Unit 5 Review

A basic assumption underlying short-term memory is that it is

• limited in capacity

• unlimited in capacity

• not under conscious control

• resistant to decay

In the morning, Jorge watched a cartoon about a sarcastic rabbit. Later, in his psychology class, he viewed the image above and readily identified it as a rabbit instead of a duck. Which of the following best explains this phenomenon?

• Habituation

• Priming

• Stimulus generalization

• Discrimination

When Amy was seven years of age, she had a babysitter from France. During this time Amy learned to speak a little French. Years later, when Amy got to college, she signed up for a beginning French class. Amy learned the material in her French class much more quickly than her classmates did. Amy’s rapid learning was most likely due to:

• episodic memory

• spontaneous recovery

• fluid intelligence

• implicit memory

Chuck recalls the day last summer when he fell off his bicycle and scraped his knee. This is an example of

• iconic memory

• procedural memory

• episodic memory

• short-term memory

Hermann Ebbinghaus’ research would most likely predict that:

• it is possible to implant false memories about being lost in a shopping mall in participants’ minds

• children will learn best when they are challenged by a task that they cannot do on their own but can do with guidance

• a student who only studies the night before a test will very rapidly forget most of the information studied after the test is over

• rats will learn to navigate mazes even if they are not given a reward

Wolfgang Köhler considered a chimpanzee’s sudden solving of a problem evidence of

• instinct

• modeling

• insight

• spontaneous recovery

A sudden inability to remember how to tie a certain kind of knot indicates a deficit in which kind of memory?

• Declarative

• Semantic

• Episodic

• Procedural

An individual’s ability to remember the day he or she first swam the length of a swimming pool is most clearly an example of which of the following kinds of memory?

• Semantic

• Procedural

• Priming

• Episodic

Hillary glances at a graph and then turns her head away less than a second later. When she tries to immediately remember what she saw, which of the following types of memory does Hillary use?

• Iconic

• Procedural

• Implicit

• Echoic

Memories of well-learned skills, such as riding a bicycle, are classified as

• iconic

• semantic

• procedural

• declarative