Experimental Psychology Test Bank
Course Introduction
Experimental Psychology introduces students to the fundamental principles and methodologies used in the scientific study of human behavior and mental processes. This course covers experimental design, hypothesis testing, data collection, and statistical analysis, emphasizing how controlled experiments can reveal insights into topics such as perception, learning, memory, cognition, and emotion. Students will gain hands-on experience designing and conducting experiments, interpreting results, and understanding ethical considerations in psychological research. Through lectures, laboratory exercises, and critical analysis of published studies, students will develop the skills necessary to evaluate psychological research and apply experimental methods in various contexts.
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Memory Foundations and Applications 3rd Edition by Bennett L. Schwartz
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Chapter 1: Introduction to the Study of Memory
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Q1) Learning and remembering are a practice known as:
A)empirical processes.
B)cued recall processes.
C)passive processes.
D)active processes.
Answer: D
Q2) Define the term indicating the associating between two items, such as in language.
A)paired-associated learning
B)language association
C)association by indication
D)associated language
Answer: A
Q3) Empirical evidence is evidence by a collection of witnesses.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Explain the importance of empirical evidence.
Answer: Data must be verifiable and reliable.
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Chapter 2: Memory and the Brain
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Q1) When an individual suspects a diagnosis of Alzheimer's, one of many dimentia/type illnesses, what will be the first deficit detected in this disease?
A)cognition
B)emotion
C)memory
D)behavior
Answer: C
Q2) Which of these limbic system structures is most associated with emotion and emotional learning?
A)hypothermus
B)hyperthalamus
C)thalamus
D)amygdala
Answer: D
Q3) Sudden and devastating injuries to the brain are called ______ brain injuries. Answer: traumatic
Q4) The electrochemical process of transmission in an axon is known as action ______. Answer: potential
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Chapter 3: Working Memory
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Q1) The episodic buffer holds episodic memories for a brief time to allow them to transfer between the work and what type of memory?
A)long-term
B)short-term
C)preterm
D)postterm
Answer: A
Q2) What concept refers to a very brief memory system that holds literal information for a fraction of a second to allow cognitive processing?
A)sensory memory
B)erstwhile memory
C)autobiographical memory
D)Von Restorff memory
Answer: A
Q3) The digit span task reports the amount of information that can be maintained in working memory.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Episodic Memory
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Q1) Explain the generation effect and give one example.
Q2) In Godden and Baddeley's experiment on encoding specificity, the results revealed that:
A)if a diver studied underwater, he or she remembered more when tested underwater.
B)if a diver studied underwater, he or she remembered more when tested on land.
C)if a diver studied underwater, he or she remembered better when tested under the influence of alcohol.
D)if a diver studied underwater, he or she remembered better when tested with nicotine.
Q3) Mood congruence meAnswer:
A)that moods are best remembered when we study them under levels of processing.
B)that we remember the moods we are in later, when it is congruent to do so.
C)that you are more likely to remember events if you are in the same mood as when you learned them.
D)that you are more likely to remember events that are positive when you are in a positive mood and more likely to remember events that are negative when you are in a negative mood.
Q4) Describe the importance of Endel Tulving's work on memory.
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Chapter 5: Semantic Memory
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Q1) Retrieving the word "attorney" when we meant to retrieve the word "barrister" is an example of a:
A)word-exchange error.
B)phonological flip.
C)node association error.
D)lexical transposition.
Q2) A ______ is a mental construct that contains information associated with a specific idea.
Q3) Schemas and scripts are higher order ______ memory representations.
Q4) Retrieving the word "attorney" when we meant to retrieve the word "barrister" is an example of a phonological flip.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The two theories that account for the bilingual lexicon are the single-store view and the dual store view.These two views differ with respect to:
A)how many levels of categorization bilinguals have.
B)whether there are multiple lexeme levels.
C)their explanation of coordinate bilinguals.
D)if lemmas are shared across languages.
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Chapter 6: Visual Memory
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Q1) Meissner and others research shows that, with respect to the cross-race bias effect,
A)the cross-race bias is largest when participants are tested in a racially charged environment.
B)minority groups are better at recognizing faces of the majority group than the majority group is at recognizing faces of minority groups.
C)majority groups are better at recognizing faces of the minority group than the minority group is at recognizing faces of majority groups.
D)the cross-race bias is only apparent in American society.
Q2) Which of the following statements are true about learning and cognitive maps?
A)Cognitive maps are invariably distorted so much that we should not use them.
B)Cognitive maps are selectively impaired in prosopagnosia.
C)Cognitive maps can be studied using Shepard-Metzler techniques.
D)Remembering directions is better when there were distinctive streets and landmarks than when there were neither.
Q3) The occipital cortex is the primary area for processing visual images.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Autobiographical Memory
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Q1) When adults do remember events from before the age of four, those memories tend to be of big events, usually later rehearsed, such as the birth of a sibling.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Talarico and Rubin (2007) compared memories of their personal whereabouts when they heard the news of 9/11 and an ordinary event around the same time.They found that ______ remained high for the news of 9/11 but dropped for the ordinary event.
Q3) Simcock and Hayne (2002) presented two-, three-, and four-year-old children with a demonstration of their "incredible shrinking machine." When the children were brought back one year later, they found that:
A)children only recalled items if the words for those items were in the vocabulary at the time of presentation.
