spring

6. What two parts of the brain are most involved in explicit memory?

• Frontal lobes and basal ganglia

• Amygdala and hippocampus

• Amygdala and cerebellum

• Cerebellum and basal ganglia

• Frontal lobes and hippocampus