PSY 101 Exam 2 UPDATED ACTUAL
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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 - CORRECT 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.
procedural
episodic
sensory
semantic - CORRECT ANSWER - episodic
The group of related mental processes involved in acquiring, storing, and retrieving information
is called:
perception
sensation
memory
learning - CORRECT 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.
memory trace failure.
encoding failure.
tip-of-the-tongue experience. - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER - serial position
Because you know that you have a doctor's appointment next week, you keep reminding yourself
to not forget. This type of remembering to do something in the future is also called _____
memory.
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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 - CORRECT 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.
procedural
episodic
sensory
semantic - CORRECT ANSWER - episodic
The group of related mental processes involved in acquiring, storing, and retrieving information
is called:
perception
sensation
memory
learning - CORRECT 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.
memory trace failure.
encoding failure.
tip-of-the-tongue experience. - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER - serial position
Because you know that you have a doctor's appointment next week, you keep reminding yourself
to not forget. This type of remembering to do something in the future is also called _____
memory.
