Unit 7 - Personality and Memory

Question 1

Which of the following proposed the unconscious consists of archetypes?

Accepted Answer

Jung

Question 2

How long does information last in Long Term Memory?

Accepted Answer

Relatively permanently

Question 3

What Def. Mech: A man who doesn’t want to be addicted to smoking eats tons of peanuts instead

Accepted Answer

Sublimation

Question 4

How do you pronounce the following psychologist's name: Horney

Accepted Answer

Horn-EYE

Question 5

The common phenomenon where you remember the first and last items on a list is called:

Accepted Answer

Serial-position effect

Question 6

Which of the following believed adults experience anxiety b/c of childhood helpless feelings

Accepted Answer

Horney

Question 7

What does Chunking mean?

Accepted Answer

Breaking a list into sections to help you remember something

Question 8

If I have a harmful, sad memory, what mode of forgetting should I employ to forget it?

Accepted Answer

Motivated forgetting

Question 9

What might you feel if you cannot retrieve information from LTM?

Accepted Answer

Tip of the tongue phenomenon

Question 10

Fill in the blank: Retrieval failure is when memories stored in __ are momentarily inaccessible

Accepted Answer

LTM

Question 11

What retrieval cues can be used to get information from LTM?

Accepted Answer

Elaborative Rehearsal, Recall emotions similar to the ones when the memory was made, Hierarchies, Organization

Question 12

What is the Barnum Effect?

Accepted Answer

Accept ambiguous, general statement

Question 13

Memory distortion from misleading post-event information is an example of what?

Accepted Answer

Misinformation Effect

Question 14

T or F: Proactive Interference is when old information interferes with new

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

Which of the following believes unconscious forces motivate conscious decisions

Accepted Answer

Freud

Question 16

Info from unreliable source (initially discounted) l8r gains credibility b/c source is forgoten

Accepted Answer

Sleeper Effect

Question 17

How long does stimulus last in Sensory Memory Storage?

Accepted Answer

0.5 second - 4 seconds

Question 18

What is the Fallacy of Positive Instances?

Accepted Answer

Remembering confirming evidence and ignoring disconfirming

Question 19

Def. Mech: Ur failing a class but tell ur friends/teachers its no problem and ull get it done

Accepted Answer

Denial

Question 20

What is the Self-Serving Bias?

Accepted Answer

Preferring flattering descriptions of ourselves

Question 21

How many things can you remember in your short term memory without additional strategies?

Accepted Answer

5-9

Question 22

Def. Mech: You get 49% in psych class and blame Dorini, ur dog, ur pen, and evry1else 4 failing

Accepted Answer

Projection

Question 23

Forgetting the true source of a memory is an example of what?

Accepted Answer

Source Amnesia

Question 24

T or F: Retroactive Interference is when old information interferes with new

Accepted Answer

False

Question 25

Def. Mech: Someone who is taking drugs heavily shames other people who take drugs

Accepted Answer

Reaction formation

Question 26

Which of the following accurately describes Decay Theory of Forgetting?

Accepted Answer

Memory degrades over time

Question 27

Which of the following believe people are innately good

Accepted Answer

Rogers, Maslow

Question 28

Which of the following psychologists believed that people experience an inferiority complex?

Accepted Answer

Adler

Question 29

Distributed practice is better than massed practice is an example of what?

Accepted Answer

Information Overload

Question 30

What is a flashbulb memory?

Accepted Answer

Vivid images associated with emotional events

Question 31

Who is going to ACE this test?

Accepted Answer

Me, Me, Me

Question 32

What does Encoding mean?

Accepted Answer

Processing information into the memory system

Unit 7 - Personality and Memory

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Unit 7 - Personality and Memory

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