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Pysch Exam Chapter 8

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Chapter 8
SECTION 1
MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS:

1. Psychologists use the term _________ to refer to the ability to store and retrieve information over time. The process of acquiring and using knowledge is called ________.
a. learning; perception
b. memory; perception
c. learning; cognition
d. memory; cognition
Answer: d; Moderate

2. Psychologists use the term _________ to refer to the ability to store and retrieve information over time.
a. learning
b. memory
c. cognition
d. perception
Answer: c; Easy

3. The process of acquiring and using knowledge is called ________.
a. learning
b. cognition
c. sensation
d. perception
Answer: b; Easy

4. Which of the following scientists could be considered a cognitive psychologist?
a. Dr. …show more content…

Ms. Romero is discussing memory ______. Dr. Darby’s class is examining memory ________. Dr Eastwood is describing memory _________.
a. processes; types; stages
b. stages; processes; types c stages; types; processes
d. types; processes; stages
Answer: d; Difficult

14. Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between explicit memory and episodic memory?
a. Explicit memory is one type of episodic memory.
b. Episodic memory is one type of explicit memory.
c. Explicit memory and episodic memory are two different memory stages.
d. Explicit memory and episodic memory are the same thing.
Answer: b; Moderate

15. Having done “21 for 21” shots the night before, Deanna barely remembers her 21st birthday. That is, her _________ memory is sketchy.
a. procedural
b. semantic
c. episodic
d. working
Answer: c

16. Cory knows that the capital of Vermont is Montpelier. This is an example of a(n) _______ memory.
a. semantic
b. explicit
c. procedural
d. both A and B
Answer: d; Difficult

17. Knowing how to serve a badminton birdie is an example of a (n) ________ memory.
a. episodic
b. semantic
c. procedural
d. explicit
Answer: c; Moderate

18. Ron moved from Alabama to Georgia ten years ago. “My fifth-grade teacher made us memorize the names of all the counties in Alabama,” Ron tells his friend Rory. Rory tests Ron by giving him a list of thirty counties – 15 Alabama counties, mixed in with 15 counties from other

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