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1Anterograde amnesia may be caused by:
- AFear
- BPain
- CAnger
- DJoy
- ENone of the above
2What is true about Korsakoff’s Syndrome?
- AAlcoholic Korsakoff syndrome results from damage to the hippocampus
- BAlcoholic-Korsakoff’s syndrome is followed by the Wernicke’s phase of the disorder.
- CVery severe alcoholism is sufficient to cause Alcoholic Korsakoff syndrome
- DAlcoholism must be combined with poor eating to create a thiamine deficiency to cause it.
- EKorsakoff syndrome results from damage to the fornix
3Suppose you ask someone with medial temporal amnesia to remember Phoenix.
- AFor about the next hour, she will be able to recall Phoenix.
- BShe will recall being asked to remember Phoenix with confidence in response to the cue: city.
- CFor about the next hour, she will recognize Phoenix, but will not recall it.
- DShe will recall being asked to remember Phoenix in response to the sound-alike cue: Fee.
- EA few minutes later, she may say Phoenix when asked to name cities.
4An individual who has suffered from severe Korsakoff's syndrome for the past 8 years can nevertheless learn
- Ato recognize his daily caretaker and surroundings
- Bto use visual imagery to remember word lists at normal levels
- Cto use cues to remember daily tasks
- Dto play a card game like bridge or rummey, well.
- Eto play new selections on the piano
5You ask a person with Alzheimer disease to remember the word leopard.
- AWhen asked to generate animals, he would not show an increased probability of saying leopard after a short filled delay.
- BHe would recognize and recall the word after a short filled delay.
- CHe would recognize but not recall the word after a short filled delay.
- DHe would recall being asked to remember leopard with confidence in response to the cue animal.
- EHe would recall being asked to remember leopard with confidence in response to the cue cat.
6Huntington's disease is the result of deterioration in part of the:
- AMemory cortex
- BLimbic system
- CBasal ganglia
- DTemporal cortex
- EThalamus
7What are symptoms of Huntington's disease?
- AImpaired motor skill learning
- BImpaired verbal fluency
- CImpaired recall
- DAll of the above
- ENone of the above
8Alzheimer's disease is associated with:
- AExcessive neural death as the result of aging
- BGeneralized oxygen deprivation to the brain
- CMany small strokes occuring over time throughout the cortex
- DA single large stroke blocking blood flow to the hyppocampus
- EPlaques and tangles forming in the cortex
9When a 3-month old infant is trained to kick to a test mobile and is briefly shown that test mobile 13 days later as a reminder:
- AThe infant kicks in response to the training mobile when it is shown 15 minutes after the reminder.
- BThe infant kicks in response to the training mobile when it is shown 1 hour after the reminder.
- CThe infant kicks in response to the training mobile when it is shown 72 hours after the reminder.
- DThe infant kicks in response to a novel mobile when it is shown 72 hours after the reminder.
- ENone of the above
10When immediate recognition of from one to six digits is tested. The reaction time (RT) is a linear function of:
- ADistracters but not targets
- BRecognition sets of more than six members but not for recognition sets of fewer than six members.
- CBoth targets and distracters
- DNeither targets nor distracters
- ETargets but not distracters
11When an observer is asked to respond whether a probe was a member of a just presented set of items, if she makes her response based on the perceived recency of the probe then
- AThe time for the response is not a linear function of the size of the study set
- BThe response is slower when the study set is smaller
- CWhen the probe is a target the time for the response is a function of the size of the study set
- DThe response is slower when the study-set items are unfamiliar
- EWhen the probe is a distracter the time for the response is a function of the size of the study set
12To measure recognition,
- Aonly hits need to be counted
- Bboth hits and misses must be counted
- Conly misses need to be counted
- Dboth correct rejections and false alarms must be counted
- Eboth hits and false alarms must be counted
13A change in criterion results in a change
- Aonly in hits
- Bin either hits or false alarms
- Cin both hits and false alarms
- Din perceived familiarity
- Eonly in false alarms
14What is intelligence?
- AA general problem solving ability
- BA general learning ability
- CA general reasoning ability
- DA general ability to perform cognitive tasks
- EThe ability to generate new ideas and imagine novel solutions to problems
15The results of cross-sectional studies indicate that past the third decade of life, which abilities decline?
