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PSY – MEMORY TEST MCQs

MEMORY TEST

1. The main difference
between auditory and visual sensory memory is that
(A) Visual memory
dominates auditory memory
(B) Visual sensory memory
lasts for a shorter period of time than auditory sensory memory
(C) Visual sensory memory
has a higher storage capacity than auditory sensory memory
(D) A phone number read
to an individual will be lost before a phone number that was glanced at for 15
seconds
(E)
If both visual and auditory stimuli are presented at the same time, the visual
stimulus is more likely to be transferred to the long-term memory than is the
auditory stimulus

2. The greater likelihood
of recalling information from memory while in the same or similar environment
in which the memory was originally encoded is an example of
(A) Retroactive
interference
(B) Chunking
(C) Elaborative rehearsal

(D) Encoding specificity
(E)
Procedural memory

Kaplan

3. When studying memory,
we are often concerned with the process of getting information into the system.
The process of getting information into short-term memory is called
(A) Retrieval
(B) Storage
(C) Encoding
(D) Sensation
(E)
Perception

4. According to Craik and
Tulving, the most important factor in memory performance is
(A) Retrieval cues
(B) Storage capacity
(C) Encoding context
(D) Sensation of
information
(E)
Perception of reality

5. The capacity of short
term memory is
(A)
2+or-3

(B) 5+or-1
(C) 3+or-2
(D) 9+or-2
(E)
7+or-2

6. The stage that
information first enters when it comes into the information processing system
is called
(A) Short-term memory
(B) Long-term memory
(C) Encoding stage
(D) Sensory memory
(E)
Working memory

7. A task that would lead
to deep levels of memory would be
(A) Identifying the
number of letters in a word
(B) Determining if two
words rhyme
(C) Deciding if someone’s
name a good fit for them
(D) Determining if a word
fits into a sentence
(E)
Identifying the number of syllables in a word

8. An example of explicit
memory would be
(A) Learning how to type
(B) Remembering your
locker combination
(C) Writing
(D) Reading
(E)
Driving

9. Spreading activation
is a process that has been used to demonstrate how information may be organized
in long-term memory. To demonstrate this, you might find that
(A) Bread makes you think
of butter
(B) Doctor makes you
think of eating
(C) You daydream
(D) You remember your
birthday
(E)
Dogs make you think about shoes

10. We recall information
better when we try to remember it in the same situation as when we learned it.
This concept is called
(A) Memory cue
(B) Encoding specificity
(C) Retrieval context
(D) Spreading activation
(E)
Learning context
11.
Suppose you want to remember all the states. You decide that you are going to
make up a song to help you. When you do this, you are using what psychologists
call a(n)
(A) Mnemonic
(B) Learning strategy
(C) Encoding strategy
(D) Retrieval strategy
(E)
Context cue

12. What evidence
suggests that memory is organized the way it is?
(A) We say the word nurse
faster after we see the word desk
(B) We say the word
doctor faster after we see the word nurse
(C) We say bread slower
after we see the word butter
(D) We say pillow slower
after we see the word couch
(E)
We say computer faster after we see the word couch

13. Mnemonics help us to
remember things more efficiently because they
(A) Provide a catchy tune

(B) Provide us with
instant, photographic memory of information
(C) Provide us with
organization for recall
(D) Provide us with
context
(E)
Provide us with a bigger short-term memory

14. The most common form
of a model of long-term memory is called
(A) Spreading activation
model
(B) Nodes and links
(C) ACT
(D) Episodic memory
(E)
Semantic memory

15. An example of a task
that might lead to poor memory would be
(A) Trying to fit a word
into a sentence
(B) Learning all the
names of the children in a class
(C) Associating words
with images that they represent
(D) Saying the number of
letters in a word
(E)
Trying to rhyme a word with a nonword

16. Short-term memory has
a capacity that is
(A) Small
(B) Large
(C) Unlimited
(D) 6+or-2 digits
(E)
Variable by individual
17. Long-term memory has
a capacity that is
(A) Small
(B) Large
(C) Unlimited
(D) 6+or-2 digits
(E)
Variable by individual

18. The first stage of
the information-processing model is
(A) Sensory memory
(B) Attention
(C) Long-term memory
(D) Short-term memory
(E)
Working memory

19. The final stage of
the information processing model is
(A) Sensory memory
(B) Attention
(C) Long-term memory
(D) Short-term memory
(E)
Working memory

20. Someone is currently
paying attention to something. In what stage of information processing is this
person?
(A) Sensory memory
(B) Attention
(C) Long-term memory
(D) Short-term memory
(E)
Explicit memory

21. The idea that
information is better recalled when the encoding context matches the retrieval
context is called the
(A) Encoding specificity

