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PSC 1 - Chapter 7

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  1. 1During a robbery investigation, Officer Zhang interviewed an eyewitness about the amount of damage done by thieves to the store. Zhang asked the eyewitness to estimate the cost of repairing the "demolished" store. The eyewitness likely will
    1. Areport the damage accurately because Zhang asked her to estimate it.
    2. Breport the damage accurately because most eyewitness reports are accurate.
    3. Cover-estimate the cost of the damage because Zhang has emphasized the amount of destruction.
    4. Dunder-estimate the cost of the damage because Zhang is an authority figure.
  2. 2Jorge's wife telephoned him and asked him to buy milk, bacon, mushrooms, apples, diet soda, butter, cereal, bananas, and cookies. Jorge did not write down the list and he ended up only remembering milk and bacon, which demonstrates
    1. Athe primacy effect
    2. Bthe recency effect
    3. Cblocking
    4. Damnesia
  3. 3Your friend starts discussing a stray dog that she encountered. According to spreading activation models of memory
    1. Aall words associated with "dog" will be equally activated.
    2. Bwords that are highly associated with "dog" will be activated first.
    3. Call words associated with "pets" will be equally activated.
    4. Dwords that are highly associated with "animal" will be activated first.
  4. 4Nora and Miles are medical students studying for an exam. Nora makes flash cards to memorize new terms and repeatedly reads them to herself. Miles links new terms to the ones he already knows based on their meanings. Nora is using __________, and Miles is using __________ to learn the new terms.
    1. Amaintenance rehearsal; elaborative rehearsal
    2. Bsemantic memory; episodic memory
    3. Celaborative rehearsal; maintenance rehearsal
    4. Depisodic memory; semantic memory
  5. 5Tom is a waiter at a local restaurant. When customers place orders, Tom has to remember all of the entrees and use his memory to arrange them in order based on how long each one takes to cook while walking back to the kitchen to relay the order to the chef. To be able to reorganize the orders in his mind, Tom is most likely relying on his __________ memory.
    1. Along-term
    2. Bworking/short-term
    3. Cvisual
    4. Dsensory
  6. 6Wendy's husband is watching football on the TV when she asks, "Will you pick up the dry cleaning tomorrow?" When he doesn't reply after a second, she says to him, "Did you hear me?" Her husband replies, "Yes, I heard you. I will pick up the dry cleaning tomorrow." The next day, her husband returns home without the dry cleaning and claims to have no memory that Wendy asked him to get it.

    According to the information processing model, Wendy's husband has most likely processed her question in his __________ memory. But the reason he didn't pick up the dry-cleaning is because the information ultimately did not end up in his __________ memory.
    1. Aexplicit; implicit
    2. Bsensory; short-term
    3. Cimplicit; explicit
    4. Dsensory; long-term
  7. 7Jonah tells his friend about his run-in with a wild moose while camping. When he tells his Mom about it the next day, he remembers the story a little differently. The memory probably changed slightly when it was
    1. Aconsolidated
    2. Breconsolidated
    3. Crehearsal
    4. Dencoded
  8. 8Stuart and Laura are studying for an upcoming midterm exam. Whereas Stuart reads over and reviews his notes every day, Laura takes as many practice tests on the material as she can. According to your text, which person is likely to have a better mastery of the material?
    1. Aneither technique is effective in the mastery of new information
    2. Bboth will likely perform equally well
    3. CLaura
    4. DStuart
  9. 9Pete taught Introductory Psychology last term and is teaching it again this term. When he runs into one of his students from last term, he can only remember names of his students from this term. Pete's inability to remember his students' names from the last term is most likely due to
    1. Aretroactive interference
    2. Bretroactive amnesia
    3. Cproactive amnesia
    4. Dproactive interference
  10. 10Which of the following best characterizes patient H.M.’s memory abilities after his surgery?
    1. AHe could form new semantic memories but could not form episodic memory.
    2. BHe could form new episodic memories but could not form semantic memory.
    3. CHe could form new declarative memories but could not form procedural memory.
    4. DHe could form new procedural memories but could not form declarative memory.

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