- AProcessing speed
- BVerbal working memory
- CVisual working memory
- DLong-term verbal learning
- EAll of the above
16For the last 80 years, scores on intelligence tests
- AHave remained the same around the world for all ethnic groups and at all levels of performance
- BHave increased around the world for all ethnic groups and at all levels of performance
- CHave decreased for some ethnic groups and remained the same for others
- DHave increased for some ethnic groups and remained the same for others
- EHave increased for some ethnic groups and decreased for others
17The three components of the triarchic theory are
- ACrystallized and fluid intelligence
- BPerceptual, semantic, and motor intelligence
- CVerbal, quantitative, and emotional intelligence
- DAnalytical, practical, and creative intelligence
- EDeclarative, procedural, and emotional intelligence
18If it seems more likely that a college athlete will someday become a high school coach and teacher than just a high school teacher, this is because of:
- Athe representative heuristic
- Btheir prospective likelihoods
- Cthe availability heuristic
- Ddeductive reasoning
- Ethe probability of each occurence
19The amnesia producing drug Midazolam was given to participants learning a list of high and low frequency words. Compared with normal performance, later, the results of a recognition test were
- AThe difference in hits for low versus high frequency words was eliminated but the difference in false alarms remained the same
- BHits were reduced for high frequency words but increased for low frequency words
- CThe difference in false alarms for low versus high frequency words was eliminated but the difference in hits remained the same
- DHits and false alarms were reduced only for high frequency words
- EHits and false alarms were both reduced for both high and low frequency words
20High school students and college students were shown, one at a time, 100, or 200 pictures cut from magazines at the rate of one picture every 5 seconds. An hour later, each student was shown a sequence of 100 pairs of pictures, each including one study item and one distracter, and asked to select the study item.
- AThe group who studied only 100 pictures recognized the most study items an hour later regardless of the number of test pairs they were shown.
- BRecognition performance was less than 90% in all conditions.
- CThe high school students who studied only 100 pictures recognized the most study items.
- DThe high school students recognized the most study items an hour later regardless of the number of pictures studied.
- ERecognition performance was perfect or almost perfect in all conditions.
21When an eyewitness views a line-up
- AThe probability of a hit is increased if the perpetrator is in the line-up and the eyewitness is assured that the perpetrator is in the line up
- BThe probability of a false alarm is increased only if the perpetrator is not in the line-up and the eyewitness is assured that the perpetrator is in the line up
- CTh probability of a false alarm is decreased if the perpetrator is not in the line-up and the eyewitness is not hypnotized.
- DTe probability of a false alarm is increased regardless of whether the perpetrator is in the line-up and the eyewitness is assured that the perpetrator is in the line-up
22Five college students each sorted 100 pictures into those they recognized from grade school and those they did not. Who had the best recognition of former grade school class mates.
- ABetty, with 70% hits and 35% false alarms
- BDonna, with 70% hits and 45% correct rejections
- CEvan, with 70% hits and 50% false alarms
- DAnn, with 70% hits and 30% false alarms
- ECarl, with 70% hits and 40% false alarms
23In a distracter task in which word trigrams must be recalled, performance will be the best on trial five if
- AThe words are from the same category as on trials one through four.
- BIf there is a decline in performance on trials two, three, and four, because of spontaneous release from PI.
- CThe words are from a different category than on trials one through four
- DOn trials one through five, the words of the trigram are always unrelated to each other in meaning
- EThe words are from the same category as trial four, regardless of the category on trials one through three.
24In a distracter task, the word trigrams on trials 1-4 have been rat-squirrel-raccoon, wolf-bear-skunk, lion-tiger-zebra, cow-sheep-horse. What recall cue will increase recall of the fourth trigram?
- AMammal
- BForrest
- CFarm
- DJungle
- ESuburban
25Suppose that you are asked to report the names of all the different countries you can think of in one minute. You will report the most names during:
- AIt depends on your recall strategy.
- BThe second 20 seconds
- CAbout the same number of names will be recalled during each interval.
- DThe first 20 seconds
- EThe last 20 seconds
26Suppose a person was asked to generate instances of cities. An effective cue would be:
- Arepeating earlier responses
- Brepeating the word "city"
- Cthinking of secondary cues like the names of sports franchises
- Dall of the above
- Enone of the above
27I randomly divide the 50 states into two lists of 25 each. Let us call these list A and list B. One group of students is asked to recall all 50 states. The other group is shown the states on list A and asked to recall the remaining states.
- AThe students asked to recall all 50 states would recall more unfamiliar list B states but the students given list A would recall more familiar list B states.
- BBoth groups of students recall the same number of list B states.
- CThe students asked to recall all 50 states recall more states on list B.
- DThe students asked to recall all 50 states would recall more familiar list B states but the students given list A would recall more unfamiliar list B states.
- EThe students given list A recall more states on list B.
