Memory and Cognition Chapter 6 1

Questions: Chapter 6 (Long-Term Memory – Structure)

This is a set of questions to help you check your understanding of the material. It is recommended that you do them right after doing the lecture and the readings for that section, and then check your answers.

1.  The inability to assimilate or retain new knowledge is known as:

  1. anterograde amnesia
  2. retrograde amnesia
  3. the primacy effect
  4. the serial effect

2.  Which of the following would most likely be a detailed long-term memory?

  1. I just sat down.
  2. I was talking to that girl just before class
  3. I was talking to that boy three months ago
  4. I talked to my cousin Amelia on the phone six months ago

3.  The primacy effect (from the serial position curve experiment) is associated with:

  1. Sensory memory
  2. Implicit memory
  3. STM
  4. LTM

4.  The recency effect occurs when participants are asked to recall a list of words. One way to get rid of the recency effect is to:

  1. have participants say “la, la, la” while studying the list
  2. present the list more slowly
  3. have participants count backwards for 30 seconds after hearing the last word of the list

5.  We are conscious of ______memories.

  1. Implicit
  2. Procedural
  3. Declarative
  4. All of the above

6.  “I remember being really excited last year, when my college team won the national championship in basketball.” This is an example of ______memory.

  1. Episodic
  2. Implicit
  3. Semantic
  4. Procedural

7.  Your text describes an “Italian woman” who, after an attack of encephalitis, had difficulty remembering people or facts she new before. She could, however, remember her life events and daily tasks. Her memory behavior reflects:

  1. Intact episodic memory but defective semantic memory
  2. Intact episodic memory but defective procedural memory
  3. Intact semantic memory but defective episodic memory
  4. Intact procedural memory but defective episodic memory

8.  Memory enhancement due to conceptual priming is a result of

  1. The test stimulus being the same or resembling the priming stimulus
  2. The test stimulus being different from the priming stimulus
  3. The test stimulus being similar in meaning to the priming stimulus
  4. The test stimulus being different in meaning from the priming stimulus

9.  According to your text, which of the following movies is LEAST accurate in its portrayal of a memory problem?

  1. The Bourne Identity
  2. Memento
  3. The Long Kiss Goodnight
  4. 50 First Dates

10.  Give examples, from your own experience, of 1) an episodic memory and 2) a semantic memory. Then explain how psychologists distinguish between episodic and semantic memory, and how these types of memories are connected.