MEMORY
3RD EDITION
CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS MEMORY?
1 HOW DID CLIVE WEARING ACQUIRE BRAIN DAMAGE?
(A) BIKE ACCIDENT
(B) CAR ACCIDENT
(C) ENCEPHALITIS
(D) SYPHILIS
(E) EPILEPSY
ANSWER: (C) ENCEPHALITIS
2 WHICH ELEMENT OF CLIVE WEARING’S MEMORY REMAINED RELATIVELY INTACT?
(A) EPISODIC MEMORY FORMATION
(B) DELAYED RECALL
(C) MEMORY FOR MUSIC
(D) ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY ENCODING
(E) DECLARATIVE MEMORY FORMATION
ANSWER: (C) MEMORY FOR MUSIC
3 WHO DEVISED THE CONCEPT OF COGNITIVE MAPS IN RATS?
(A) EDWARD TOLMAN
(B) ENDEL TULVING
(C) HERMAN EBBINGHAUS
(D) CLARK HULL
(E) ALAN BADDELEY
ANSWER: (A) EDWARD TOLMAN
4 FROM THE HIGHEST TO LOWEST, WHAT IS THE CORRECT ORDER OF THESE LEVELS
ACCORDING TO REDUCTIONISM?
(A) SOCIAL BEHAVIOR, BIOCHEMISTRY, COGNITION, PHYSICS, PHYSIOLOGY
, (B) COGNITION, SOCIAL BEHAVIOR, PHYSIOLOGY, BIOCHEMISTRY, PHYSICS
(C) SOCIAL BEHAVIOR, COGNITION, BIOCHEMISTRY, PHYSIOLOGY, PHYSICS
(D) PHYSIOLOGY, BIOCHEMISTRY, COGNITION, SOCIAL BEHAVIOR, PHYSICS
(E) SOCIAL BEHAVIOR, COGNITION, PHYSIOLOGY, BIOCHEMISTRY, PHYSICS
ANSWER: (E) SOCIAL BEHAVIOR, COGNITION, PHYSIOLOGY, BIOCHEMISTRY, PHYSICS
5 INTROSPECTION REFERS TO THE CAPACITY TO DO WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING?
(A) SELECT A RANDOM SAMPLE
(B) RECORD FROM AN INDIVIDUAL NEURON
(C) REFLECT AND REPORT ON ONGOING THOUGHTS
(D) REPRESS UNWANTED THOUGHTS
(E) FORMULATE AN ANIMAL MODEL OF MEMORY
ANSWER: (C) REFLECT AND REPORT ON ONGOING THOUGHTS
6 THE ATTEMPT TO SYSTEMATICALLY MAP THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PHYSICAL STIMULI
ONTO MENTAL PHENOMENA LIKE SENSATION AND PERCEPTION IS MOST CHARACTERISTIC
OF WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING DISCIPLINES?
(A) PSYCHOPHYSICS
(B) PSYCHOSIS
(C) PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
(D) PSYCHOANALYSIS
(E) PSYCHOSOMATICS
ANSWER: (A) PSYCHOPHYSICS
7 WHO IS CREDITED AS INVENTING WHAT HAS COME TO BE KNOWN AS THE NONSENSE
SYLLABLE TO STUDY MEMORY EXPERIMENTALLY?
(A) HULL
(B) FREUD
(C) PIAGET
(D) EBBINGHAUS
(E) TOLMAN
ANSWER: (D) EBBINGHAUS
8 WHICH BRANCH OF PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPED IN 1930S GERMANY, LARGELY APPLIED
IDEAS FROM THE STUDY OF PERCEPTION TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN MEMORY?
, (A) FREUDIANISM
(B) BEHAVIORISM
(C) GESTALT
(D) CONNECTIONISM
(E) PHRENOLOGY
ANSWER: (C) GESTALT
9 BARTLETT (1932) IS FAMOUS FOR UTILIZING WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING TO STUDY
MEMORY AND THE REMEMBERER’S “EFFORT AFTER MEANING?”
(A) NONSENSE SYLLABLES
(B) FOLK TALES
(C) VISUAL ILLUSIONS
(D) VISUAL MASKS
(E) PLACEBOS
ANSWER: (B) FOLK TALES
10 WHO OF THE FOLLOWING IS MOST ASSOCIATED WITH EARLY INFORMATION-PROCESSING
ACCOUNTS OF MEMORY?
(A) BARTLETT
(B) BROADBENT
(C) TULVING
(D) HULL
(E) TOLMAN
ANSWER: (B) BROADBENT
11 WHAT TERM REFERS TO BARTLETT’S IDEA OF HOW OUR MEMORIES ARE STRUCTURED?
(A) SCHEMA
(B) MODEL
(C) NODE
(D) STORE
(E) MAP
ANSWER: (A) SCHEMA
12 COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY IS LARGELY BASED ON WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING METAPHORS?
, (A) ALLOCENTRIC
(B) EGOCENTRIC
(C) COMPUTER
(D) BLANK SLATE
(E) BLACK BOX
ANSWER: (C) COMPUTER
13 THE MODAL MODE OF MEMORY ASSUMED:
(A) LONG-TERM MEMORIES CANNOT BE RETRIEVED INTO THE SHORT-TERM STORE
(B) A SINGLE MEMORY SYSTEM
(C) ONLY SIMPLE STIMULUS-RESPONSE ASSOCIATIONS
(D) MEMORY CANNOT BE STUDIED EMPIRICALLY
(E) SENSORY SYSTEMS PROVIDE THE INTERFACE BETWEEN PERCEPTION AND MEMORY
ANSWER: (E) SENSORY SYSTEMS PROVIDE THE INTERFACE BETWEEN PERCEPTION AND
MEMORY
14 ICONIC MEMORY IS A KEY ELEMENT OF WHICH MEMORY SYSTEM?
(A) LONG-TERM
(B) SHORT-TERM
(C) EPISODIC
(D) SENSORY
(E) SEMANTIC
ANSWER: (D) SENSORY
15 ECHOIC MEMORY REFERS TO WHICH SENSORY MODALITY?
(A) SMELL
(B) VISION
(C) TASTE
(D) HEARING
(E) EXTRASENSORY
ANSWER: (D) HEARING
