Unit 6 Ungraded review questions Can you explain

Unit 6: Ungraded review questions

Can you explain your answer? Use your fingers to indicate your answer: 1=A, 2=B, 3=C, 4=D. After viewing the question, show me your answer in 15 seconds. Next, turn to your neighbor and you have one minute to convince him/her that you are right.

Which of the following is a good analogy to long term memory? A. RAM B. Hard drive C. Library D. B and C

K. C. , who was injured in a motorcycle accident, remembers facts like the difference between a strike and a spare in bowling, but he is unaware of experiencing things like hearing about the circumstances of his brother's death, which occurred two years before the accident. His memory behavior suggests… A. intact semantic memory but defective episodic memory. B. intact procedural memory but defective semantic memory. C. intact episodic memory but defective semantic memory. D. intact episodic memory but defective procedural memory.

The primacy effect occurs because information presented first is more likely to be A. important. B. transferred to long term memory. C. in short term memory. D. distinct from later information.

The recency effect occurs because information presented last is more likely to be… (choose the best answer) A. Important B. transferred to long term memory. C. in short term memory D. distinct from earlier information.

_____memories are to experiences as _____ memories are to facts. A. Semantic; implicit B. Implicit; episodic C. Episodic; semantic D. Procedural; episodic

Semantic and episodic memories always work independently (choose the best answer). A. True. Patients who lost episodic memory can still keep their semantic memory, and vice versa. B. No. You can have personal semantic memory.

When the instructor tries to make matrix algebra fun, he is using _______ to motivate students so that they can pick up the computation procedures easily. A. priming B. conditioning C. procedural memory D. all of the above

When the advertiser bombards you with the same message, he might be manipulating you by _____ (choose the best answer). A. primacy effect B. recency effect C. priming D. product placement

How can you improve your learning and test performance? A. Encode and retrieve information in the same context. B. Encode and retrieve information in the same emotional state. C. Make semantic memory personal e. g. travel. D. All of the above