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A) procedural
B) episodic
C) general
D) semantic
The distinction between semantic and procedural memory is the difference between
A) when it happened and where it happened.
B) what it was and how one did it.
C) how it happened and why it happened.
D) how it was done and what it was
The stages of information processing in memory are
A) semantic, episodic, and procedural.
B) iconic, echoic, and eidetic.
C) visual, acoustic, and semantic.
D) encoding, storage, and retrieval.
By mentally repeating a telephone number after looking it up for the first time, Jim was engaged in
A) encoding.
B) retrieval.
C) visual coding.
D) maintenance rehearsal.
The difference between rote learning and meaningful learning is the difference between
A) episodic memory and semantic memory.
B) maintenance rehearsal and elaborative rehearsal.
C) short-term memory and long-term memory.
D) sensory processing and semantic processing.
The correct order of events in memory processing is
A) retrieval, storage, and encoding.
B) storage, encoding, and retrieval.
C) encoding, retrieval, and storage.
D) encoding, storage, and retrieval.
Atkinson and Shiffrin proposed the three stages of memory referred to as
A) episodic, semantic, and implicit.
B) sensory, semantic, and implicit.
C) short-term, near-term, and long-term.
D) sensory, short-term, and long-term.
8. While Tanya is visiting the pet store she looks down an aisle and catches a glimpse of an animal that suddenly darts across the aisle. Which of the following enable the conscious registering of the animal’s movement?
A) saccadic eye movements
B) sensory memory
C) both saccadic eye movement and sensory memory
D) none of these
9. Humans experience a “stream of consciousness” rather than discrete choppy impressions because
A) saccadic eye movements create perceptions at a rate of approximately 20 per second, making the images seem continuous.
B) short-term memories overlap, which gives the impression of a single perception.
C) sensory memory briefly holds perceptions, making them seem connected.
D) perceptions in short-term memory are not stored, but rather are constantly replaced with new perceptions.
10. The turn of the century psychologist McDougall found that people presented a list of 12 letters, shown for a fraction of a second, could recall
A) up to 12 letters, as long as the letters were presented in a single row.
B) most of the letters, if they were presented in rows of no more than three letters each.
C) six or seven letters, as long as they were presented in a row.
D) four or five letters in a single fixation.
11. One will generally encode visual stimuli into auditory stimuli in the working memory because
A) the memory trace of auditory stimuli takes longer to fade.
B) the rehearsal of auditory stimuli requires more effort.
C) one cannot maintain the information as visual stimuli in the short-term memory.
D) all of these.
12. Your mother told to dress up for the interview because first impressions last forever. She was referring to
A) recency effects.
B) primacy effects.
C) short term memory.
D) interval memory.
13. Cody brought his mother by Tanya’s apartment to introduce them. Even though it was nearly lunch time, they found Tanya still in her pajamas and her apartment cluttered with beer cans and pizza boxes from the evening before. Several times since, Cody’s mother has been to Tanya’s apartment and found it tidy, but she still believes that Tanya is somewhat lazy because
A) she has an eidetic memory of Tanya’s apartment as it was the first time she was there.
B) the primacy effect is a powerful factor when forming impressions of other people.
C) her long-term memory interferes with her short-term memory.
D) the memory of her first meeting with Tanya can still be considered recent.
14. The ability to remember the letter of the alphabet or the words in the Pledge of Allegiance is due to
A) episodic memory.
B) sensory memory.
C) rote memory.
D) none of these.
15. The way in which we conceptualize our worlds, our beliefs, and our expectations are built around cognitive structures called
A) schemas.
B) images.
C) icons.
D) chunks.
16. Loftus and Palmer showed people a film of a car crash and then asked them to fill out questionnaires that included a question about how fast the cars were going at the time of the accident. The participants who reported the highest speeds had been asked to estimate how fast the cars were going when they ___ one another.
A) “touched”
B) “bumped into”
C) “smashed into”
D) “brushed”
17. Transferring information stored in short term memory to long term memory is, according to the text, is like: A) using the save command on a computer.
B) using an answer machine.
C) counting sheep.
D) using a Palm Pilot.