Psych 101 Quiz 2 Question and
answers 100% correct 2025/2026
Memory - correct answer ✔The nervous system's capacity to acquire/retain skills of knowledge.
Phases of Memory Processing - correct answer ✔Encoding, Storage, Retrieval
Encoding - correct answer ✔At the time of learning, brain changes info into neural code.
Storage - correct answer ✔Retention of Memory
Retrieval - correct answer ✔Reaching into memory storage
Equipotentiality - correct answer ✔Memory is stored throughout the brain
Role of Hippocampus - correct answer ✔Helps in starting new memories
Role of Temporal lobes - correct answer ✔Important for saying what you remember
Role of Cerebellum - correct answer ✔Important for dealing with how motor actions are learned,
remembered.
Role of amygdala - correct answer ✔Important for fear learning
Consolidation - correct answer ✔Strengthening of neural connections, construction of new synapses.
Creates lasting memories. Sleep helps consolidate memories.
, Shadowing - correct answer ✔Repeating only one message played.
Cognition - correct answer ✔Tools our minds use to think about stuff
Inattentional Blindness study (Mack and Rock) - correct answer ✔Subjects stared at a circle, it became
a triangle, most people didn't recognize it. It's easy to miss things if you aren't paying attention.
Study on University Red Square - correct answer ✔Placed a unicycling clown; 51% of people alone
noticed, 25% on phone, 60% with headphones, 71% with pair.
Castel, Vendetti, Holyoak - correct answer ✔Had participants come into hallway, asked where fire
extinguisher was. 61% did not know where it was. Upon exiting, 92% spotted it in 5 seconds.
Properties of Attention - correct answer ✔Limited and selective.
Serial processing - correct answer ✔Process information one step at a time, very slow, effortful
Parallel processing - correct answer ✔Many steps at the same time, fast, easy. Like seeing a dot in a sea
of lines.
Multitasking study by Redelmeier and Tibshirani - correct answer ✔Looked at data for 699 drivers who
had been in an accident; risk of accident 4x higher with phone. No benefit from hands free devices.
Strayer, Drews, Johnston study - correct answer ✔Tested in driving simulator with hands free, average
braking time is 780 ms, 912 ms with phone. 1/2 of subjects said it wasn't more difficult.
answers 100% correct 2025/2026
Memory - correct answer ✔The nervous system's capacity to acquire/retain skills of knowledge.
Phases of Memory Processing - correct answer ✔Encoding, Storage, Retrieval
Encoding - correct answer ✔At the time of learning, brain changes info into neural code.
Storage - correct answer ✔Retention of Memory
Retrieval - correct answer ✔Reaching into memory storage
Equipotentiality - correct answer ✔Memory is stored throughout the brain
Role of Hippocampus - correct answer ✔Helps in starting new memories
Role of Temporal lobes - correct answer ✔Important for saying what you remember
Role of Cerebellum - correct answer ✔Important for dealing with how motor actions are learned,
remembered.
Role of amygdala - correct answer ✔Important for fear learning
Consolidation - correct answer ✔Strengthening of neural connections, construction of new synapses.
Creates lasting memories. Sleep helps consolidate memories.
, Shadowing - correct answer ✔Repeating only one message played.
Cognition - correct answer ✔Tools our minds use to think about stuff
Inattentional Blindness study (Mack and Rock) - correct answer ✔Subjects stared at a circle, it became
a triangle, most people didn't recognize it. It's easy to miss things if you aren't paying attention.
Study on University Red Square - correct answer ✔Placed a unicycling clown; 51% of people alone
noticed, 25% on phone, 60% with headphones, 71% with pair.
Castel, Vendetti, Holyoak - correct answer ✔Had participants come into hallway, asked where fire
extinguisher was. 61% did not know where it was. Upon exiting, 92% spotted it in 5 seconds.
Properties of Attention - correct answer ✔Limited and selective.
Serial processing - correct answer ✔Process information one step at a time, very slow, effortful
Parallel processing - correct answer ✔Many steps at the same time, fast, easy. Like seeing a dot in a sea
of lines.
Multitasking study by Redelmeier and Tibshirani - correct answer ✔Looked at data for 699 drivers who
had been in an accident; risk of accident 4x higher with phone. No benefit from hands free devices.
Strayer, Drews, Johnston study - correct answer ✔Tested in driving simulator with hands free, average
braking time is 780 ms, 912 ms with phone. 1/2 of subjects said it wasn't more difficult.
