PSYCHOLOGY MEMORY EXAM QUESTIONS WITH REVISED ANSWERS

PSYCHOLOGY MEMORY EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH REVISED
ANSWERS

Which type of memory: Flinching after your sibling says "Titanic" when he has
repeatedly splashed you with water on previous occasions of saying this word. -
Answer- Conditioning

Which type of memory: Being fast to recognize the name of a famous artist when you
had only recently heard the name in passing. - Answer- Priming

Which type of memory: What you ate for dinner yesterday - Answer- Episodic memory

Which type of memory: Remembering you need to buy a gift for your friend's birthday
party tonight - Answer- Prospective

Which type of memory: Remembering a phone number as you dial it - Answer- Working
memory

Which type of memory: Remembering the parts of the limbic system - Answer-
Semantic memory
involved in consolidating memories from short-term to long-term memory - Answer-
Hippocampus

a category of episodic memory, contains memories of significant life events - Answer-
Autobiographical

retrieval depends on the extent to which a person's state of mind at retrieval matches
the person's state of mind at encoding - Answer- State Dependent Memory

Which type of memory: Writing your name - Answer- Procedural memory

Which type of memory: Words to the Star Spangled Banner or other national anthem -
Answer- Semantic memory

Which type of memory: Your friends birthday party from last week - Answer- Episodic
memory