Memory Practice

Devi spent time developing a set of note cards for an upcoming test that used word associations based on what the words meant in relation to each other. Which of the following did Devi use with this study method?

• State-dependent memory

• Latent learning

• Effortful processing

• Procedural memory

A group of researchers conduct a study where they tell the participants that they will be doing a memory study, but the researchers were actually measuring levels of anxiety about doing well on a task. The group of researchers should be sure to do which of the following at the conclusion of this study?

• Use deception so the participants won't know the true nature of the study.

• Identify the confounding variables to improve the statistical accuracy of the study.

• Explain the purpose of a study before the study begins.

• Explain the true purpose of a study immediately after the study is complete.

Matt finds that when he is doing chores around his home, he can listen to an audiobook and still remember what the story was about. However, when his friends texts him about their plans for the weekend, he realizes that he has to rewind his audiobook because he forgot was the story was about. Which of the following accurately describes the level of processing Matt experiencing for doing chores around his home?

• Automatic

• Top-down

• Bottom-up

• Opponent

When 90-year-old Mrs. Glass socializes at her senior activity center, she gravitates toward activities that she can still perform well, which also demonstrates that her crystallized intelligence is functioning. Which of the following activities will most likely appeal to Mrs. Glass?

• A “name that song” game featuring songs from her childhood

• A trivia game featuring current movies

• A new video game in which aliens fly a spaceship

• A class teaching her how to use the latest computer technology

To remember a list of words, Jerry tries walking through his bedroom and making associations between words on the list and various areas he visits in his bedroom. Jerry is trying to improve his memory encoding by using which of the following memory concepts?

• distributed learning

• the method of loci

• maintenance retrieval

• echoic memory

Dr. Larson was interested in whether classical music helps students perform better on a test. Dr. Larson randomly assigned half of the study's participants to a group that listened to classical music while taking a test. The other half of the participants did not listen to music while taking a test. The research design Dr. Larson used is

• a case study

• an experiment

• naturalistic observation

• a correlational study

A psychology professor wants to investigate the study habits of students at her university. She cannot collect data from every student but hopes to use a subset of the students to draw accurate conclusions about the behavior of the student body. Which of the following features of research design will best address her goal?

• A double-blind procedure

• A single-blind procedure

• Random sampling

• Random assignment

When a list of words is learned in order, the words most likely to be forgotten are those that represent which of the following?

• at the beginning of the list

• at the end of the list

• in the middle of the list

• hardest to pronounce

Cassidy can only remember the titles of the first few books her teacher told her to get from the library. Which of the following concepts would best explain Cassidy’s experience?

• Zone of proximal development

• Insight learning

• The misinformation effect

• The primacy effect

Although she has not sustained any injuries, Riley cannot remember anything before the age of three. She is most likely experiencing

• retrograde amnesia

• anterograde amnesia

• infantile amnesia

• proactive interference