28Suppose that you were with a large group of people last Thursday night and once a day for the next five days you try to recall everyone you met that night.
- AThe level of recall will decline
- BThe level of recall will first decline and then increase
- CThe level of recall will stay the same
- DThe level of recall will increase
- EThe level of recall will first increase and then decline
29You received electric shock therapy (ECT) in January. Now no matter how hard you study, you are doing poorly on all your exams. You are suffering from a mild case of
- Adepression
- Bretrograde amnesia
- Canterograde amnesia
- Dthree of the other alternatives
- Enone of the above
30 What is true about Korsakoff’s Syndrome?
- AKorsakoff syndrome results from damage to the liver
- BWhen poor eating is combined with excessive alcohol consumption to create a thiamine deficiency, the Wericke's phase of Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome results
- CKorsakoff syndrome results from damage to the striatum
- DThe Korsakoff phase is followed by the Wernicke phase of the disorder
- EVery severe alcoholism is sufficient to cause Alcoholic Korsakoff syndrome
31 A patient with Korsakoff's disease would:
- Abe less likely than a normal individual to know what a chipmunk is
- Bmisidentify a picture of a squirrel as a chipmunk five minutes after hearing chipmunk
- Cbe as likely as a normal individual to recall chipmunk if it were heard five minutes earlier
- Dbe as likely as a normal individual to say chipmunk when asked to name animals if chipmunk was mentioned by someone else, earlier
- Ebe as likely as a normal individual to recognize chipmunk as having been said earlier after a five minute interval
32 You ask a person with Alzheimer's disease to remember the word diamond.
- AHe would recall being asked to remember diamond with confidence in response to the gem stone.
- BHe would recognize and recall diamond after a short filled delay.
- CHe would show an increased probability of saying baseball when asked to name sports.
- DHe would recognize but not recall the diamond after a short filled delay.
- EHe would not show an increased probability of saying diamond when asked to name gem stones.
33Huntington's disease is the result of damage in the:
- Abasal ganglia
- Bmidbrain
- Cmotor cortex
- Dthalamus
- EHuntington cortex
34 An individual with Huntington's disease is most impaired on:
- Alanguage
- Brecognition
- Crecall
- Dall of the above
- Enone of the above
35 Some of the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease results from damage to the:
- AAmygdala
- BTemporal Cortex
- CHypothalamus
- DThalamus
- EStriatum
36Spiro (1982) found that autobiographical memory
- Acannot be altered at the visual or emotional level by post-event verbal descriptions
- Bis a permanent record of perceptual experience
- Cmay be updated on the basis of new information presented immediately after an event.
- Dfor ordinary events is unlikely to be altered
- Econsists of records of discrete experiences that may be misplaced but remain unchanged.
37The creation of a false memory is a symptom of
- Afrontal lobe disease
- Bhysteria
- Cabuse
- Dnormal memory
- Eamnesia
38The effect of distributed study on training implies that you will remember what from your studies many years from now?
- AMaterial presented during your first year of college
- BMaterial presented in several courses
- CMaterial presented during your last semester of college
- DMaterial presented during your last month of college
- EMaterial presented during your first month of college
39Evidence from studies of flashbulb memories suggests that a unique event is remembered accurately for
- Aone month
- Bone year
- Cever
- Done week
- Ethree years
40A person who wakes up having forgotten the last week of his life but who otherwise retains his identity and long-term memory:
- Awas in a fugue state but is now suffering from retrograde amnesia
- Bwas suffering from retrograde amnesia but is now in a fugue state
- Cwas motivated by some occurrence to forget
- Dis suffering from organic retrograde amnesia
- Eis in a fugue state
41Confabulation in conjunction with amnesia is a consequence of damage to
- Ato both the temporal and occipital lobes
- BTo the frontal lobe only
- Cto both the frontal and parietal lobes
- Dto the temporal lobe only
- Eboth the temporal and frontal lobes
42 A traumatic event
- Ais encoded more accurately than a mundane event but not retained as long
- Bis encoded as accurately as a mundane event but not retained as long
- Cis encoded less accurately than a mundane even but retained longer
- Dis encoded as accurately as a mundane event but retained longer
- Eis encoded less accurately than a mundane event and not retained as long.
43Who will have poor recall of the first three years of life because of poor story-telling ability early in life?
