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Psychology Chapter 7, Quiz 1

2. Irrelevant information will not be remembered as well as meaningful information, due to:
a. depth of processing.
b. retrieval.
c. short-term memory.
d. long-term memory.

3. You are able to briefly remember what your professor says in order to write your notes due to:
a. procedural memory.
b. selective attention.
c. echoic memory.
d. iconic memory.

4. The type of long-term memory that involves a personal experience is called:
a. semantic memory.
b. encoding.
c. episodic memory.
d. memory consolidation.

5. The subject is required to retrieve learned information from memory in::
a. recognition.
b. metamemory.
c. savings.
d. recall.

6. Knowledge of one's own memory ability is referred to as:
a. episodic memory
b. semantic memory.
c. metamemory.
d. short-term memory.

7. Steve is flunking statistics. He probably forgets to study his assignments, due to:
a. repression.
b. proactive interference.
c. retroactive interference.
d. decay.

8. If the information learned last semester in sociology is preventing a student from remembering the information being learned this semester in psychology, we say that _______ has occurred.
a. retroactive interference
b. decay
c. proactive interference
d. reaction time

9. If a subject learns list A, then learns list B, and finally is tested on list A and does very poorly, we would suspect that ____________ occurred.
a. retroactive interferenc
b. proactive interference
c. early interference
d. late interference

10. In the Hyde and Jenkins (1969) study on depth of processing, the group told to rate each word for its pleasantness or unpleasantness remembered the list of words because the process of remembering resulted in:
a. irrelevant processing.
b. shallow processing.
c. deep processing.n.
d. separate processing.