PY 101 Exam 2 Quizzes
At his piano recital, Anwar plays his memorized piece flawlessly without the
aid of the printed music. This event best represents successful
retrieval
Mahalia is studying for a literature test, diligently reading her notes, reviewing
literary theories, and summarizing different works. Which memory task is she
working on?
storage
Brinda tries a new restaurant and orders her favorite dish. The presentation is
beautiful, and the smell is wonderful. When she takes a bite, the flavors are
incredible. Which stage of memory is she experiencing?
encoding
Which choice best describes the path of sensory information?
Information from the senses enters the various sensory registers, which
moves the data into working memory.
Every day on the way to her office, Gina passes a painting in the hallway.
Despite seeing it every day, she cannot describe it accurately. Which state of
memory is Gina missing?
encoding
,Molly walks into a festival and notices that the air smells like popcorn and
cotton candy and that there are lots of people talking loudly and bumping into
her. Which statement best describes what will happen to this memory?
It will be lost unless the brain finds something worth keeping.
Joe meets Lina for the first time at a bar. She tells him her number, but neither
one has paper or a cell phone. Joe recites Lina's number to himself until he
gets to his car to write it down. This strategy is called
maintenance rehearsal.
Dante is writing a pizza recipe. He groups the toppings into three categories:
meats, vegetables, and cheeses. Which strategy is he using to aid his working
memory?
chunking
Trina is learning a new dance routine. After she tries it twice, she finds she
can remember most of the steps. This situation is an example of _______
memory.
procedural
When Simone Biles responds to questions about her performance in the 2013
World Championships, she is using ________ memory.
episodic
, In a comic book, the Ultimate Evil conditions a hero to commit evil deeds
when he hears a specific chime. The hero does not realize the Evil has
conditioned him. Later, when he hears the chime, the hero robs a bank. This
is a case of
using priming to retrieve an implicit memory.
Which of the following is an example of explicit versus implicit memory?
A teen thinks about where the turn signal is, but his mother reaches for it
without realizing.
A school offers a professional development workshop that helps teachers
learn how to get students to retrieve information with as few cues as possible.
What might teachers be asked to do at the workshop?
Require students to relate new concepts to their own experiences.
We have an expert-written solution to this problem!
Martha has the same routine every morning. She gets up, brushes her teeth,
showers, eats breakfast, waters her plants, and leaves for work. One morning
she gets a call from her brother after breakfast. In the evening, she returns
home to find her plants wilted because she'd forgotten to water them. Which
of the following was affected by the phone call?
Prospective memory
At his piano recital, Anwar plays his memorized piece flawlessly without the
aid of the printed music. This event best represents successful
retrieval
Mahalia is studying for a literature test, diligently reading her notes, reviewing
literary theories, and summarizing different works. Which memory task is she
working on?
storage
Brinda tries a new restaurant and orders her favorite dish. The presentation is
beautiful, and the smell is wonderful. When she takes a bite, the flavors are
incredible. Which stage of memory is she experiencing?
encoding
Which choice best describes the path of sensory information?
Information from the senses enters the various sensory registers, which
moves the data into working memory.
Every day on the way to her office, Gina passes a painting in the hallway.
Despite seeing it every day, she cannot describe it accurately. Which state of
memory is Gina missing?
encoding
,Molly walks into a festival and notices that the air smells like popcorn and
cotton candy and that there are lots of people talking loudly and bumping into
her. Which statement best describes what will happen to this memory?
It will be lost unless the brain finds something worth keeping.
Joe meets Lina for the first time at a bar. She tells him her number, but neither
one has paper or a cell phone. Joe recites Lina's number to himself until he
gets to his car to write it down. This strategy is called
maintenance rehearsal.
Dante is writing a pizza recipe. He groups the toppings into three categories:
meats, vegetables, and cheeses. Which strategy is he using to aid his working
memory?
chunking
Trina is learning a new dance routine. After she tries it twice, she finds she
can remember most of the steps. This situation is an example of _______
memory.
procedural
When Simone Biles responds to questions about her performance in the 2013
World Championships, she is using ________ memory.
episodic
, In a comic book, the Ultimate Evil conditions a hero to commit evil deeds
when he hears a specific chime. The hero does not realize the Evil has
conditioned him. Later, when he hears the chime, the hero robs a bank. This
is a case of
using priming to retrieve an implicit memory.
Which of the following is an example of explicit versus implicit memory?
A teen thinks about where the turn signal is, but his mother reaches for it
without realizing.
A school offers a professional development workshop that helps teachers
learn how to get students to retrieve information with as few cues as possible.
What might teachers be asked to do at the workshop?
Require students to relate new concepts to their own experiences.
We have an expert-written solution to this problem!
Martha has the same routine every morning. She gets up, brushes her teeth,
showers, eats breakfast, waters her plants, and leaves for work. One morning
she gets a call from her brother after breakfast. In the evening, she returns
home to find her plants wilted because she'd forgotten to water them. Which
of the following was affected by the phone call?
Prospective memory
