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The well-documented increase in auto accidents when a driver is talking on a cell phone is evidence for:
A. limitation on task-general resources
Cognitive psychologists often explain people's inability to do some kinds of things at the same time in terms of:
B. limited capacity
Which of the following statements best describes the change blindness?
D. Attention is needed to detect a change in alternating images
The cocktail party effect is the phenomenon that:
C. you remember hearing your own name in the unattended channel in a dichotic listening experiment
A patient has suffered brain damage and, as a result, now seems to ignore all information on the left side of her world. If shown words, she only reads the right half of the word; if asked to copy a picture, she only copies the right half. This patient seems to be suffering from:
C. the unilateral neglect syndrome
When doing a dichotic listening experiment, which of the following is the subject most likely to be noticed in the unattended ear?
C. The speaker changes from male to female
Schneider and Shiffrin did a series of experiments in which people had to decide whether one of several target letters is included in a test display of several letters. The reaction time to decide that a target letter was present indicated that:
C. the target letters were searched in parallel when the same target letters occurred trial after trial but were searched serially when different target letters occurred from trial to trial
If asked to perform two activities at the same time, performance will be improved if:
A. the two activities are highly dissimilar, drawing on different task-specific resources.
There are some basic problems with the modal model of memory. Which of the following is one of them?
B. Maintenance in STS is actually not necessary for LTS encoding.
In a free recall test, subjects listen to 20 words and then recall them. Which of the following words is most likely to enter Long Term Storage (LTS)?
A. The first one.
Providing a "title" for a confusing passage may help later recall because:
B. it is a good organizing device
Putting a 30 sec filled delay between presentation of a free recall list and test of that list affects:
D. recency
One reason why organization facilitates memory is that organization facilitates:
A. retrieval
A student wishes to memorize an essay so that she will be able to recall the essay's content later on. Which of the following is likely to be least helpful to the student?
C. reading the essay aloud over and over
Within working memory, the "lower level assistants":
C. provide short-term storage of items likely to be needed shortly by the central executive
Three of these terms denote essentially the same thing. One refers to something very different, Which one is the one that refers to something different?
A. explicit memory
Typically, patients with severe anterograde amnesia seem to have intact ____________ but disrupted ______________ memory.
C. implicit...explicit
Which of the following seems the best illustration of encoding specificity?
B. Susan has learned the principles covered in her psychology class, but she has difficulty remembering the principles in the context of her day-to-day life.
A researcher hypothesizes that high doses of caffeine can produce state-dependent learning. To confirm this hypothesis, the researcher would need to show that:
D. if participants studied the material after drinking a great deal of coffee, they will have an easier time remembering the material if they drink a great deal of coffee just before taking the memory test
In tachistoscopic testing, implicit memory seems to be maximized by:
B. a recent experience of actually seeing the words being tested
In part 1 of an experiment, a participant is given a series of definitions, and for each definition the participant's task is to say out loud the word being defined. One of the definitions is "soft metal of a yellowish color often used for electric wires." The participant responds, "copper." This experience will have the greatest influence on which of the following tasks?
B. a general knowledge task that includes the item, "What element makes up 10 percent of so-called yellow gold?"
If you identify a patient with intact short term memory but damaged long term memory, and a second patient with damaged short term memory but intact long term memory, you have an instance of:
A. double dissociation
The musician Clive Wearing was suffering from:
A. anterograde amnesia
____ words are recognized better than they are recalled, but _____ words are recalled better than they are recognized.
C. rare....common
In the Brown-Peterson experiment, a set of three words is forgotten within 30 seconds of counting backwards by 3's in what circumstances?
A. after enough word sets have been tested to build up proactive inhinbition
The main point of Schachter's claims about the "7 sins of memory" was:
B. our memories are actually quite well adapted to most of our needs
Which point did the "Lost in the mall" study make?
A. it is possible to induce false memories
Think of an experiment in which people were supposed to remember what they saw in an experimenter's office. The results of this experiment are best understood in terms of:
D. a schema
Flashbulb memories of an event are not always accurate. Which of the following factors has been shown to increase their accuracy?
B. being personally affected by or involved in the remembered event
Misleading questions asked after participants have witnessed an event:
A. influence participants' immediate reports of the event, as well as their recall of the event if they try to remember it sometime later

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