Psychology Quiz

Catalina is a police officer and is talking to eyewitnesses to a serious car crash. As she speaks to them, she needs to be aware that _____ can impact the reporting the eyewitnesses give her.

• the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon

• the limitations of hierarchical structures

• how she words her questions about the crash

• retroactive interference from past accidents they have witnessed

As David is reading his textbook, he is also hearing the fan, smelling the sandwich that he made for lunch, and tasting the remnants of the sip of apple juice he just drank. All of these things are registered in _____ memory.

• sensory

• episodic

• echoic

• eidetic

In the case of Henry Molaison, also known as H.M., the patient suffered hippocampal damage. Which type of memory was most damaged in H.M.'s case?

• sensory

• explicit

• implicit

• procedural

Andrew is unable to recall whether Alexander Hamilton's head faces left or right on the $10 bill because he never really paid attention to it. In this scenario, Andrew's failure to recall the information can be explained by _____ failure.

• storage

• long-term memory

• encoding

• retrieval

According to the levels of processing framework, the optimal study technique is to:

• visualize pages from the text, and then "read" the material contained in them.

• read important passages in the text out loud.

The increased efficiency of neural communication over time that results in learning and forming memories is called:

• the memory trace.

• retroactive interference.

• the misinformation effect.

• long-term potentiation.

The recency effect refers to the fact that:

• the last items on a list are more likely than the middle items to be remembered.

• the most personally relevant items on a list are most likely to be remembered.

• rehearsed items are more likely than unrehearsed items to be remembered.

• the first several items on a list are more likely than the middle items to be remembered.

Cassandra is studying for her biology test. She has 8 hours before the test and spends the entire 8 hours studying. She used _____ practice.

• elaborative

• distributed

• massed

• maintenance

_____ is(are) the process(es) involved in the encoding, storage, and retrieval of information.

• Memory

• Mnemonics

• Transduction

• Potentiation

• Perception

Clarice presses the Ctrl and S keys on her keyboard to save a document. A file is then created on her computer's hard drive. Clarice's action of saving a document is similar to the memory activity of:

• retrieval.

• storage.

• encoding.

• transduction.