- Aeveryone
- Bthere is childhood amnesia for at least the first three years of life
- Conly a Korsakoff patient
- Donly a normal individual
- Eonly an Alzheimer's patient
- Fonly an individual who suffered abuse during the first three years of life
44Spiro found that one way that post-event information affects memory is
- Ainconsistent information immediately after the event causes immediate rapid forgetting of the event
- Bconsistent information immediately after the event causes an immediate increase in the amount that may be retrieved
- Cconsistent information immediately after the event increases its retention interval
- Dcontradictory post-event information may cause confabulation
- Eeither consistent or contradictory post-event information may cause confabulation
45Assuming that you remain healthy, but never study it or anything related to it again, when will you forget all the content of your major?
- A40 years
- B30 years
- C20 years
- D10 years
- Enever
46 A target used as a reminder may take 72 hours to completely retrieve the action to it for an infant at the age of
- Afifteen months
- Bsix months
- Cthree months
- Dnine months
- Etwelve months
47When immediate recognition of from one to six letters is repeatedly tested the reaction time (RT) is a linear function of set size for responses to:
- Aboth targets and distracters after extensive practice
- Bboth targets and distracters initially but only to targets after extensive practice
- Cboth targets and distracters intially but only to distracters after extensive practice
- Dtargets initially and to distracters after extensive practice
- Edistracters initially and to targets after extensive practice
48When an observer is asked to respond whether a probe was a member of a just presented set of items, if she makes her response based on the perceived recency of the probe then
- Athe time for the response is not a linear function of the size of the study set for targets or distracters
- Bresponses are faster for distracters
- Cresponse time is a linear function of study-set size for distracters
- Dresponses are faster for targets
- Eresponse times are a linear function of study-set size for targets
49To measure recognition
- Aboth the number of distracters rejected as new and the number of distracters reported as old must be counted
- Bonly the number of targets not reported as old need be counted
- Cboth the number of targets reported as old and the number of targets not reported as old must be counted
- Donly the number of targets reported as old need be counted
- Eboth the number of targets reported as old and the number of distracters reported as old must be counted
50When both hits and false alarms change in response to an incentive, this is evidence for a shift in
- Asensitivity
- Bperceived familiarity
- Cboth perceived familiarity and perceived novelty
- Dcompliance
- Ecriterion
51The amnesia producing drug Midazolam was given to participants learning a list of words. Compared with normal performance, later, the results of a recognition test were
- AThe difference in false alarms for low versus high frequency words increased
- BHits and false alarms were reduced only for low frequency words
- CFalse alarms were reduced for high frequency words but increased for low frequency words
- DThe difference in hits for low versus high frequency words was eliminated
- EFalse alarms increased for both low and high frequency words
52Four different groups of students were shown, one at a time, 200, or 400 pictures cut from magazines that were either indoor or outdoor scenes at the rate of one picture every 5 seconds. An hour later, each student was shown a sequence of 100 pairs of pictures, each including one study item and one distracter, and asked to select the study item.
- AThe groups who studied only 200 pictures recognized the most study items an hour later regardless of whether they were shown indoor or outdoor scenes.
- BThe group tested on indoor scenes recognized the most study items an hour later regardless of the number of pictures studied.
- CRecognition performance was less than 90% in all conditions.
- DThe group who studied only 200 pictures and were tested on only 25 indoor scenes recognized the most study items.
- ERecognition performance was perfect or almost perfect in all conditions.
53Students studied a set of magazine ads containing models and were tested on either the same ads or other magazine ads containing the same models. They had to report whether the model appeared in the study set. Half of the models were well known and half had not appeared in print before. Which test condition or conditions produced the poorest recognition?
- ARecognition performance was perfect or almost perfect in all conditions.
- BBoth new and repeated pictures of the unfamiliar models.
- CRecognition performance was less than 90% in all conditions.
- DThe new study ads of both familiar and unfamiliar models.
- EThe new study ads of unfamiliar models.
54When an eyewitness views a line-up containing the perpetrator
- AThe probability of a hit is increased if the eyewitness is hypnotized but the probability of a false alarm remains the same.
- BThe probability of a false alarm is decreased if the eyewitness is hypnotized.
- CThe probability of a false alarm is decreased if the eyewitness is told that the perpetrator may not be in the line-up.
- DThe probability of a hit is increased if the eyewitness is assured that the perpetrator is in the line-up.
- EThe probability of a hit is increased if the eyewitness is given sodium amytal.
55 Alumni were given 24 photos consisting of 12 former classmates and 12 strangers. They were asked to select the classmates Who best discriminated classmates from strangers?
- ADebra, who selected 12 classmates and 0 strangers.
- BCheryl, who selected 6 classmates and 6 strangers
- CAlice, who selected 12 classmates and 12 strangers.
- DBelle, who selected 12 classmates and 6 strangers
- EEva, who selected 6 classmates and 0 strangers.
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