Human Memory Test Questions
Course Introduction
This course explores the fundamental principles and processes underlying human memory, examining how we encode, store, and retrieve information across various contexts. Students will investigate different memory systems, such as sensory, short-term, and long-term memory, and consider factors that influence memory performance, including attention, emotion, and context. Through analysis of classic studies and current research, the course delves into topics like forgetting, mnemonic strategies, eyewitness memory, memory disorders, and the neural bases of memory. Practical applications and implications for education, therapy, and everyday life are also discussed.
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Cognitive Psychology Connecting Mind Research and Everyday Experience 5th Edition by E. Bruce
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
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Q1) Which memory is used for physical actions?
A) Long-term memory
B) Procedural memory
C) Episodic memory
D) Semantic memory
Answer: B
Q2) The branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind is called A) cognitive psychology.
B) introspection.
C) behaviorism.
D) memory consolidation.
Answer: A
Q3) A technique in which trained participants described their experiences and thought processes in response to stimuli is known as A) structuralism.
B) analytic introspection.
C) sensations.
D) cognitive psychology.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Cognitive Neuroscience
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Q1) Josiah is trying to speak to his wife, but his speech is very slow and labored, often with jumbled sentence structure.
Josiah may have damage to which area of the brain?
A) Broca's area
B) Parahippocampal place area (PPA)
C) Extrastriate body area (EBA)
D) Wernicke's area
Answer: A
Q2) The study of the physiological basis of cognition is known as A) cognitive psychology.
B) neuroscience.
C) cognitive neuroscience.
D) neuropsychology.
Answer: C
Q3) Groups of interconnected neurons are referred to as A) myelin sheaths.
B) potentiated somas.
C) neural circuits.
D) spreading activations.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Perception
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Q1) The theory of unconscious inference includes the
A) oblique effect.
B) likelihood principle.
C) principle of componential recovery.
D) principle of speech segmentation.
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following would have the most semantic regularities?
A) a forest
B) a skyscraper
C) a shopping mall
D) a toll booth
Answer: C
Q3) Which of the following adjectives has the LEAST connection to perception?
A) interactive
B) conscious
C) supportive
D) complex
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Attention
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Q1) How does perceptual load differ from processing capacity?
A) Perceptual load is static and processing capacity is variable.
B) Perceptual load is genetic and processing capacity is learned.
C) Perceptual load is sensory and processing capacity is cognitive.
D) Perceptual load is individual and processing capacity is universal.
Q2) Anne Treisman's attenuator analyzes the incoming message in terms of all of the following EXCEPT
A) how sequences of words create meaningful phrases.
B) how the message groups into syllables or words.
C) whether the message is fast or slow.
D) whether the perceptual load is low or high.
Q3) According to Treisman's attenuation model, which of the following would you expect to have the highest threshold for most people?
A) The word "money"
B) Their child's first name
C) The word "home"
D) The word "platypus"
Q4) Explain the difference between inattentional blindness and change blindness. Give an example of each to support your thinking.
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Chapter 5: Short-Term and Working Memory
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Q1) What is the relationship between digit span and chunking? Give an example of how both concepts apply in a single memory task.
Q2) One function of ___________ is to pull information out of long-term memory.
A) sensory memory
B) the phonological loop
C) articulatory suppression
D) the central executive
Q3) Information remains in sensory memory for A) seconds or a fraction of a second.
B) 15-30 seconds.
C) one to three minutes.
D) as long as it is rehearsed.
Q4) Imagine you are driving to a friend's new house. In your mind, you say the address repeatedly until you arrive. To remember the address, you used a(n)___________process in short-term memory.
A) control
B) automatic
C) coding
D) iconic
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Chapter 6: Long-Term Memory: Structure
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Q1) Memory enhancement due to repetition priming is a result of the test stimulus being
A) the same as or resembling the priming stimulus.
B) different from the priming stimulus.
C) similar in meaning to the priming stimulus.
D) different in meaning from the priming stimulus.
Q2) For years, propaganda has been deployed by political leaders and systems in a variety of contexts. From a cognitive psychology perspective, explain why such efforts are often effective.
Q3) In one or two sentences, write an autobiographical memory of something you recently experienced. Then identify the episodic and semantic components of that memory.
Q4) Work with brain-injured patients reveals that ___________ memory does not depend on conscious memory.
A) declarative and non-declarative
B) personal semantic and remote
C) semantic and episodic
D) implicit and procedural
Q5) Explain how research on brain-damaged individuals informs our understanding of priming in implicit memory.
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Chapter 7: Long-Term Memory: Encoding, Retrieval, and Consolidation
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Q1) Research into reconsolidation of memories in people who have PTSD has focused on the ________ aspects of memory.
