62 Psychology Multiple Choice Final Due Tonight!

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