PSY 316 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS ALL CORRECT
A participant is trying to memorize the word "parade." To help herself, she thinks about
the word within a complicated sentence: "From their third-floor apartment, they had a
great view of all the bands, the cowboys, and the floats in the Thanksgiving parade."
This learning strategy will produce - Answer- excellent memory performance because
the strategy requires attention to meaning and provides many memory connections.
Which of the following is an example of a question that leads to deep processing? -
Answer- What is the meaning of the word "tantalizing"?
Herbert says, "I can't figure out where I've seen that person before, but I know that I
have seen her before!" Herbert lacks source memory, but has a sense of _____. -
Answer- familiarity
A researcher hypothesizes that high doses of caffeine can produce context-dependent
learning. To confirm this hypothesis, the researcher would need to show that - Answer-
if participants study the material while drinking a great deal of coffee, they will
remember the material better if they drink a great deal of coffee while taking the
memory test.
Theories of spreading activation assume that activating one node will lead to - Answer-
activation of all nodes connected to the one that was activated at first.
If you perceive a stimulus and then later perceive the same stimulus again, you are
likely to perceive the stimulus more quickly and more easily the second time. This
benefit can be described as a(n) - Answer- increase in processing fluency.
Which of the following statements is an example of a recognition test? - Answer- "Which
one of these individuals is the person you saw at the party?"
A broad pattern of what is normal in a situation is called a ____. - Answer- schema
A great deal of forgetting may be caused by an inability (perhaps temporary) to locate
target information that is stored in memory. This sort of forgetting is called______. -
Answer- retrieval failure
ANSWERS ALL CORRECT
A participant is trying to memorize the word "parade." To help herself, she thinks about
the word within a complicated sentence: "From their third-floor apartment, they had a
great view of all the bands, the cowboys, and the floats in the Thanksgiving parade."
This learning strategy will produce - Answer- excellent memory performance because
the strategy requires attention to meaning and provides many memory connections.
Which of the following is an example of a question that leads to deep processing? -
Answer- What is the meaning of the word "tantalizing"?
Herbert says, "I can't figure out where I've seen that person before, but I know that I
have seen her before!" Herbert lacks source memory, but has a sense of _____. -
Answer- familiarity
A researcher hypothesizes that high doses of caffeine can produce context-dependent
learning. To confirm this hypothesis, the researcher would need to show that - Answer-
if participants study the material while drinking a great deal of coffee, they will
remember the material better if they drink a great deal of coffee while taking the
memory test.
Theories of spreading activation assume that activating one node will lead to - Answer-
activation of all nodes connected to the one that was activated at first.
If you perceive a stimulus and then later perceive the same stimulus again, you are
likely to perceive the stimulus more quickly and more easily the second time. This
benefit can be described as a(n) - Answer- increase in processing fluency.
Which of the following statements is an example of a recognition test? - Answer- "Which
one of these individuals is the person you saw at the party?"
A broad pattern of what is normal in a situation is called a ____. - Answer- schema
A great deal of forgetting may be caused by an inability (perhaps temporary) to locate
target information that is stored in memory. This sort of forgetting is called______. -
Answer- retrieval failure