A) episodic
B) visual
C) emotional
D) systemic
Q2) Lakeisha and Kim have been studying for two hours for their chemistry exam. Both girls are tired of studying. Lakeisha decides to watch a two-hour movie on DVD, while Kim decides to go to bed. What would you predict about their performance on the chemistry exam?
A) Lakeisha performs better because of consolidation.
B) Kim performs better because of consolidation.
C) Lakeisha performs better because of encoding specificity.
D) Kim performs better because of encoding specificity.
Q3) According to memory research, studying is most effective if study sessions are A) short but all on a single day.
B) long and all on a single day.
C) short and across several days.
D) long and across several days.
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Chapter 8: Everyday Memory and Memory Errors
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Q1) Your friend has been sick for several days, so you go over to her home to make her some chicken soup. Searching for a spoon, you first reach in a top drawer beside the dishwasher. Then, you turn to the big cupboard beside the stove to search for a pan. In your search, you have relied on a kitchen
A) source memory.
B) script.
C) schema.
D) scan technique.
Q2) The misinformation effect occurs when a person's memory for an event is modified by misleading information presented
A) before the event.
B) during the event.
C) after the event.
D) all of the above
Q3) Which of the following is key to the illusory truth effect?
A) Culture
B) Source
C) Repetition
D) Stress
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Chapter 9: Conceptual Knowledge
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Q1) Which of the following theories on conceptual representation combines both sensory and motor experiences?
A) The sensory-functional hypothesis
B) The embodied approach
C) The multiple-factor approach
D) The hub and spoke model
Q2) Learning in the connectionist network is represented by adjustments to network A) connection weights.
B) nodes.
C) hidden units.
D) output units.
Q3) In evaluating retrieval rates for category information for a concept, Collins and Quillian's semantic network approach would predict the slowest reaction times for which of the following statements using a sentence verification technique?
A) A field sparrow is a bird.
B) A field sparrow is a sparrow.
C) A field sparrow is an animal.
D) A field sparrow is a field sparrow.
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Chapter 10: Visual Imagery
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Q1) Shepard and Metzler's "image rotation" experiment was so influential and important to the study of cognition because it demonstrated
A) how easy mental rotation is for humans.
B) that humans cannot successfully rotate mental images beyond 90 degrees.
C) that humans can only perform mental rotation on "real-world" objects.
D) imagery and perception may share the same mechanisms.
Q2) The key difference between depictive representation and propositional representation is based on which of the following?
A) Longevity
B) Neural response
C) Validity
D) Content
Q3) As described in your text, the pegword technique relies on all of the following EXCEPT A) associations.
B) propositions.
C) rhymes.
D) visualizations.
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Chapter 11: Language
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Q1) Which of the following terms best describes the concept of entrainment?
A) Isolation
B) Similarity
C) Cooperation
D) Understanding
Q2) Ron is an avid reader. He has a large vocabulary because every time he comes across a word he doesn't know, he looks it up in the dictionary. Ron encounters "wanderlust" in a novel, reaches for the dictionary, and finds out this word means "desire to travel." The process of looking up unfamiliar words increases Ron's
A) lexicon.
B) parser.
C) syntactical capacity.
D) mental set.
Q3) Which of the following is NOT a factor in prosody?
A) Rhythm
B) Semantics
C) Sound
D) Structure
Q4) Explain how language and music are both similar and different.
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Chapter 12: Problem Solving
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Q1) Subgoals serve a key role in which of the following?
A) Creative cognition
B) Means-end analysis
C) Functional fixedness
D) Volitional daydreaming
Q2) Which of the following is NOT commonly associated with people who are considered highly creative?
A) Daydreaming
B) Analysis
C) Mindfulness
D) Solitude
Q3) In the Tower of Hanoi problem, the _________________ state involves having three discs stacked on the left peg, with the middle and right pegs empty.
A) transitory
B) goal
C) intermediate
D) initial
Q4) Compare and contrast functional fixedness and mental set. Give examples of each in the context of problem solving to support your thinking.
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Chapter 13: Judgment, Decisions, and Reasoning
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Q1) Sandeep is a generally anxious person. His anxiety sometimes gets in the way when he tries to make decisions. The anxiety Sandeep feels is an example of an __________ emotion.
A) expected
B) immediate
C) integral
D) incidental
Q2) There are two gumball machines outside the local grocery store, one large machine and one small machine. Both machines have only yellow and orange gumballs, and each machine contains 50 percent of each color. For each coin, the large gumball machine dispenses 15 gumballs, while the small machine dispenses 5. Tim is a young genius whose interests include probability and sound decision-making. His "probability project of the day" is to get a greater percentage of either of the colors, but not an equal amount of each color. Given this, and presuming Tim has only one coin,
A) he should use his coin in the large machine.
B) he should use his coin in the small machine.
C) it doesn't make a difference which machine he uses.
D) he should wait for other people to use the machines and see what they get.
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