Cognitive Psychology Multiple Choice
Exam Questions
The word length effect shows that it is more difficult to remembers?
A. a list of words that are all the same length than a list of words that are of different lengths
B. a list of words that are of different lengths than a list of words that are all the same length
C. a long list of words than a short list of words
D. a list of long words than a list of shord words - CORRECT ANSWER D. A list of long words than a list of
short words
Which of the following processes is NOT influenced by working memory span?
, A. Reading ability
B. Reading comprehension
C. Inhibiting no-longer-relevant information
D. Blocking out distracting information - CORRECT ANSWER A. Reading ability
A task with the instructions "Read the following words while repeating 'the, the, the' out loud, look
away, and then write down the words you remember" would most likely be studying
A. Echoic memory
B. The central executive
C. The phonological loop
D. The visuospatial sketch pad - CORRECT ANSWER C. The phonological loop
Which of the following is NOT one of the suggested causes of interference according to McGeoch's
interference theory of forgetting?
A. Response competition
B. Set
C. Decay
D. Altered Context - CORRECT ANSWER C. Decay
Which of the following is evidence in favor of the consolidation theory of forgetting?
A. The finding that memory is better if we sleep (while being allowed to dream) between study and test
relative to staying awake between study and test
B. The finding that memory is better if we sleep (while not being allowed to dream) during study test
relative to staying awake between study and test
C. The finding that individuals who recover from retrograde amnesia never remember anything that
happened to them in the moments before their accident
D. All of the above - CORRECT ANSWER D. All of the above
Perservation is...
A. A type of neuron
Exam Questions
The word length effect shows that it is more difficult to remembers?
A. a list of words that are all the same length than a list of words that are of different lengths
B. a list of words that are of different lengths than a list of words that are all the same length
C. a long list of words than a short list of words
D. a list of long words than a list of shord words - CORRECT ANSWER D. A list of long words than a list of
short words
Which of the following processes is NOT influenced by working memory span?
, A. Reading ability
B. Reading comprehension
C. Inhibiting no-longer-relevant information
D. Blocking out distracting information - CORRECT ANSWER A. Reading ability
A task with the instructions "Read the following words while repeating 'the, the, the' out loud, look
away, and then write down the words you remember" would most likely be studying
A. Echoic memory
B. The central executive
C. The phonological loop
D. The visuospatial sketch pad - CORRECT ANSWER C. The phonological loop
Which of the following is NOT one of the suggested causes of interference according to McGeoch's
interference theory of forgetting?
A. Response competition
B. Set
C. Decay
D. Altered Context - CORRECT ANSWER C. Decay
Which of the following is evidence in favor of the consolidation theory of forgetting?
A. The finding that memory is better if we sleep (while being allowed to dream) between study and test
relative to staying awake between study and test
B. The finding that memory is better if we sleep (while not being allowed to dream) during study test
relative to staying awake between study and test
C. The finding that individuals who recover from retrograde amnesia never remember anything that
happened to them in the moments before their accident
D. All of the above - CORRECT ANSWER D. All of the above
Perservation is...
A. A type of neuron
