Psychology Module 6

Which principle describes when an unusual event, typically in the context of similar events, will be recalled and recognized better than uniform events?

• cue overload

• recoding

• misinformation

• distinctiveness

Levi met a new friend at school. The friend gave Levi her number and Levi is trying to remember the digits until he can enter her number into his cell phone. Levi is using what type of memory to remember the girl’s phone number?

• semantic memory

• episodic memory

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  collective memory

• working memory

During the lecture Wayne is busy texting on his cell phone, while kind of half paying attention to what the teacher is saying.   A few minutes after making a point the teacher gives an pop quiz on the material.  Wayne can’t retrieve the information the teacher gave in the lecture and does poorly on the test.  A likely factor in Wayne’s not being able to retrieve the information is:

• state dependent memory

• encoding elaboration

• encoding failure

When trying to remember a list of words, a person may choose a word to which they “hang” their memories on. This type of mnemonic device is called the ___________ __________ technique.

• retrieval language

• peg word

• word aid

• mnemonic word

When Carla was discussing the game with one of her friends, she was trying to remember a conversation she’d had.  Carla was trying to access her:

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  semantic memory

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  implicit memory

• episodic memory

• information processing memory

Andre grew up in New Orleans and was present when Hurricane Katrina occurred. His family, his community, and Andre share a ________ memory of this event.

• working

• collective

• short-term

• Semantic

“Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally” (PEMDAS) is a popular way for math teachers to help their students remember the order of operations (Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication and Division, Addition and Subtraction). This is an example of:

• mnemonic devices

• Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) effect

• misinformation effect

• testing effect

When Chloe was trying to learn about the stages of memory, she used a personal example to help her transform the information as it was given into something that made sense to her. This process is known as what?

• retrieval

• recoding

• distinctiveness

• Mnemonics

Some researcher say that ____________________ is really a set of skills including stress management and the ability to perceive moods.

• interpersonal intelligence

• emotional Intelligence

• street smarts

• practical Intelligence

Intelligence is:

• an individual’s cognitive capacity, including the ability to acquire, process, recall and apply information

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  how smart someone is

• the ability to navigate many different social and academic settings

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  a trait that cannot be measured