Chapter 7 Review
PSYCH 100

1. Episodic and semantic memory are subsystems within

sensory memory
short-term memory
declarative memory
nondeclarative memory

2. When you are trying to remember information and you have NOT been given any retrieval cues to help you, you must rely on

recall
recognition
relearning
encoding

3. According to Elizabeth Loftus, bringing back a memory is most like

watching a videotape of the past
reading a book about the past
writing a book about the past from fragmented notes
imagining what the past was like without ever having lived it

4. When Lisa twirled a flashlight in a dark room, which memory system caused her briefly to perceive a trail of light behind the actual location of the light?

short-term
sensory
long-term
intermediate

5. Jeff learns his psychology terms for an exam and then studies for a biology exam. The extent to which the psychology terms affect his ability to remember the biology terms is called

retroactive interference
serial position effect
recency effect
proactive interference

6. The mechanism underlying motivated forgetting is

serial position effect
eidetic memory
interference
repression

7. Bartlett's studies of the American Indian tale “The War of the Ghosts” with British undergraduates suggested that:

social and cultural contexts have a definite impact on memory
they could remember canoes, but little else
Europeans had better memories than did the Native Indians
Native Indians had far better recall than did Europeans

8. Deciding whether memories come from external sources (our experiences) or from internal sources (our imagination) represent what is called:

source monitoring
reality monitoring
schemas
retrieval inhibition

9. Participants in a study first watched a film of two cars colliding. Then, the experimenters asked them to estimate how fast the cars had been moving. The responses depended

on the age of the subjects
on the amount of sleep deprivation the subjects were operating under
on how the questions were worded
on camera's perspective on the accident scene

10. A mental structure that organizes incoming information is called a(n)

engram
strategy
schema
prototype

Name:

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