B)only the oldest children could remember any of the objects seen.
C)because of the onset of childhood amnesia, only the four-year-olds showed deficits in memory.
D)recall was predicted by the level of trauma in each child's life.
Q4) Explain the results of Willem Wagenaar's work in a landmark diary study.
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Chapter 8: False Memory
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Q1) Explain the "Fuzzy-Trace" theory.
Q2) Describe the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) procedure.
Q3) Retrieval active ______ means that people may deliberately force themselves to not remember the item.
Q4) The term "false memory" refers to:
A)perceptual information that is mistaken for lexical memory.
B)memories that people have which do not correspond to events as they actually happened.
C)memories that correspond to encoding rather than retrieval.
D)memories that are inhibited and seldom are retained.
Q5) Repression can be defined as the:
A)the inhibition of retrieval.
B)the process whereby hypnotic suggestions are made during recovery.
C)the recovery of false memories during psychotherapy.
D)forgetting of highly emotional memories, usually from childhood.
Q6) Smith and Moynan (2008) found that when they supplied the category names to participants at time of test, participants forgot a great number of items from categories they had not recalled earlier.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Metamemory
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Q1) Dunlosky and Ariel (2011) were concerned about habitual learning, in which people follow simple rules that are not necessarily predictive of performance.They found that participants will often study the ______ item first rather than the easiest item not yet learned simply because their participants read from left to right.
Q2) In Cleary et al.'s (2012) study on déjà vu experiences, explain how familiarity was manipulated.
Q3) Metacognition refers to:
A)our ability to deflect our emotions onto recollective experiences.
B)our knowledge and awareness of our own cognitive processes.
C)our accuracy at predicting scientific phenomena.
D)our ability to recollect earlier tip-of-the-tongue experiences.
Q4) Explain retrospective confidence.
Q5) Temporal-lobe amnesiacs' feeling of knowing accuracy remains abnormal even though their memory performance declines.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Describe the difference between memory and metamemory.
Q7) Describe indirect or inferential theories.
Q8) Explain the Region of Proximal Learning
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Chapter 10: Memory Disorders
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Q1) Clive Wearing became amnesic because:
A)he suffered a severe stroke.
B)he suffered a bout of viral encephalitis.
C)of Korsakoff's disease.
D)of Capgrass syndrome.
Q2) The failure to become aware of a cognitive deficit is known as:
A)Ferrell's amnesia
B)Anosognosia
C)Alzheimer's syndrome
D)encoding specificity
Q3) Deficits in temporal ordering (that is, memory for time) are associated with which form of amnesia?
A)Transient global amnesia
B)Frontal lobe amnesia
C)Aphasic amnesia
D)Temporal lobe amnesia
Q4) Repetition priming means that if an item is repeated enough times it will be encoded even in anterograde amnesiacs.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Memory in Childhood
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Q1) Explain the theory of the mind.
Q2) According to the memory strategies view, memory improves in young children because:
A)the children are learning to apply knowledge of how memory works.
B)the processes of memory themselves improve as a child grow.
C)episodic memory comes online in the fourth year of life.
D)theory of mind drives the improvements in memory.
Q3) Children between the ages of 3 and 6 do not use ______ encoding spontaneously.
Q4) Most infants cannot recognize the sound and meaning of familiar words before their first birthday.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Dora is 6-year-old.You would expect her to:
A)know that the waiter at the restaurant does not know what she likes to eat.
B)show more suggestibility than her 9-year-old sister.
C)recall events that occurred 6 months earlier.
D)all of the above.
Q6) Describe how childhood amnesia relates to episodic memory.
Q7) With respect to ______ control, second-graders are likely to spend more time studying items that they gave low JOLs to.
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Chapter 12: Memory in Older Adults
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Q1) The observation that older adults use fewer chunking strategies than younger adults supports which view of the age-related declines in memory?
A)declines in linguistic capacity
B)declines in processing speed
C)declines in inhibition
D)declines in the strategic use of memory
Q2) When older adults ______ an object, they are often forget the correction that led them to correctly identify the object.
Q3) In studies in which general knowledge is tested (politics, history, sports, etc.),
A)younger adults are likely to recall more such facts.
B)older adults have had more time to accumulate more knowledge.
C)differences cannot be predicted on age alone.
D)younger adults learn faster, so they can recall more semantic information.
Q4) Older adults, relative to younger adults, have less difficulty recognizing melodies when they are played at a fast tempo than when they are played at a slower tempo.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Memory Improvement and Learning Efficiency
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Q1) Experiments have shown that:
A)retrieval practice works even when the person generates the wrong answer (and feedback is provided).
B)retrieval practice is not effective when the person generates the wrong answer.It leads to false memory perseverance.
C)retrieval practice ceases to be effective if the items have been overstudied.
D)all of the above are false.
Q2) In a test of distracted attention and false memory, Otgaar et al.use DRM lists (Deese-Roediger-McDermott lists).They found that distraction increased false memories and decreased true memories.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Playing tapes at subliminal levels or while someone is sleeping has been found to prove that you can learn new information by subliminal methods.
A)True
B)False
Q4) That we underestimate future forgetting and overestimate future remembering based on what we can retrieve now is known as ______ bias.
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