Intermittent practice

If memory is required over a short interval, which type of practice is superior?

Question 1 options:

	Spaced practice
	Massed practice
	Intermittent practice
	Rehearsal practice

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Question 2 (1 point)

Where long-term retention is concerned, which type of practice is superior?

Question 2 options:

	Spaced practice
	Massed practice
	Intermittent practice
	Rehearsal practice

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Question 3 (1 point)

One theory explaining why the distributed-processing effect works states that the spacing between repetitions facilitates memory by increasing the likelihood that each occurrence of a repeated item is stored in a different way in memory.  This is called

Question 3 options:

	Study-Phase Retrieval Accounts
	Deficient-Processing Accounts
	Encoding-Variability Accounts
	Multiprocess Accounts

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Question 4 (1 point)

Most mnemonic procedures utilize three memory processes.  Which of the follow is NOT one of these?

Question 4 options:

	Imaging
	Symbolizing
	Organizing
	Associating

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Question 5 (1 point)

What types of mnemonics are designed to help remember rules, principles, and procedures?

Question 5 options:

	Keyword mnemonics
	Peg word mnemonics
	Link mnemonics
	Process mnemonics

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Question 6 (1 point)

When information comes into one sensory system (e.g., audition) and produces an effect in another sensory system (e.g., vision), this is called

Question 6 options:

	Schizophrenia
	The “S mnemonic”
	Cross-modal transfer
	Synesthesia

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Question 7 (1 point)

According to Ericsson and his colleagues, which of the following is NOT one of the three general principles for exceptional memory?

Question 7 options:

	Source memory encoding
	Meaningful encoding
	Retrieval structure
	Speedup

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Question 8 (1 point)

If a person cannot recall a word, but is able to retrieve some information about the word (e.g., the first letter, the number of syllables, etc.), this is called the _____ phenomenon.

Question 8 options:

	Pseudo-amnesia
	Tip-of-the-tongue
	Edge-of-consciousness
	Nearly-known

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Question 9 (1 point)

The paradigm wherein a person is asked to judge whether two visually presented stimuli (e.g., letters or three-dimensional shapes) are identical or mirror reflections of each other is called

Question 9 options:

	Mental scanning
	Mental rotation
	Imagery effect
	Picture superiority effect

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Question 10 (1 point)

The hypothesized existence of separate but interconnected verbal and imaginal systems is termed

Question 10 options:

	Verbal-imagery hypothesis
	Memory-retrieval hypothesis
	Multiple-processing hypothesis
	Dual-coding hypothesis

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Question 11 (1 point)

Pavio’s Dual Coding theory is consistent with which of the following theories?

Question 11 options:

	Baddley and Hitch’s working memory theory
	Skinner’s behavioral theory
	Craik and Tulvings levels theory
	Miller’s magic number theory

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Question 12 (1 point)

Sometimes people get lost when returning from a destination.  The environment looks different coming and going.  This can be explained by

Question 12 options:

	Euclidean memory
	Survey memory
	Orientation dependence
	Spatial reference systems

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Question 13 (1 point)

Spatial knowledge is stored in the brain

Question 13 options:

	Hierarchically
	Neuronally
	Spatially
	Intrinsically

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Question 14 (1 point)

Speakers of Western languages tend to preserve _____ spatial relationships when reproducing a pattern from the opposite side.

Question 14 options:

	Egocentric
	Environmental
	Isotonic
	Bilateral

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Question 15 (1 point)

Recent experiments have shown that _____ perform better than ____ on tasks that require memory of the locations and identities of objects

Question 15 options:

	Males; females
	Females; males
	Dogs; cats
	Cats; dogs

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Question 16 (1 point)

Recent experiments have shown that _____ perform better than _____ on tasks that require keeping track of orientation in large-scale environments.

Question 16 options:

	Males; females
	Females; males
	Dogs; cats
	Cats; dogs

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Question 17 (1 point)

When you walk into a classroom and see chairs, desks, and a computer at the front of the classroom, chances are you will go sit in a chair and face the front of the classroom while waiting for the class to start, even though you have never seen this particular classroom.  The reason you do this is because you have a _____ of a classroom.

Question 17 options:

	Category
	Concept
	Representation
	Image

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Question 18 (1 point)

Categories are not as neat and obvious as they seem.  Many items are thought to be either barely part of, or barely not part of, category.  These borderline items illustrate the concept of

Question 18 options:

	Psychological Categories
	Almost-there Categories
	Borderline Categories
	Fuzzy Categories

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Question 19 (1 point)

A category prototype is a(n) _____ member of a category.

Question 19 options:

	Borderline
	Incidental
	Typical
	Atypical

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Question 20 (1 point)

The family resemblance theory would predict that which of the following would be called to mind most quickly when the category “bird” is primed?

Question 20 options:

	Penguin
	Ostrich
	Ostrich
	Robin

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Question 21 (1 point)

In terms of categorization, people generally have a preference for the _____ level when referring to an object.

Question 21 options:

	Superordinate
	Basic
	Subordinate
	Nominal

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Question 22 (1 point)

_____ categories are especially difficult for young children to fully acquire.

Question 22 options:

	Superordinate
	Basic
	Subordinate
	Nominal