Chapter-7 Human Memory

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Short-term memory is best described as:-

Memory of how to perform an activity, such as riding a bike.

Memory of facts and general knowledge.

Memory that can hold only a small amount of information.

Memory of specific events.

Which of the following statements about automatic processing or effortful processing is true?

Effortful processing does not require conscious awareness.

Effortful processing makes other processing more difficult.

Automatic processing requires little mental effort.

Automatic processing does not improve with practice.

A teacher asks Yvonne to go to another classroom to get a student whom Yvonne has never met. As she walks, she repeats the student's name to herself over and over to help her remember. Yvonne is boosting her memory by using

Elaborative rehearsal

Distributed learning

Maintenance rehearsal

A mnemonic device

David was studying some historical dates for a test. He noticed that the day and month of one of the dates was the same as his own birthday

Method of loci

Self-reference

Retroactive interference

Overlearning

Jeanette is curious to see how many numbers she can hold in her mind at once. She asks her friend to test her on lists of random digits to see how many she can remember. Based on what is known about the average limits of short-term memory capacity, what is the most likely number of digits Jeanette will be able to remember?

The fact that Lori finds herself thinking about dogs and other pets after seeing a cat is evidence that human memory is organized into

An association network

A hierarchy

A mental set

A schema

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

Distributed learning

The method of loci

Maintenance retrieval

Echoic memory

Which of the following illustrates the primacy effect?

Jason remembers the last two digits of his doctor's phone number but not any other digits.

Susam left his grocery list at home and can remember only the first two items on the list

Frederick thinks people are paying attention to him when they actually are not.

Paul gets a reward every time he gets on the bus for school on time.

If Jess has a type of amnesia that effects the formation of explicit memories but not implicit ones, which of the following will she be most likely to remember?

The date of her last basketball lesson

The name of her basketball coach

The location of the gym.

The arm position to throw the ball.

Which of the following is most likely to be a false memory?

A young child's memory of a day at the beach

A high school student's memory of the prom

A person's memory of going to a restaurant after college graduation

A job applicant's memory of the clothes the applicant wore to an interview

Consolidation can be described as the process of

Long-term memories being formed from short-term memories

The body trying to keep itself in a set of state of being

New information becoming integrated with previous knowledge

Determining where information is coming from

Which of the following describes the concept of schema?

Gustav uses the method of loci to study all of his classes

Marsha thinks the waiter asked her whether she wanted water even though he did not, because she thinks waiters ask patrons whether they want water

Tracy grouped the information she needed to learn into categories that made sense to her.

Kevin thinks David is not motivated because he showed up late for a meeting, but actually a traffic jam made David late.

A mental set is

An established way of thinking about or perceiving something

A link between two memories in which recall of one prompt recall of the other

A strategy in which items are grouped to make them easier to remember

A type of learning that happens suddenly during a critical phase of development

An example of divergent thinking is

Regan brainstorming as many uses of a toothpick as possible in a two-minute period

Sharon picking her favorite restaurant from a list

Martin drawing a picture of a bicycle from memory

Eleni studying for a spelling test by rehearsing the words and their spellings multiple times

John went to the beach for vacation shortly after having watched a documentary film about shark attacks. Overestimating the possibility of encountering a shark in the water, he decided to spend the day sunbathing and reading instead of going for a swim. John's reasoning can be explained through

The availability heuristic

The gambler's fallacy

Source monitoring

Conformation bias

For a person planning to hold a party outside, an example of the predictable-world bias would be

Hoping the weather will be nice this year

Beleiving that nice weather is due this year because it rained a lot the last three years

Believing the party will be fun outside regardless of the weather

Remembering only past parties with good weather, not those with bad weather

Patrick believes his basketball coach doesn't like him and subsequently focuses on all the times the coach criticizes his playing and ignores all the time the coach praises his performance. Patrick's behavior is best explained by the process of

The Flynn effect

Confirmation bias

Retroactive interference

Groupthink

Keisha performs well in his geometry course in school, and her classmates often ask her for help with understanding word problems and writing formal proofs. Her friends describe her as very rational and analytical. According to Howard Gardener, which type of intelligence is Keisha most likely to possess?

