ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
a - CORRECT ANSWER - The three steps in memory processing are______________.
a. encoding, storage, retrieval
b. translations, maintenance, transmittal
c. dictation, capturing, regurgitation
d. encrypting, sensory retention, neural processing
c - CORRECT ANSWER - According to the three-stage memory model, information
must first enter__________memory, and transfer to _________memory, and then to
___________memory to be retained in our memory systems.
a. sensory, short-term, permanent
b. short-term, sensory, long-term
c. sensory, short-term, long-term
d. working, short-term, permanent
c - CORRECT ANSWER - The three storage systems included in the traditional memory
model are______________.
a. sensory, perceptual, and factual
b. semantic, episodic, and long-term
c. sensory, short-term, and long term
d. conscious, unconscious, and preconscious
c - CORRECT ANSWER - Knowledge of facts and the relationships between them is
called ____________memory, whereas knowledge of events is called ____________memory.
a. informative; autobiographical
b. factual; landmark
, c. semantic, episodic
d. acquired, innate
b - CORRECT ANSWER - With regard to memory, tying shoes requires the use of your
___________________.
a. semantic memory
b. procedural memory
c. episodic memory
d. explicit memory
a - CORRECT ANSWER - The ___________approach suggests that a deeper analysis of
meaning enables you to improve long-term memory.
a. levels of processing
b. episodic processing
c. semantic processing
d. consolidation
d - CORRECT ANSWER - When taking an exam, students often do better with items
taken from the first and last of the chapter covered by the exam. This demonstrates
________________.
a. the superiority of distributed practice
b. source amnesia
c. the state-dependent effect
d. the serial position effect
b - CORRECT ANSWER - The tendency to remember previous sad events when feeling
sad in the present is an example of ________memory.
a. pessimistic
b. mood congruent
c. context dependent