Problem 1
David was thinking about baseball statistics when his mother told him to make sure to call his Uncle Jim for his birthday. Two hours later, David's mom asked him if he had called his uncle yet and he said he did not even remember her asking him to. Which memory process is probably where David's memory failure occurred? a. Encoding b. Consolidation c. Storage d. Retrieval
Problem 1
When we actively try to recall information, especially words, from long-term memory, we use the a. occipital cortex. b. prefrontal cortex. c. parietal cortex. d. parahippocampal gyrus.
Problem 1
Sofia is fluent in Spanish and is now trying to learn French. Much of it comes easy to her, yet she keeps forgetting some French words that are similar to yet different from their Spanish equivalent. The kind of forgetting that Sofia is suffering from is a. amnesia. b. retroactive interference. c. proactive interference. d. blocking.
Problem 1
Suppose you met a person who could remember things that happened well before she had surgery but who was now incapable of forming new long-term memories. What part of her brain was most likely affected by the surgery? a. hypothalamus b. hippocampus c. insula d. amygdala
Problem 2
Rehearsal makes memories stick. So does a. drunkenness. b. storage. c. emotion. d. fatigue.
Problem 2
The brief traces of a touch or a smell left by the firing of neurons in the brain are examples of a. perceptual memory. b. long-term potentiation. c. implicit memory. d. sensory memory.
Problem 2
Jennifer studied for a week for her psychology exam. She took careful notes, made note cards, reviewed them many times, and even had her roommate test her. She even developed visual images and mnemonics for help her learn the four steps in forming memories. But when she read a question on the exam about this material, she got confused and got it wrong. Which memory process is probably where Jennifer's memory failure occurred? a. Encoding b. Consolidation c. Storage d. Retrieval
Problem 2
Jon was in an automobile accident. It has now been a month since his accident, and he has no recollection of the 2 days after the accident. He suffers from a. anterograde amnesia. b. retrograde amnesia. c. posttraumatic amnesia. d. selective amnesia.
Problem 3
The predictable pattern of forgetting that shows that we forget more and more over time but that the rate of forgetting declines with time is known as ______. a. absent-mindedness b. forgetting curve c. repression d. anterograde amnesia
Problem 3
Roberto and Stephen both studied a total of about 10 hours for a Chem exam. They both used many of the same study strategies such as making in-depth notes, reading the chapter multiple times, and rehearsing the material many times. Roberto, however, spread his 10 hours of studying over 1 week with 8 hours of sleep each night. Stephen crammed his 10 hours in from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. the night and morning of the exam and then got 3 hours of sleep for his 9 a.m. exam. Who is most likely to do best on the exam and why? a. Roberto; Consolidation b. Stephen; Consolidation c. Roberto; Retrieval d. Stephen; Retrieval