(B) Mnemonics
(C) Retrieval cue
(D) Cognitive cue
(E)
Spreading activation

22. A task that would
lead to deep levels of processing would be
(A) Trying to learn how
to spell nonwords
(B) Rhyming words
(C)
Counting letters
(D) Fitting words into a
sentence
(E)
Identifying what is a word and what is not

23. The three stages of
the Atkinson- Shiffrin process of memory are
(A) Iconic, echoic,
encoding
(B) Sensory, short term,
long term
(C) Shallow, medium, and
deep processing
(D) Semantic, episodic,
procedural
(E)
Cerebellum, temporal lobe, hippocampus

24. Which of the following
examples best illustrates episodic memory?
(A) Telling someone how to
tie a shoe
(B) Answering correctly
that the Battle of Hastings was in 1066
(C) Knowing that the word
for black in French is noir
(D) Remembering that a
clown was at your fifth birthday party
(E)
Long-term memory for the time tables learned in second grade

25. Doug wrote a grocery
list of ten items, leaves it at home. The list included in order: peas, corn,
squash, onions, apples, pears, bananas, flour, milk, and eggs. If the law of
primacy holds which of the following is Doug most likely to remember when he
gets to the store?
(A) Peas, pears, eggs
(B) Banana, flour, peas
(C) Apples, pears, bananas

(D) Flour, milk, eggs
(E)
Peas, corn, onions

26. In the example
above, which of the items would be recalled in Doug’s short-term memory
immediately after writing the list?
(A) Peas, corn, squash
(B) Peas, corn, onions
(C) Apples, pears,
bananas
(D) Flour, milk, eggs
(E)
Flour, corn, bananas

27.
According to the levels of processing theory of memory,
(A) We remember items
that are repeated again and again
(B) Maintenance rehearsal
will encode items into our long- term memory
(C) Deep processing
involves elaborative rehearsal, ensuring encoding into long-term memory
(D) Input, output, and
storage are the three levels
(E)
We can only hold 7 items in our short- term memory store before it is full

28. Which of the
following brain structures plays a key role in transferring information from
short-term memory to long- term memory?
(A) Hypothalamus
(B) Thalamus
(C) Hippocampus
(D) Frontal lobe
(E)
Parietal lobe

29.
Dai was drunk, so his girlfriend convinced him to get out of his car, and she
drove him home in her car. He could not remember where his car was parked when
he got up the next morning, but after drinking some liquor, Dai remembered
where he left his car. This phenomenon best illustrates
(A) The misinformation
effect
(B) Mood- congruent
memory
(C) The framing effect
(D) State dependent
memory
(E) Anterograde amnesia
30. Phonemes are:
(A) The rules of grammar
that dictate letter combinations in a language
(B) The smallest unit of
sound in a language
(C) The smallest unit of
meaning in a language
(D) Semantically the same
as morphemes
(E) About 100 different
words that are common to all languages
31. Which of the
following exemplifies retroactive interference
(A) After suffering a
blow to the head, Jean cannot form new memories
(B) Elle failed a Spanish
test because she studied for her Italian test after studying Spanish
(C) Lee cannot remember
an important date on the history exam
(D) Gene cannot remember
his new locker combination but remembers last year’s
(E)
Jodie remembers the first few items on her school supply list, but can’t
remember the rest of them

Fast
Track to a 5
32. The process of
acquiring information and entering it into memory is referred to as
(A) Storage
(B) Encoding
(C)
Retrieval
(D) Gathering
(E) Stimulating
33. Mary is able to
remember her mother’s birth day. Remembering that date is an examply of which
type of memory?
(A) Procedural memory
(B) Semantic memory
(C) Episodic memory
(D) Nondeclarative memory

(E) Flashbulb memory
34. Rosita was having a
hard time remembering the material she learned in class and that she knew was
doing to be on a test. As she walked into her classroom on the day of the test
she immediately started to remember the forgotten content. This sudden
occurrence could be explained by
(A) Recency effect
(B) Context-dependent
memory
(C) Primary effect
(D) Retrieval failure
(E) Semantic association
35. Steve can only
remember his old locker combination; he keeps forgetting his new combination.
Steve is experiencing
(A) Blocking interference

(B) Retroactive
interference
(C) Proactive
interference
(D) Repression
interference
(E) Suppression
interference
36. Ray hurt his head in
a car accident and has been experiencing problems recalling past events. Ray’s
doctors told his parents that Ray may be suffering from
(A) Anterograde amnesia
(B) Misinformation effect

(C) Incomplete schemas
(D) Retrieval failure
(E) Retrograde amnesia
37. What psychologist
believed that the forgetting of information will occur rapidly at first and
will then level off, with the remaining information being retained for a long
period of time?
(A) Herman Ebbinghaus
(B) Donald Hebb
(C) Karl Lashley
(D) Sigmund Freud
(E)
Elizabeth Loftus

