Memory MCQs

Option A: Recognition

Option B: Familarity

Option C: Unconscious influences

Option D: Recall

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Bringing information to mind in responses to non-specific cues.

Option B: Bringing information to mind in responses to specific cues.

Option C: identifying information provided at test time as having been encountered previously.

Option D: Responding differently to previously encountered information than to new information.

Correct Answer: Bringing information to mind in responses to specific cues. ✔

Option A: People have different memory capabilities and so make different errors.

Option B: People have different verbal abilities and vocabularies and so would report their memory differently, even though their actual memory were the same.

Option C: Peoples have different motivations and so will not all equally hard; they will report exactly what occurred, but they will leave different parts out.

Option D: People have different past experiences, values and goals and so will experience different events, even when the external event in the same.

Correct Answer: People have different past experiences, values and goals and so will experience different events, even when the external event in the same. ✔

Option A: Explicit memory involves conscious awareness of the original information or the situation in which the learning occured.

Option B: Implicit memory refers to an influence on behaviour, feelings or thoughts as a result of prior expeience,

Option C: Explicit memory involves recollection of the original information or experience that is subsequently recalled.

Option D: Implicit memory involves a conscious recollection of the original events.

Correct Answer: Implicit memory involves a conscious recollection of the original events. ✔

Option A: Because remembering is a complex process.

Option B: Because remembering involves most other cognitive aspects of a person.

Option C: Because remembering involves most other emotional aspects of a person.

Option D: Because so much of the body is active when someone is remembering.

Correct Answer: Because so much of the body is active when someone is remembering. ✔

Option A: Presenting the words in meaningful hierarchies reduced the learning time to a quarter of that required for the same words randomly positioned.

Option B: The organization of the hierarchy emphasized aspects of the words meanings.

Option C: The hierarchy identified three different levels of information processing.

Option D: The organization of the hierarchy simplified the learning of the lists.

Correct Answer: The hierarchy identified three different levels of information processing. ✔

Option A: Imagined memories of the event

Option B: Expectations about recalling the passage at a later time

Option C: Expectations about Nancy’s condition

Option D: Pre-existing knowledge about people named Nancy

Correct Answer: C. Expectations about Nancy’s condition ✔

Option A: People remember practiced information better than unpracticed information

Option B: People remember unpracticed information better than practiced information

Option C: People remember names better than faces

Option D: People remember faces better than names

Correct Answer: People remember practiced information better than unpracticed information ✔

Option A: Is an excellent strategy for students

Option B: Requires a high degree of effort

Option C: Does not require much creativity

Option D: Can be applied to virtually any material

Correct Answer: Requires a high degree of effort ✔

Option A: Last research effect

Option B: Recency effect

Option C: Delayed effect

Option D: Limited capacity effect

Correct Answer: Recency effect ✔

Option A: Visio-spatial sketch pad

Option B: Phonological loop

Option C: Central executive

Option D: Episodic buffer

Correct Answer: Episodic buffer ✔

Option A: External memories have stronger sensory attributes.

Option B: Internal memories are more detailed and complex.

Option C: External memories have more traces of the reasoning and imaging that generated them.

Option D: Internal memories are set in a coherent context of time and place

Correct Answer: External memories have stronger sensory attributes. ✔

Option A: Elaborative rehearsal and spaced retrieval practice

Option B: Maintenance rehearsal and frequent retrieval practice

Option C: Schemas and mnemonics

Option D: Explicit and implicit retrieval

Correct Answer: Elaborative rehearsal and spaced retrieval practice ✔

Option A: Sketches

Option B: Schemes

Option C: Episodes

Option D: Schemas

Correct Answer: Schemas ✔

Option A: Sensory memory

Option B: Short-term memory

Option C: Long-term memory

Option D: Explicit memory

Correct Answer: Sensory memory ✔

Option A: What will be remembered later depends on how hard people study

Option B: What will be remembered later depends on the similarity between the test conditions and the original study conditions.

Option C: We are more likely to rely on episodic memory when study and semantic memory when we take twests

Option D: What will be remembered depends on how we process the information

Correct Answer: What will be remembered later depends on the similarity between the test conditions and the original study conditions. ✔

Option A: 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.

Option B: Found that people could recall about 3 items from a row of 4 items.

Option C: Suggested people could recall about 9 out of 12 items for a very short time.

Option D: All of the above.

Correct Answer: All of the above. ✔

Option A: Episodic, semantic

Option B: Semantic, episodic

Option C: Autobiographical semantic

Option D: Autobiographical and episodic

Correct Answer: Episodic, semantic ✔

Option A: Bring information to mind in response to non-specific cues.

Option B: Bring information to mind in response to specific cues.

Option C: Identify information provide at test time as having been encountered previously.

Option D: Respond differently to previously encountered information than to new information.

Correct Answer: Respond differently to previously encountered information than to new information. ✔