Question 1 of 2 1.0/ 1.0 Points
Q135. (263.2-3) Assuming that you remain healthy, but never study it or anything related to it again, when will you forget all the content of your major?
Correct
A. never
Feedback: Yes, the effect of distributed study insures that you will remember some content for the rest of your life. (263.3): Figure 10.6 shows retention of students who studied Spanish in college [50 years later].
B. 40 years
C. 10 years
D. 20 years
E. 30 years
Answer Key: A
Question 2 of 2 1.0/ 1.0 Points
Q136. (264.1-3) The long-term autobiographical memory function includes
A. Zero recall for at least the first three years of life
B. a reminiscence bump of better recall between 15 and 25 than when younger or slightly older
C. best recall of the most recent events
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D. all of the above
Feedback: Correct. (264.1): the distribution of the ages of many events recalled in response to different cue words ... has three main features: First, older memories are less likely to be recalled than more recent ones.... Second, there is a reminiscence bump consisting of a surprisingly large number of memories coming from ages 10-30.... Third, there is childhood amnesia
E. none of the above
Answer Key: D
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Question 1 of 7 0.0/ 1.0 Points
Q139. A person with long-term retrograde amnesia has the poorest memory for
A. motor skills
B. the year before the accident
C. the month before the accident
Incorrect
D. perceptual skills
Feedback: No, perceptual skills are not forgotten. For declarative memory, the closer to the injury the poorer the memory. So the answer is the week before the accident. (269.4): Retrograde amnesia inverts the normal recall function. Recent memories are least likely ... to be recalled.
E. the week before the accident
Answer Key: E
Question 2 of 7 0.0/ 1.0 Points
D133. What will you remember most accurately of your college life 25 years from now?
A. academic facts from your freshmen courses
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B. the social events associated with graduation
Feedback: No, you will most accurately remember academic facts from your major.
C. academic facts from your senior courses
D. academic facts from your major
E. the social events
Answer Key: D
Question 3 of 7 1.0/ 1.0 Points
D134. Because children below the age of four cannot construct and tell stories
A. they cannot draw realistic pictures
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B. afterwards when they grow up they lack autobiographical memory for that period of their lives
Feedback: Correct. (264.13): very young children are not skilled enough at story telling to weave their experiences into their autobiographies
C. early memories undergo reminiscence and only emerge when they are older
D. they are uninterested in conversation
E. they are uninterested in hearing stories
Answer Key: B
Question 4 of 7 1.0/ 1.0 Points
D135. What will you remember 10 years from now?
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A. Recognition of classmates' faces and names will be greater than recall of classmates' names
Feedback: Correct. (263.3): ability to recognize classmates' names showed no decline after fourteen years and ability to recognize classmates' pcitures showed no decline after thirty-four years. In contrast, the ability to recall names of classmates, even when cued by their pictures remained constant for only three years.
B. Recall of same-sex classmates' names will be greater than recall of opposite-sex classmates names
C. Recognition of opposite-sex classmates' faces will be greater than recognition of same-sex classmates' faces
D. There will be no decline on recognition or recall of classmates' names for 10 years.
E. Recognition of classmates' names will equal recall of classmates names
Answer Key: A
Question 5 of 7 0.0/ 1.0 Points
D136. What is true about the autobiographical retention function?
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A. The greatest number of memories are for the ages 15 through 25
Feedback: No, (264.1): Figure 10.7 shows [the greatest number of memories are recent memories.]
B. The least number of memories are recent memories
C. The greatest number of memories are childhood memories
D. The least number of memories are for the ages 15 through 25.
E. The greatest number of memories are recent memories.
Answer Key: E
Question 6 of 7 1.0/ 1.0 Points
D137. The memories of traumatic events
A. are forgotten faster than memories of normal events as the result of suppression.
B. are remembered hyper-accurately as a result of the flashbulb effect
C. resist the effect of post event information
D. are immediately forgotten but are recalled later through spontaneous recovery
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E. are difficult to forget
Feedback: Correct. (266.2): the details of an emotion-inducing story are less likely to be forgotten than a mundante one
Answer Key: E
Question 7 of 7 0.0/ 1.0 Points
D138. Evidence from studies of flashbulb memories suggests that a unique event may no longer be remembered accurately after
Incorrect
A. one week
Feedback: No, (267.1): memories of an event ... are likely to be distorted after about two and a half years
B. three years
C. one year
D. one month
E. sixth months
Answer Key: B