Myer’s
Psychology
38. The “magical number
seven, plus or minus two” refers to the
(A)
Ideal number of times to rehearse information in the first encoding session

(B) Number of seconds
information stays in short- term memory without rehearsal
(C) Capacity of short-
term memory
(D) Number of seconds
information stays in echoic storage
(E) Number of years most
long term memories last.
39. Which of the
following describes long –term potentiation?
(A) When attempting to
retrieve information, it is easier to recognize than recall
(B) Constructed memories
have the potential to be either accurate or inaccurate
(C) Memories are formed
in the brain when a synapse changes to allow for more efficient transfer of
information
(D) Implicit memories are
processed by the cerebellum instead of by the hippocampus
(E) Information is
transferred from working memory to long-term memory
40. Which of the
following is an example of implicit memory?
(A) The ability to find a
hiddenWhere’s Waldo?figure with practice
(B) The ability to
retrieve from memory the details of an assignment that is due tomorrow
(C) The ability to
vividly recall significant events like the 9/11 attacks to New York City and
Washington, D.C.
(D) The ability to
remember the details of your last birthday party
(E) The ability of people
to recognize names and pictures of their classmates many years after they have
graduated
41. Which of the
following statements concerning memory is true?
(A) Hypnosis, when used
as a component of therapy, usually improves the accuracy of memory.
(B) One aspect of memory
that is usually accurate is the source of the remembered information
(C) Children’s memories
of abuse are always accurate
(D) Memories we are more
certain of are more likely to be accurate
(E) Memories are often a
blend of correct and incorrect information
42. The basketball
players could remember the main points of their coach’s halftime talk, but not
her exact words. This is because they encoded the information
(A) Semantically
(B) Acoustically
(C) Visually
(D) Shallowly
(E) Automatically
43. When someone provides
his phone number to another person, he usually pauses after the area code and
again after the next three numbers. This patter underscores the importance of
(A) Chunking
(B) The serial position
effect
(C) Semantic encoding
(D) Auditory encoding
(E) Automatic processing
44. Which of the
following us true regarding the role of the amygdala in memory?
(A)
The amygdala help process implicit memories
(B) The amygdala support
Freud’s ideas about memory because they allow us to repress memories of trauma.

(C) The amygdala produce
long-term potentiation in the brain
(D) The amygdala help
make sure we remember events that trigger strong emotional responses
(E) The amygdala are
active when the retrieval of a long-term memory is primed
45. Which of the
following illustrates the serial position effect?
(A) The only name Kensie
remembers from the people she met at the party is Spencer, because she thought
he was particularly good looking
(B) Kimia has trouble
remembering information from the book’s first unit when she reviews it for
semester finals
(C) It’s easy for
Brittney to remember that carbon’s atomic number is 6 because her birthday is
on December 6
(D) Kyle was not able to
remember the names of all his new co-workers after one week on the job, but he
could after two weeks
(E) Alp is unable to remember
the middle of a list of vocabulary words as well as he remembers the first or
last words on the list
46. Mnemonic devices areleast
likely to be dependent upon
(A) Imagery
(B) Acronyms
(C) Rhymes
(D) Stories
(E) Massed rehearsal
47. You are likely to
remember more psychology in your psychology classroom than in other
environments because of
(A) Mood congruence
(B) Context effects
(C) State dependency
(D) Proactive
interference
(E) Retroactive
interference
48. All of the following
kinds of information tend to be automatically processedexcept
(A) Space information
(B) Time information
(C) Frequency information

(D) New information
(E) Well-learned
information
49. Hermann Ebbinghaus is
considered a pioneer in memory research because he established the importance
of
(A) Semantic encoding
(B) Mnemonic devices
(C) Rehearsal
(D) Iconic storage
(E)
Long-term potentiation

50. Which of the
following is an example of source amnesia?
(A) Iva can’t remember
the details of a horrifying event because she has repressed them
(B) Mary has entirely
forgotten about an incident in grade school until her friend reminds her of the
event
(C) Michael can’t
remember this year’s locker combination because he confuses it with last year’s
combination
(D) Stephen misremembers
a dream as something that really happened
(E) Anna, who has been
trying to lose weight, is unable to remember several of the between-meal snacks
she had yesterday
51. Chemistry teachers almost
always present elements within the context of the periodic table. The periodic
table is useful because it is a(n)
(A) Example of chunking
(B) Hierarchy
(C) Mnemonic device
(D) Example of iconic
storage
(E) Massed rehearsal
strategy
52. Hermann Ebbinghaus’
forgetting curve indicates that
(A) Most forgetting
occurs early on and then levels off
(B) We forget more
rapidly as additional time passes
(C) Forgetting is
relatively constant over time
(D) Forgetting is related
to many factors, but time is not one of them’
(E)
We are more likely to forget items in the middle of a list than at the
beginning or the end

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