PSYCH 2301 Quiz #7 UPDATED ACTUAL
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
When he was 10 Billy won the city chess championship. Thirty years later, he remembers
shaking hands with his opponent and lifting the trophy. These are ______ memories. -
CORRECT ANSWER - episodic
Shauntelle comes home from school one day, excited that she's learned the first five presidents of
the United States of America, and shares that list with her mother. This kind of general
information about facts is an example of ______ memory. - CORRECT ANSWER -
semantic
______ memory refers to the kind of memory that people in a group share. - CORRECT
ANSWER - Collective
Which of the following would be the best example of autobiographical memory? - CORRECT
ANSWER - 25-year old Lizanne remembers going to sleepaway camp when she was 10
years old.
The correct order of the major processes of memory is: - CORRECT ANSWER -
encoding, storage, and retrieval.
You rent a locker at a self-storage facility and secure it with a combination lock. This process of
accessing things from storage is most analogous to ______ in your memory system. - CORRECT
ANSWER - retrieval
Think back to the very first car you saw on the road today. What was driver wearing? If you're
like most people, you don't have any idea what the answer is. Why? - CORRECT
ANSWER - I did not encode the information.
Which of the following, if any, would you be very likely remember seeing during your visit to
the shopping mall last weekend? - CORRECT ANSWER - A woman dressed as a clown
riding a unicycle past each store in the mall.
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
When he was 10 Billy won the city chess championship. Thirty years later, he remembers
shaking hands with his opponent and lifting the trophy. These are ______ memories. -
CORRECT ANSWER - episodic
Shauntelle comes home from school one day, excited that she's learned the first five presidents of
the United States of America, and shares that list with her mother. This kind of general
information about facts is an example of ______ memory. - CORRECT ANSWER -
semantic
______ memory refers to the kind of memory that people in a group share. - CORRECT
ANSWER - Collective
Which of the following would be the best example of autobiographical memory? - CORRECT
ANSWER - 25-year old Lizanne remembers going to sleepaway camp when she was 10
years old.
The correct order of the major processes of memory is: - CORRECT ANSWER -
encoding, storage, and retrieval.
You rent a locker at a self-storage facility and secure it with a combination lock. This process of
accessing things from storage is most analogous to ______ in your memory system. - CORRECT
ANSWER - retrieval
Think back to the very first car you saw on the road today. What was driver wearing? If you're
like most people, you don't have any idea what the answer is. Why? - CORRECT
ANSWER - I did not encode the information.
Which of the following, if any, would you be very likely remember seeing during your visit to
the shopping mall last weekend? - CORRECT ANSWER - A woman dressed as a clown
riding a unicycle past each store in the mall.
