ZOO 3731 Chapter 1 through 4 Introduction to the study of Memory TEST BANK

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Study of Memory

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. What kind of a coil does TMS use to stimulate particular areas of the brain?
a. magnetic
b. behavior
c. memory
d. zinc
Ans: a
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Transmagnetic Stimulation (TMS)
Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Magnetic fields created in an fMRI use a three-dimensional image capturing ______
of the brain.
a. density
b. structure
c. function
d. measurements
Ans: b
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Neuroimaging
Difficulty Level: Medium

3. PET scans use special chemicals to obtain a three-dimensional image of the brain.
What kind of chemicals are these?
a. organic
b. compound
c. magnetic
d. radioactive
Ans: d
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Neuroimaging
Difficulty Level: Easy

4. MEG uses a specific kind of sensor to detect small magnetic fields produced by
electrical activity. What are these sensors?
a. radioactive
b. magnetic
c. structure
d. function
Ans: b
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

,Answer Location: Neuroimaging
Difficulty Level: Easy

5. EEG uses a special material to measure electric output of the brain. What are these
special materials?
a. electrodes
b. magnets
c. chemicals
d. sensors
Ans: a
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Neuroimaging
Difficulty Level: Easy

6. Neuroimaging uses a set of techniques to observe the brain and assign functions.
What is the function of this type of operation called?
a. shocking
b. stimulating
c. mapping
d. aligning
Ans: c
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Neuroimaging
Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Neuropsychology is the study of people with specific damage. What kind of damage
is the speciality?
a. head
b. brain
c. skull
d. thought
Ans: b
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Neuropsychology
Difficulty Level: Medium

8. What type of mental structure is common across many different types of animals?
a. memory
b. brains
c. neurons
d. genetics
Ans: a
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Animal Models
Difficulty Level: Medium

,9. Judgments of learning are called this as we study items and whether or not we will
remember them.
a. memories
b. hopes
c. models
d. predictions
Ans: d
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Metamemory Judgments
Difficulty Level: Easy

10. Reality monitoring is our specific ability to do this concerning memory as reality or
imagined.
a. sense
b. care
c. measure
d. distinguish
Ans: d
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Source Judgments
Difficulty Level: Medium

11. We do many things at different times all day long. However, which of the following is
part of our everyday moment?
a. eating
b walking
c. watching
d. remembering
Ans: d
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Introduction to the Study of Memory
Difficulty Level: Easy

12. Which of the following forms is the basis of our views of ourselves and our
personalities?
a. image
b. retrospection
c. judgment
d. memory
Ans: d
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Introduction to the Study of Memory
Difficulty Level: Medium

13. Name the type of evidence that is a product of verifiable scientific research.
a. empirical

, b. modified
c. stratified
d. scientific
Ans: a
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Science of Memory
Difficulty Level: Easy

14. Which term describes the verbal models of how memory works?
a. memory metaphors
b. developmental reasoning
c. memory cues
d. stimulation
Ans: a
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The History of Memory Research
Difficulty Level: Easy

15. Choose the term that best describes avoidance to effects of meaning on memory.
a. chunking
b. nonsense syllables
c. absolute resolution
d. saving curve
Ans: b
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850–1909)
Difficulty Level: Medium

16. What term best describes a graph that traces the decline of memory?
a. savings score
b. forgetting curve
c. mnemonic improvement
d. retention graph
Ans: b
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850–1909)
Difficulty Level: Medium

17. What term best describes reduction in time required to relearn a previously
mastered list?
a. forgetting curve
b. savings score
c. mnemonic graph
d. retention graph
Ans: b
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension