MCQs of Psychology - Memory – Multiple Choice Question

Question 1 of 20

1. Question

Which behaviours provide evidence for memory in humans?

Recognition
Familarity
Unconscious influences
Recall
All of the above

Question 2 of 20

2. Question

Cued recall involves which one of the following?

Bringing information to mind in responses to non-specific cues.
Bringing information to mind in responses to specific cues.
identifying information provided at test time as having been encountered previously.
Responding differently to previously encountered information than to new information.

Question 3 of 20

3. Question

Priming measures how people:

Bring information to mind in response to non-specific cues.
Bring information to mind in response to specific cues.
Identify information provide at test time as having been encountered previously.
Respond differently to previously encountered information than to new information.

Question 4 of 20

4. Question

How would a constructive approach to memory explain the differences in two people’s reported memories for the same shared event?

People have different memory capabilities and so make different errors.
People have different verbal abilities and vocabularies and so would report their memory differently, even though their actual memory were the same.
Peoples have different motivations and so will not all equally hard; they will report exactly what occurred, but they will leave different parts out.
People have different past experiences, values and goals and so will experience different events, even when the external event in the same.

Question 5 of 20

5. Question

Suppose the two groups of people are asked to learn 20 words in a list and then are tested after a 30-minute delay. The words are procedure for the two groups are identical except for the following difference. One group listens to the words being read aloud slowly; they recall 10 words when tested. The other group listens to the same words being read aloud at the same rate, but they also write down each words as it is read aloud. This group recalls 15 words when tested. What does this experiment tell us about memory?

Nothing, because people don't try to learn word lists in real life.
That writing words as you hear them does not help memory as much as listening to them.
That writing words as you hear them improves memory for them, at least for a short while.
That writing words as you hear them enables you to remember 75% of them.

Question 6 of 20

6. Question

Memory for personally experienced events is referred to as_______whereas memory for abstract knowledge irrespective of the circumstances under which it was required is referred to as_______.

Episodic, semantic
Semantic, episodic
Autobiographical semantic
Autobiographical and episodic

Question 7 of 20

7. Question

We know that a common distinction is made between explict and implicit memory. But which one of the following does NOT accurately reflect one of these terms?

Explicit memory involves conscious awareness of the original information or the situation in which the learning occured.
Implicit memory refers to an influence on behaviour, feelings or thoughts as a result of prior expeience,
Explicit memory involves recollection of the original information or experience that is subsequently recalled.
Implicit memory involves a conscious recollection of the original events.

Question 8 of 20

8. Question

Sperling’s partial report procedure:

Is a technique for inferring the capacity of a memory store, even when the memories do not last long enough to inform a complete report.
Found that people could recall about 3 items from a row of 4 items.
Suggested people could recall about 9 out of 12 items for a very short time.
All of the above.

Question 9 of 20

9. Question

why is it so difficult to make generalizations about memory and the brain? Select the answer that is NOT correct?

Because remembering is a complex process.
Because remembering involves most other cognitive aspects of a person.
Because remembering involves most other emotional aspects of a person.
Because so much of the body is active when someone is remembering.

Question 10 of 20

10. Question

How is the encoding specificity principle related to test-taking situations?

What will be remembered later depends on how hard people study
What will be remembered later depends on the similarity between the test conditions and the original study conditions.
We are more likely to rely on episodic memory when study and semantic memory when we take twests
What will be remembered depends on how we process the information

Question 11 of 20

11. Question

information about how to approach familiar situations such as a day at school, washing clothes or ordering in a restaurant is organized into knowledge structures referred to as______.

Sketches
Schemes
Episodes
Schemas

Question 12 of 20

12. Question

Which memory store holds information for the shortest duration?

Sensory memory
Short-term memory
Long-term memory
Explicit memory

Question 13 of 20

13. Question

Which of the following was NOT the case in Bower et al.’s (1969) research into the role of organized hierarchical information in memory?

Presenting the words in meaningful hierarchies reduced the learning time to a quarter of that required for the same words randomly positioned.
The organization of the hierarchy emphasized aspects of the words meanings.
The hierarchy identified three different levels of information processing.
The organization of the hierarchy simplified the learning of the lists.

Question 14 of 20

14. Question

Which combination of methods of learning and remembering information can be practiced to significantly improve transfer of information into our long-term memory store?

Elaborative rehearsal and spaced retrieval practice
Maintenance rehearsal and frequent retrieval practice
Schemas and mnemonics
Explicit and implicit retrieval

Question 15 of 20

15. Question

Why some participants read an ambiguous passage about a woman, Nancy in a doctor’s office, which psychological of their recall of the information from the passage?

Imagined memories of the event
Expectations about recalling the passage at a later time
Expectations about Nancy's condition
Pre-existing knowledge about people named Nancy

Question 16 of 20

16. Question

Which one of the following statements corresponds with how johnson and Raye(11681) distinguished between external memories and internally generated ones?

External memories have stronger sensory attributes.
Internal memories are more detailed and complex.
External memories have more traces of the reasoning and imaging that generated them.
Internal memories are set in a coherent context of time and place

Question 17 of 20

17. Question

Retrieval-induced forgetting refers to which memory-based phenomenon?

People remember practiced information better than unpracticed information
People remember unpracticed information better than practiced information
People remember names better than faces
People remember faces better than names

Question 18 of 20

18. Question

The most recent addition to Baddeley’s working memory model describes a component that integrates and manipulates material in working memory. This component is referred to as the:

Visio-spatial sketch pad
Phonological loop
Central executive
Episodic buffer

Question 19 of 20

19. Question

The improved recall of items presented at the end of a list compared to the middle of a list is referred to as the:

Last research effect
Recency effect
Delayed effect
Limited capacity effect

Question 20 of 20

20. Question

Identify the INCORRECT characteristic of expanding retrieval practice. Expanding retrieval practice:

Is an excellent strategy for students
Requires a high degree of effort
Does not require much creativity
Can be applied to virtually any material

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