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1. One of the characteristics of explicit memory that distinguishes it from implicit memory is that it involves:
a. automatic processing.
b. well-practiced skills or behaviors.
c. conscious processing.
d. conditioned responses.
2. The part of the brain involved in the form of implicit memory called procedural memory is the:
a. frontal lobe.
b. medial temporal area.
c. cerebellum.
d. hippocampus.
3. Which of the following is true?
a. Recall involves implicit memory; recognition involves explicit memory.
b. Recall involves explicit memory; recognition involves implicit memory.
c. Both recall and recognition involve explicit, not implicit, memory.
d. Both recall and recognition involve implicit, not explicit, memory.
4. Reading skills are part of:
a. episodic memory.
b. declarative memory.
c. explicit memory.
d. implicit memory.
5. Classical conditioning, such as salivation in response to the clang of a dinner bell, involves:
a. explicit memory.
b. implicit memory.
c. both implicit and explicit memory.
d. either explicit or implicit memory, depending on the situation.
6. Memorizing the theories of important psychologists in preparation for an upcoming exam involves the use of:
a. semantic memory.
b. sensory memory.
c. implicit memory.
d. episodic memory.
7. Remembering what you ate for breakfast yesterday is an example of:
a. implicit memory.
b. episodic memory.
c. explicit memory.
d. sensory memory.
8. In most college courses your performance is most closely tied to your:
a. explicit memory.
b. short-term memory.
c. procedural memory.
d. implicit memory.
9. Which of the following memory tasks does not belong with the others?
a. essay
b. short answer
c. fill-in-the-blank
d. matching
10. Which of the following is believed to channel or distribute memory information to various regions of the brain for storage?
a. cerebellum
b. frontal lobe
c. hippocampus
d. hypothalamus
11. In the Roediger & McDermott study, people were more likely to:
a. accurately recognize a word if it had been falsely recalled.
b. accurately recall a word if it had been falsely recognized.
c. falsely recognize a word if it had been falsely recalled.
d. falsely recall a word if it had been accurately recognized.
12. Results of the Roediger & McDermott study and other research on false memory suggest that:
a. repeatedly telling a story based initially on false memory will help a person sort out what really happened.
b. recovered memories are almost always accurate.
c. repressed memories are generally more accurate than recovered memories.
d. repeatedly telling a story based initially on false memory will strengthen the person's confidence that the memory is genuine.
13. Results of the Roediger & McDermott study and other research on false memory suggest that the most effective way to study is to:
a. rely on your memory to know whether you've studied something before.
b. review your notes, checking that you recognize material.
c. close your text and try to recall the important concepts.
d. quiz yourself on each term you have studied.
14. A person who is unable to form new long-term memories following a head injury has probably suffered damage to which area of the brain?
a. hippocampus
b. cerebellum
c. thalamus
d. occipital lobe
15. Amnesics such as Clive Wearing have lost their:
a. explicit memory.
b. implicit memory.
c. conditioned responses.
d. procedural memory.
16. In order to see which brain areas are most active while a person performs mathematical calculations, a researcher would be advised to use:
a. an fMRI.
b. a PET scan.
c. a. or b.
d. none of the above.
17. Research by Schacter and his colleagues has demonstrated that the superior temporal and temporal/parietal areas of the brain play an important role in the processing of.
a. the auditory and speech characteristics of sounds.
b. visual images.
c. procedural memories.
d. highly practiced skills such as riding a bicycle.
18. When the memory for the sound of a word we have just heard is transferred from short-term to long-term memory, which area(s) of the brain is(are) activated?
a. superior temporal area
b. temporal/parietal
c. medial temporal
d. all of the above.
19. In their studies of recognition memory, Schacter and his colleagues found that falsely recognized words failed to activate the:
a. superior temporal and temporal/parietal areas.
b. hippocampus.
c. medial temporal area.
d. all of the above.
20. Critics of those who claim to have recovered repressed childhood memories point out that:
a. false memories can be created by associations triggered by other events.
b. recalling a false memory will strengthen a person's confidence that the memory is genuine.
c. it is difficult to verify the accuracy of recovered memories.
d. all of the above are true.