Cognitive Psychology Quiz #5

1) What does encoding specificity refer to?

a. That we learn more than just the physical stimulus when we learn a word.

b. That we can remember things better using a mnemonic strategy.

c. That the context does NOT matter when learning a word.

d. None of the above.

2) If a person were to learn a list underwater, in which situation would they remember it the best?

a. On land

b. Underwater

c. On a boat

d. A person cannot learn a list underwater.

3) Why do we get the phenomena in question # 2?

a. People generally learn on land, so they recall better on land.

b. Retrieval cues are stronger in this case when they are tested under water (state dependent learning).

c. Because being on a boat gives the best synthesis of environmental cues.

d. Because people always learn on land, they are unable to learn underwater.

4) Which of the following is revealed by indirect testing, such as by measuring priming effects?

a. Explicit memory

b. Source memory

c. Encoding specificity

d. Implicit memory

5) Which of the following types of memory often includes source memory?

a. Implicit memory

b. Muscle memory

c. Explicit memory

d. None of the above include source memory

6) Which of the following types of memory could be interpreted as more of a skill (such as efficiency of processing) than a "memory"?

a. Explicit memory

b. Digit Span

c. Short term memory

d. Implicit memory

7) Which of the following is an example of the "Illusion of truth"?

a. A person reads in a tabloid that a senator is a crook, then later on their friend says the senator is a crook and they tend to agree, even though the senator is honest.

b. A person is told that the average Swiss person eats 25 pounds of cheese a year and then are asked to rate a series of statements on their truth, one of which was the one about cheese. The person then rates the story about the cheese more highly than any other stories.

c. A subject is told that everything that Dave says is a lie. Dave tells the subject that a mouse can run 4 miles per hour. Later on, the person is asked to rate statements as either true or false. The subject rates the one about the mouse as true.

d. All of the above are examples of the "Illusion of truth".

8)What is a memory about how to do something?

a. Declarative memory

b. Source memory

c. Procedural memory

d. None of the above

9)Which of the following are causes of anterograde amnesia?

a. Hippocampus damage

b. Korsakoff's syndrome (B1, thiamine deficiency)

c. A and B

d. excessive sunlight

e. none of the above

10) Is there any evidence to show that Anterograde amnesics have some form of implicit memory?

a. yes

b . no

11) Which of the following is evidence for implicit memory in anterograde amnesics (AA)?

a. If you shake hands with an AA and have a pin in your hand to prick them with, they will be less likely to shake your hand in the future.

b. There is no evidence, because they cannot form any memories.

c. When exposed to brief melodies and later asked to rate several melodies based on their preferences (including the previously heard ones), they generally preferred the ones they had previously been exposed to, even though they didn't remember having heard them.

d. A and C

12) Where is memory located in the brain?

a. Hippocampus

b. Frontal lobe

c. Memory is spread throughout different parts of the brain

d. cerebellum

13) Which is the usual path of information from acquisition to retrieval and later use under the Information-Processing View?

a. Detection, Recognition, Working memory, Long-term memory, Retrieval, Working memory

b. Working memory, detection, Long-term memory, Retrieval

c. Recognition, Detection, Working Memory, Long-term memory, Retrieval, Working memory

d. Detection, Recognition, Long-term memory, Retrieval, Working memory

Answers:

1)A 2)B 3)B 4)D 5)C 6)D 7)D 8)C 9)C 10)A 11)D 12)C 13)A