Chapter 5 Practice Test Questions

Study Guide

The following are practice multiple-choice test questions on some of the chapter content. Click the Show Answer button below each question to see the answer. If you guessed on a question or incorrectly answered a question, restudy the relevant section of the chapter.

Question 5.27

1.

Which of the following types of memory holds sensory input until we can attend to and recognize it?

  1. short-term memory

  2. sensory memory

  3. semantic memory

  4. episodic memory

b; sensory memory

Question 5.28

2.

Our short-term memory capacity is ____ ± 2 chunks.

  1. 3

  2. 5

  3. 7

  4. 9

c; 7

Question 5.29

3.

Which of the following types of memory has the shortest duration?

  1. sensory memory

  2. short-term memory

  3. semantic memory

  4. episodic memory

a; sensory memory

Question 5.30

4.

Procedural memories are ____ memories and thus are probably processed in the ____.

  1. explicit; hippocampus

  2. explicit; cerebellum

  3. implicit; hippocampus

  4. implicit; cerebellum

d; implicit; cerebellum

Question 5.31

5.

Which of the following leads to the best long-term memory?

  1. maintenance rehearsal

  2. elaborative rehearsal

  3. physical processing

  4. acoustic processing

b; elaborative rehearsal

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Question 5.32

6.

The primacy and recency effects in free recall demonstrate that we have the greatest difficulty recalling the words ____ of a list.

  1. at the beginning

  2. at the end

  3. in the middle

  4. at the beginning and end

c; in the middle

Question 5.33

7.

Which of the following is not a mnemonic aid?

  1. method of loci

  2. peg-word system

  3. temporal integration procedure

  4. first-letter technique

c; temporal integration procedure

Question 5.34

8.

An essay test measures ____, and a multiple-choice test measures ____.

  1. recall; recall

  2. recall; recognition

  3. recognition; recall

  4. recognition; recognition

b; recall; recognition

Question 5.35

9.

Which of the following theories of forgetting argues that the forgotten information was in long-term memory but is no longer available?

  1. encoding failure theory

  2. storage decay theory

  3. interference theory

  4. cue-dependent theory

b; storage decay theory

Question 5.36

10.

Piaget’s false memory of a kidnapping attempt when he was a child was the result of ____.

  1. infantile amnesia

  2. source misattribution

  3. encoding failure

  4. storage decay

b; source misattribution

Question 5.37

11.

After learning the phone number for Five Star Pizza, Bob cannot remember the phone number he learned last week for the Donut Connection. After living in Los Angeles for three years, Jim is unable to remember his way around his hometown in which he had lived the previous 10 years prior to moving to Los Angeles. Bob is experiencing the effects of ____ interference, and Jim is experiencing the effects of ____ interference.

  1. proactive; proactive

  2. proactive; retroactive

  3. retroactive; proactive

  4. retroactive; retroactive

d; retroactive; retroactive

Question 5.38

12.

Per the levels-of-processing theory, which of the following questions about the word “depressed” would best prepare you to correctly remember tomorrow that you had seen the word in this practice test question today?

  1. How well does the word describe you?

  2. Does the word consist of 10 letters?

  3. Is the word typed in capital letters?

  4. Does the word rhyme with obsessed?

a; How well does the word describe you?

Question 5.39

13.

The forgetting curve for long-term memory in Ebbinghaus’s relearning studies with nonsense syllables indicates that ____.

  1. the greatest amount of forgetting occurs rather quickly and then it levels off

  2. little forgetting occurs very quickly and the greatest amount occurs later, after a lengthy period of memory storage

  3. forgetting occurs at a uniform rate after learning

  4. little forgetting ever occurs

a; the greatest amount of forgetting occurs rather quickly and then it levels off

Question 5.40

14.

In the Loftus and Palmer experiment, participants were shown a film of a traffic accident and then later tested for their memory of it. The finding that memory differed based upon the specific words used in the test questions illustrated ____.

  1. state-dependent memory

  2. source misattribution

  3. the self-reference effect

  4. the misinformation effect

d; the misinformation effect

Question 5.41

15.

The results for the experiment in which word lists were studied either on land or underwater and then recalled either on land or underwater provide evidence for ____.

  1. source misattribution

  2. encoding specificity

  3. proactive interference

  4. retroactive interference

b; encoding specificity