A)

B)
C)
D)

1.After Maya gave her friend the password to a protected website, the friend was able to
remember it only long enough to type it into the password box. In this instance, the
password was clearly stored in her ________ memory.
procedural
short-term
flashbulb
implicit

A)
B)
C)
D)

2.Mr. Nydam suffers amnesia and is unable to remember playing golf several times each
week on a particular course. Yet the more he plays the course, the more his game
improves. His experience illustrates the need to distinguish between
short-term memory and long-term memory.
proactive interference and retroactive interference.
explicit memory and implicit memory.
recognition and recall.

A)
B)
C)
D)

3.Another term for implicit memory is ________ memory.

iconic
short-term
nondeclaritive
state-dependent

A)
B)
C)
D)

4.Mentally rehearsing the glossary definitions of unfamiliar terms in order to remember

them for a later test illustrates
the peg-word system.
procedural memory.
effortful processing.
echoic memory.

A)
B)
C)
D)

5.Employing the single word HOMES to remember the names of North America's five
Great Lakes best illustrates the use of
the spacing effect.
the serial position effect.
a mnemonic technique.
implicit memory.

A)
B)
C)
D)

6.The semantic processing of the words in a short poem illustrates

procedural memory.
the peg-word system.
the serial position effect.
deep processing.

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A)
B)
C)
D)

7.Which of the following is central to the processing of procedural memories?

hippocampus
hypothalamus
basal ganglia
amygdala

A)
B)
C)
D)

8.Conscious memories of emotionally stressful events are especially likely to be facilitated

by activation of the
basal ganglia.
amygdala.
cerebellum.
hypothalamus.

A)
B)
C)
D)

9.Which of the following is believed to be the synaptic basis for learning and memory?
priming
semantic encoding
proactive interference
long-term potentiation

A)
B)
C)
D)

10.At a block party, Cyndi is introduced to eight new neighbors. Moments later, she
remembers only the names of the first three and last two neighbors. Her experience
illustrates
source amnesia.
the misinformation effect.
implicit memory.
the serial position effect.

A)
B)
C)
D)

11.After suffering a brain injury in a motorcycle accident, Arotza cannot form new
memories. He can, however, remember events before the accident. Arotza's memory
difficulty most clearly illustrates
retroactive interference.
the serial position effect.
anterograde amnesia.
iconic memory.

A)
B)
C)
D)

12.The happier Judie is, the more readily she recalls positive life experiences. This best
illustrates that emotional states can become
retrieval cues.
short-term memories.
sensory memories.
flashbulb memories.

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A)
B)
C)
D)

13.During her evening Spanish language exam, Janica so easily remembers the French
vocabulary she studied that morning that she finds it difficult to recall the Spanish
vocabulary she rehearsed that afternoon. Her difficulty best illustrates
the spacing effect.
proactive interference.
source amnesia.
retroactive interference.

A)
B)
C)
D)

14.Mrs. McBride can't consciously recall how frequently she criticizes her children because
it would be too anxiety-arousing to do so. Sigmund Freud would have suggested that her
poor memory illustrates
source amnesia.
proactive interference.
shallow processing.
repression.

A)
B)
C)
D)

15.After Teresa was verbally threatened by someone in a passing car, she was asked whether
she recognized the man who was driving the car. Several hours later, Teresa mistakenly
recalled that the driver was a male rather than a female. Teresa's experience best
illustrates
implicit memory.
proactive interference.
the misinformation effect.
the serial position effect.

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Answer Key
1.B
2.C
3.C
4.C
5.C
6.D
7.A
8.B
9.D
10.D
11.C
12.A
13.B
14.D
15.C

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