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Psychology Unit 3 MEMORY
Psychology Unit 3 MEMORY
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The memory system that stores information about personal events
and
general knowledge is the
Declarative memory
Procedural memory
Episodic memory
Semantic memory
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Which of the following statements about short-term memory (STM) is most accurate?
STM holds all sensory info until it is encoded into LTM
STM holds all incoming information for around 30 minutes
STM only holds information transferred from sensory memory
STM holds ltd amount encoded info while it's being processed
3
As a child, Enid learned how to knit, but she has not knitted for 50 years. when a charity o...
Echoic memory
Procedural memory
Short-term memory
Episodic memory
4
Madeline found it much easier to recall her opening address in court when she rehearsed it f...
Context-dependent cues
The use of narrative chaining
Elaborative rehearsal
State-dependent cues
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Garry is driving home from work when his wife phones and asks him to get a list of 10 items ...
The last five items
The middle four items
Items 1-3 and 4-7
Items 1 and 2, and 8,9 and 10
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Farah was asked to learn a list of 20 Biological terms. She was only able to recall the first..
The lack of consolidation
The forgetting curve
The lack of context cues
The serial position effect
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Sensory memory
Preserves info in its original form for less than a few secs
Is known as working memory
Ultd capacity -can hold info over lengthy periods of time
ltd capacity, maintain unrehearsed info up to approx 20 secs
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Brain area involved in enabling intense, emotionally significant experiences 2b well remembered
Corpus callosum
Amygdala
Somatosensory cortex
Visual cortex
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When people have difficulty recalling an event, they often use memories to which they do hav...
Implicit
Reconstructive
Explicit
Recreative
10
When Troy met his girlfriend's family for the first time, he wanted to remember their names. To
An acrostic
Maintenance rehearsal
Chunking
Elaborative rehearsal
11
Which of the following determines what information moves from sensory memory to STM?
Serial position effect
Paying Attention to it
Consolidation
Rehearsal
12
For state dependent cues, the more closely that retrieval cue resemble _____ in which ........
Your physiological state
Your internal environment
The external environment
Your psychological state
13
How long can information be held in visual sensory memory?
Approximately 20-30 seconds
About 0.2-0.4 seconds
Indefinitely provided the information is attended to
Approximately 2-4 seconds
14
The primacy effect of the serial position effect suggests that
Short-term memory has a limited duration
Material that is rehearsed can stay in STM indefinitely
Long term memory has a limited duration
Material that is rehearsed can pass into long-term memory
15
Leo, recently sustained damage to his hippocampus. Leo is likely to be unable to remember
Current events from the newspaper
The route to his parent’s house
How to tie his shoelaces
How to ride a bike.
16
When you listen to a lecture, the info is held in ____ memory until you write it in your notes
Iconic
Trace
Long-term
Short-term
17
Free recall involves __________ memories, while fear conditioning involves ___________ memories
Implicit; implicit
Implicit; explicit
Explicit; implicit
Explicit; explicit
18
The term used to describe the tendency to recall the items at the beginning of a list ........
Proactive interference
The primacy effect
The recency effect
Retroactive interference
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The hippocampus is required for the consolidation of
The emotional aspect of memories
short-term memories
Procedural memories
Long-term explicit memories
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Long term memory has ________ duration and _________ capacity
Limited; unlimited
Limited; limited
Unlimited; unlimited
Unlimited; limited
21
Which of the following is an accurate description of elaborative rehearsal?
Elab rehea relies making meaningful conn with info 2b learnt
Elaborativ rehearsal involves repetition of info sub-vocally
Elaborative rehearsal involves repetition of information
Elaborative rehearsal involves rote learning
22
Which stage of the Atkinson-Shiffrin model of memory is characterised by limited storage.....
Long-term memory
Echoic memory
Short-term memory
Sensory register
23
Dr Baressi is a very experienced medical practitioner. He works in the emergency department....
Episodic memories
Episodic and procedural memories
Semantic memories
Procedural memories
24
When Peter was in high school, he spent every weekend working in a bakery. Thirty years later..
An acronym
Context-dependent cues
An acrostic
State-dependent cues
25
Which part of memory holds the knowledge that ‘dogs bark’, ‘6+4 =10’ and ‘there are 365 days ..
Procedural memory
Explicit long term memory
Implicit memory
Explicit short term memory
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Michael is completing a French listening comprehension exercise. According to the informatio...
Encoding, storage and consolidation
Encoding, storage and retrieval
Attention, storage and retrieval
Attention, encoding and storage
