University:
Eastern Kentucky University
Course:
PSY 317 | Cognitive Psychology
Academic year:

2021
Views:

125

Pages:

2
Author:

Michael Haley

Chapter 6+7 Quiz Answers 1) Your book discusses the memory functioning of patient H.M. who underwent brain surgery to relieve severe epileptic seizures. H.M.’s case has been extremely informative to psychologists by demonstrating that Correct Answer: d. short-term memory can operate normally while long-term memory is impaired. 2) Why is classical conditioning considered a form of implicit memory? Correct Answer: d. Because it involves learning an association without being aware of the reasons behind it. 3) K.C., who was injured in a motorcycle accident, remembers facts like the difference between a strike and a spare in bowling, but he is unaware of experiencing things like hearing about the circumstances of his brother’s death, which occurred two years before the accident. His memory behavior suggest Correct Answer: b. intact semantic memory but defective episodic memory. 4) Examples from your book describing real experiences of how memories, even ones from a long time ago, can be stimulated by locations, songs, and smells highlight the importance of ___________ in long-term memory. Correct Answer: c. retrieval cues 5) The primacy effect (from the serial position curve experiment) is associated with ___________ memory. Correct Answer: a. long-term 6) As people get older, their memories of past experiences tend to have an emphasis on ________. Correct Answer: a. Facts 7) Memory performance is enhanced if the type of task at encoding matches the type of task at retrieval. This is called Correct Answer: c. transfer-appropriate processing. 8) Acquiring information and transforming it into long-term memory is Correct Answer: d. encoding. 9) Free recall of the stimulus list “apple, desk, shoe, sofa, plum, chair, cherry, coat, lamp, pants” will most likely yield which of these response patterns? Correct Answer: a. “apple, cherry, plum, shoe, coat, pants, lamp, chair” 10) 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? Correct Answer: c. Kim performs better because of consolidation.