Memory Exam UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers
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Memory Exam UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Parker, Cahill, and McGaugh (2006) termed patient AJ's condition - CORRECT
ANSWER- Hyperthmestic
The rate of forgetting exhibited by Ebbinghaus could best be described as which of the
following? - CORRECT ANSWER- Logarithmic
Jost's L...
Memory Exam UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Parker, Cahill, and McGaugh (2006) termed patient AJ's condition - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Hyperthmestic
The rate of forgetting exhibited by Ebbinghaus could best be described as which of the
following? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Logarithmic
Jost's Law states that if two memories are equally strong at a given time, which memory will
tend to be more durable and forgotten less rapidly? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The older
Synaptic consolidation is generally considered to last on the order of - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Hours to days
What was the critical factor related to forgetting in the Baddeley and Hitch (1977) study of
rugby players' memories? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Number of intervening games
When the target information is distorted by subsequent information, this is known as which
form of interference? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Retroactive
What term did Anderson et al. (1994) coin to refer to the predisposition for selective retrieval
of some exemplars from long-term memory to impair later recall of related items? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Retrieval-induced forgetting
How does interference arise according to associative blocking? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
The cue fails to retrieve the target due to persistently evoking a stronger competitor
Mather and Carstensen (2005) argue that as people advance in age, their focus on maintaining
a sense of which of the following tends to increase, along with their emotion regulation skill?
- CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Well-being
In psychoanalytic theory, which defence mechanism is believed to unconsciously banish
memories that may cause pain and conflict? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Repression
, How frequently are participants instructed whether to remember or forget the stmuli they had
just seen in the LIST- method directed forgetting procedure? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
After half the stimulus set has been presented
Bjork and Bjork(2003) found that their directed forgetting participants had forgotten from
where they knew a tested name, misattributing the name's familiarity to: - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Fame
Anderson et al.(2004) notably observed DECREASED activation in which structure when
participants suppressed retrieval? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Hippocampus
Benoit and Anderson(2012) compared which two strategies of controlling unwanted
memories to see whether they engaged different mechanisms? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Thought substitution and direct suppression
Goernert and Larson(1994) reported a release of directed forgetting after they - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Supplied subset of the items participants studied on the first list
Sahakyan and Kelley(2002) observed that ______ the mental context eradicated the effects of
instructions to forget. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Reinstating
What is the main difficulty related to studying autobiographical memory? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- A lack of control over the learning environment
The directive function of autobiographical memories refers to - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Using past experiences to solve problems
What limitation did Brewer (1988) attempt to avoid by sampling at random times -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Biased selection
In brewer's 1988 study, 26% of recorded events - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- were correctly
recalled
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