PSY 101 Exam 2 Questions and Answers
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When Tiffany begins preparing for her history exam, she decides to create ways to
encode the material. One way she does this is to link specific historical events to
her experience of the events. For example, when she reads about the specifics of
the September 11 terrorist attacks, she remembers where she was when she heard
about the attacks, how she reacted, and the first person she called, so that she can
recall the material more easily during the exam. This type of memory can be BEST
identified as:
implicit memory
episodic memory
semantic memory
procedural memory - ANSWER-episodic memory
Your friend tells you that one of her favorite memories from childhood is when
her family had "ice cream night." This type of memory is an example of _____
memory.
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,procedural
episodic
sensory
semantic - ANSWER-episodic
The group of related mental processes involved in acquiring, storing, and retrieving
information is called:
perception
sensation
memory
learning - ANSWER-memory
During her lunch break at work, Portia is discussing a movie that she recently saw.
Although she knows the actor's name who played the main character, she is having
trouble remembering it right now. It frustrates her because she feels like it's "right
there" in her memory. Portia is having a(n):
misinformation effect experience.
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, memory trace failure.
encoding failure.
tip-of-the-tongue experience. - ANSWER-tip of the tongue experience
Examples of _____ include the context effect and mood congruence.
cued recall
the encoding specificity principle
retrieval
the semantic network model - ANSWER-the encoding specificity principle
The tendency to remember items at the beginning and end of a list better than
items in the middle of a list is also known as the _____ effect.
primacy
serial position
misinformation
recency - ANSWER-serial position
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100% Pass
When Tiffany begins preparing for her history exam, she decides to create ways to
encode the material. One way she does this is to link specific historical events to
her experience of the events. For example, when she reads about the specifics of
the September 11 terrorist attacks, she remembers where she was when she heard
about the attacks, how she reacted, and the first person she called, so that she can
recall the material more easily during the exam. This type of memory can be BEST
identified as:
implicit memory
episodic memory
semantic memory
procedural memory - ANSWER-episodic memory
Your friend tells you that one of her favorite memories from childhood is when
her family had "ice cream night." This type of memory is an example of _____
memory.
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,procedural
episodic
sensory
semantic - ANSWER-episodic
The group of related mental processes involved in acquiring, storing, and retrieving
information is called:
perception
sensation
memory
learning - ANSWER-memory
During her lunch break at work, Portia is discussing a movie that she recently saw.
Although she knows the actor's name who played the main character, she is having
trouble remembering it right now. It frustrates her because she feels like it's "right
there" in her memory. Portia is having a(n):
misinformation effect experience.
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, memory trace failure.
encoding failure.
tip-of-the-tongue experience. - ANSWER-tip of the tongue experience
Examples of _____ include the context effect and mood congruence.
cued recall
the encoding specificity principle
retrieval
the semantic network model - ANSWER-the encoding specificity principle
The tendency to remember items at the beginning and end of a list better than
items in the middle of a list is also known as the _____ effect.
primacy
serial position
misinformation
recency - ANSWER-serial position
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