Chapter 7

If you learned a list of words underwater, where could you best recall those words?

• on dry land

• underwater

• on a boat

• in a library

Approximately how long does a specific sensory memory last?

• with encoding, nearly forever

• no more than a few seconds

• close to a minute

• with rehearsal, several minutes

Which of the following would likely NOT be forgotten by a person who has amnesia?

• the name of a closed down clothing store

• the actions for buttoning a sweater

• driving directions to a shopping mall

• a relative's shirt and pant sizes

What purpose do the parentheses and hyphens serve in a telephone number?

• they set serial position

• they provide iconic coding

• they identify schemas

• they promote chunking

What is the maximum number of digits a security code should have so that somebody could remember the code without writing it down?

• 5

• 7

• 9

• 11

According to Ebbinghaus's forgetting curve, how much information stored through maintenance rehearsal is forgotten after 20 minutes?

• 10 percent

• 20 percent

• 40 percent

• 60 percent

Which of the following can be considered the most personal?

• episodic memory

• semantic memory

• explicit memory

• declarative memory

Melinda has been diagnosed with anterograde amnesia. Which of the following will Melinda likely be unable to remember?

• the content of her college art history course

• the make and model of the first car she owned

• the name of the restaurant she ate at last month

• the movie she sees next week with her husband

Based on the key principles of each perspective, under which of the following is a memory most likely to be permanently forgotten?

• decay theory

• retroactive interference

• proactive interference

• cue-dependent forgetting