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All Chapters ( 1-18 ) Latest 2024
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1. Overview and History of Memory Research.
Chapter 2. Neuroscience of Memory.
Chapter 3. Methods and Principles.
Chapter 4. Sensory and Short-Term Memory.
Chapter 5. Working Memory.
Chapter 6. Nondeclarative Memory.
Chapter 7. Episodic Memory: Past and Future.
Chapter 8. Forgetting.
Chapter 9. Semantic Memory.
Chapter 10. Forms of Amnesia.
Chapter 11. Memory for Space and Time.
Chapter 12. Autobiographical Memory.
Chapter 13. Memory and Reality.
Chapter 14. Memory and the Law.
Chapter 15. Metamemory.
Chapter 16. Memory in Infancy and Childhood.
Chapter 17. Memory and Aging.
Chapter 18. Formal Models of Memory.
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Chapter 1: Overview and History
1. A relatively permanent record of an experience is the essence of __________.
a) behavioral potential
b) learning
c) memory
d) performance
2. Which is not a way that the term “memory” is used by psychologists?
a) as a unit of analysis
b) as a storage mechanism
c) as a process
d) as a record
3. Memory is __________.
a) a storage facility
b) the result of experience
c) a process
d) all of the above
4. Which is NOT a way that the term memory is used?
a) an item that holds the contents of previous experiences
b) a location where information is kept
c) mental processes involved in acquiring, storing, or retrieving information
d) a perfect replication of events
5. Which of the following is NOT an aspect of learning?
a) behavior potential
b) maturation
c) relative permanence
d) experience
6. Learning is __________.
a) a relatively permanent change in behavior potential
b) a process
c) the result of experience
d) all of the above
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7. What is a good definition of learning?
a) a change in the potential to alter behavior as a consequence of experience
b) putting information in the memory store
c) retaining contents of experience
d) the mental process used to acquire, store, or retrieve information
8. An engram is to memory as __________.
a) a keyboard is to a computer b) a mouse is to a computer c) a file is to a computer * d) a central
processing unit is to a computer
9. Why are there so many metaphors for memory?
a) because memory cannot be studied objectively
b) to demonstrate that all of our memories are different
c) because we cannot observe memory directly
d) because people’s attitudes and opinions change so much over time
10. Metaphors for memory (like a recorder or organized storage) are used because __________.
a) the uncomplicated nature of memory makes metaphors easy to find
b) memory must be observed indirectly, so metaphors are useful tools for understanding its
complexities
c) you can exercise your memory like a muscle, so creating new metaphors makes your memory
more efficient
d) using language as a mental representation prevents memory loss
11. Which metaphor captures the idea that there is an organization to memory?
a) cow’s stomach
b) lock and key
c) video camera
d) network
12. Which metaphor captures the idea that information in memory can be forgotten?
a) leaky bucket
b) computer
c) junk drawer
d) library
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13. Which metaphor of memory conveys the idea that memories are discrete collections of
information?
a) hidden observer
b) computer
c) literacy
d) aviary
14. One contribution of Plato’s philosophy to work on memory was the idea that __________.
a) different impressions vary in quality
b) memory is tied exclusively to experience
c) no man is an island
d) memories are stored in a collective subconscious
15. Aristotle’s laws of association include all of the following EXCEPT __________.
a) similarity
b) contiguity
c) contrast
d) idealized abstractions
16. Aristotle’s laws of association include all of the following EXCEPT __________.
a) similarity
b) regularity
c) contrast
d) contiguity
17. Who was the seventeenth-century scientist/philosopher who developed a sophisticated theory
of memory but never followed up on it, leaving it to fall into obscurity, further delaying the onset
of a scientific study of memory?
a) Isaac Newton
b) Robert Hooke
c) Charles Darwin
d) Benjamin Franklin
18. What influence did Darwin have on theories of memory?
a) the idea that memory develops in a person through a selection process
b) the concept that memory is dependent on a complex brain
c) the idea that memory has developed over the generations to adapt to the demands of the
environment
d) none
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