Logical-mathematical

Bodily-kinesthethic

Interpersonal

Intrapersonal

Which of the following examples is most consistent with the theory that executive functioning provides the basis for general intelligence?

Geoff is able to easily remember a long list of instructions after hearing them only once and also scores higher than average on intelligence tests.

Reilly began walking earlier than most children and also scores higher than average on intelligence tests

Amir is good at understanding other peoples' emotions and also scores higher than average on intelligence tests

Jake can read very quickly and also scores higher than average on intelligence tests.

Arthur is helping his friend set up her new phone. Arthur has never used this type of phone, but he uses his knowledge of setting up his own phone to help figure out how to use the new phone. According to Robert Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence, Arthur is using which type of intelligence?

Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence

Practical intelligence

Creative intelligence

General intelligence

Mary has an IQ score within one standard deviation above the mean score. This indicates her score was?

High enough for Mary to be considered a genius

Higher than at least 75percent of people who took the test

Within the middle 68 percent of people who took the test

Lower than exactly 7percent of people who took the test

Professor Gustafson is developing a new intelligence test and wants to ensure the test has good inter-rater reliability. Which of the following strategies will most directly help him achieve this goal?

Allowing only a small subset of highly trained researchers to grade the test, because this ensures standardization of test conditions

Allowing only a small subset of highly trained researchers to grade the test, because this ensures validity, which is crucial to establish reliability

Allowing only trainned researchers to grade the test, as they will have a good understanding of the proper way to score certain things and will be more likely to agree

Ensuring that a representative sample of participants take the test, as this is the best way to establish reliability

Vandana, a 12-month-old infant, is listening to her father talking to her and suddenly repeats a word that he just said. Her father praises her and gives her a cookie. After she gets the cookie, she repeats the word again. Vandana's behavior can be best explained by using the theory of

Universal grammar

Linguistic determinism

Behaviorism

Attachment

Sometimes people who speak different languages are in a community together and must develop a way of communicating. Similarly, their offspring must also find a way to communicate. The main difference between the speech of the first generation and the speech of the second generation is

The speech of the first generation tends to include a larger vocabulary

The speech of the second generation tends to include a larger vocabulary

The speech of the first generation tends to have more complex grammar rules

The speech of the second generation tends to have more complex grammar rules

Rodrigo’s three-year-old sister says the phrase “We go to the store” instead of “We went to the store.” According to Noam Chomsky, what is the best explanation for her behavior?

Her parents have not presented her with the appropriate corrective feedback to teach her not to use the incorrect form.

She is overregularizing her use of the past tense.

She has heard other children using the incorrect form and has learned that it is correct.

She has not yet entered the concrete operational stage of cognition, in which she will be able to learn the correct form of the word.

A researcher wanted to test the psychometric properties of a new intelligence test for children. She administered the test twice, two months apart, to children in a fourth-grade classroom. On the second administration, she noticed that the children who performed well were not the same children who performed well on the first administration and that there appeared to be no relationship between student performance on the first and second administration of the test. Based on this scenario, the psychological construct missing from this intelligence test

Test-retest reliability, because the researcher is administering the same test twice

Test-retest reliability, because the researcher is administering equivalent forms of the test twice

Split-half reliability, because the researcher is administering the same test twice

Split-half reliability, because the researcher is administering equivalent forms of the same test twice

Which of the following scenarios is best explained by long-term potentiation?

Erik and Harry don’t like each other when they are first assigned to the same a room during a class trip, but after spending a great deal of time together, they begin to like each other more.

When Sruthi first enters a dark room after coming in from outside, she can’t see anything, but her eyes adjust after a few minutes.

At first, Benjamin needs to drink only a small amount of a caffeinated beverage to feel its effects, but after drinking it regularly for a while, he needs more to feel the same effects.

The first time Colleen tries to remember Leo’s name it takes her a long time, but over time she remembers it more quickly.

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