Package Title: Testbank
Course Title: Real World Psychology
Chapter Number: Chapter 7
Question Type: Multiple-Choice
1) This is an internal record or representation of some prior event or
experience.
a) intellect
b) cognition
c) memory
d) perception
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
Section Reference: The Nature of Memory
Learning Objective 7: 1.1: Describe the major memory models and strategies
for improving short- and long-term memory.
APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology
1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
2) The organization and shaping of information during processing, storage,
and retrieval of memories is called .
a) encoding
b) a memory process
c) a constructive process
d) a pneumonic process
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
Section Reference: The Nature of Memory
Learning Objective 7: 1.1: Describe the major memory models and strategies
for improving short- and long-term memory.
APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology
1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
3) You commit the details of your high school graduation to memory, but
later find out that your memory is not fully accurate concerning this event.
,This is primarily due to .
a) encoding
b) a memory process
c) a constructive process
d) a pneumonic process
Answer: c
Difficulty: Medium
Section Reference: The Nature of Memory
Learning Objective 7: 1.1: Describe the major memory models and strategies
for improving short- and long-term memory.
4) The three steps in memory processing are .
a) encoding, storage, retrieval
b) translations, maintenance, transmittal
c) dictation, capturing, retrieval
d) encrypting, sensory retention, neural processing
Answer: a
Difficulty: Medium
Section Reference: The Nature of Memory
Learning Objective 7: 1.1: Describe the major memory models and strategies
for improving short- and long-term memory.
APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology
1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
5) In a computer model of memory, would happen at the keyboard,
on the monitor, and on the hard drive.
a) retrieval; storage; encoding
b) encoding; storage; retrieval
c) storage; encoding; retrieval
d) encoding; retrieval; storage
Answer: d
Difficulty: Medium
Section Reference: The Nature of Memory
Learning Objective 7: 1.1: Describe the major memory models and strategies
for improving short- and long-term memory.
APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology
1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
,1.3 Describe applications of psychology
Goal 2: Scientific Inquiry and Critical Thinking
2.3 Engage in innovative and integrative thinking and problem solving
6) Processing information into the memory system is called .
a) dictation
b) encoding
c) translation
d) encrypting
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
Section Reference: The Nature of Memory
Learning Objective 7: 1.1: Describe the major memory models and strategies
for improving short- and long-term memory.
APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology
1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
7) With regard to memory, the process of retaining information over time is
known as .
a) maintenance
b) capturing
c) sensory retention
d) storage
Answer: d
Difficulty: Easy
Section Reference: The Nature of Memory
Learning Objective 7: 1.1: Describe the major memory models and strategies
for improving short- and long-term memory.
APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology
1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
8) The three storage systems included in the traditional memory model are
.
a) sensory, perceptual, and factual
b) semantic, episodic, and long-term
c) sensory, short-term, and long-term
d) conscious, unconscious, and preconscious
, Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
Section Reference: The Nature of Memory
Learning Objective 7: 1.1: Describe the major memory models and strategies
for improving short- and long-term memory.
APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology
1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
9) In the three-stage memory model, which of the following is the correct
memory pathway?
a) sensory memory—short-term memory—long-term memory
b) short-term memory—long-term memory—perceptual memory
c) sensory memory—perceptual memory—working memory
d) sensory memory—short-term memory—long-term memory—perceptual
memory
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
Section Reference: The Nature of Memory
Learning Objective 7: 1.1: Describe the major memory models and strategies
for improving short- and long-term memory.
APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology
1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
1.3 Describe applications of psychology
Goal 2: Scientific Inquiry and Critical Thinking
2.3 Engage in innovative and integrative thinking and problem solving
10) According to the three-stage memory model, information must first enter
memory, and transfer to memory, and then to memory to
be retained in our memory systems.
a) sensory; short-term; permanent
b) short-term; sensory; long-term
c) sensory; short-term; long-term
d) working; short-term; permanent
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
Section Reference: The Nature of Memory
Course Title: Real World Psychology
Chapter Number: Chapter 7
Question Type: Multiple-Choice
1) This is an internal record or representation of some prior event or
experience.
a) intellect
b) cognition
c) memory
d) perception
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
Section Reference: The Nature of Memory
Learning Objective 7: 1.1: Describe the major memory models and strategies
for improving short- and long-term memory.
APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology
1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
2) The organization and shaping of information during processing, storage,
and retrieval of memories is called .
a) encoding
b) a memory process
c) a constructive process
d) a pneumonic process
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
Section Reference: The Nature of Memory
Learning Objective 7: 1.1: Describe the major memory models and strategies
for improving short- and long-term memory.
APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology
1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
3) You commit the details of your high school graduation to memory, but
later find out that your memory is not fully accurate concerning this event.
,This is primarily due to .
a) encoding
b) a memory process
c) a constructive process
d) a pneumonic process
Answer: c
Difficulty: Medium
Section Reference: The Nature of Memory
Learning Objective 7: 1.1: Describe the major memory models and strategies
for improving short- and long-term memory.
4) The three steps in memory processing are .
a) encoding, storage, retrieval
b) translations, maintenance, transmittal
c) dictation, capturing, retrieval
d) encrypting, sensory retention, neural processing
Answer: a
Difficulty: Medium
Section Reference: The Nature of Memory
Learning Objective 7: 1.1: Describe the major memory models and strategies
for improving short- and long-term memory.
APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology
1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
5) In a computer model of memory, would happen at the keyboard,
on the monitor, and on the hard drive.
a) retrieval; storage; encoding
b) encoding; storage; retrieval
c) storage; encoding; retrieval
d) encoding; retrieval; storage
Answer: d
Difficulty: Medium
Section Reference: The Nature of Memory
Learning Objective 7: 1.1: Describe the major memory models and strategies
for improving short- and long-term memory.
APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology
1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
,1.3 Describe applications of psychology
Goal 2: Scientific Inquiry and Critical Thinking
2.3 Engage in innovative and integrative thinking and problem solving
6) Processing information into the memory system is called .
a) dictation
b) encoding
c) translation
d) encrypting
Answer: b
Difficulty: Easy
Section Reference: The Nature of Memory
Learning Objective 7: 1.1: Describe the major memory models and strategies
for improving short- and long-term memory.
APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology
1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
7) With regard to memory, the process of retaining information over time is
known as .
a) maintenance
b) capturing
c) sensory retention
d) storage
Answer: d
Difficulty: Easy
Section Reference: The Nature of Memory
Learning Objective 7: 1.1: Describe the major memory models and strategies
for improving short- and long-term memory.
APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology
1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
8) The three storage systems included in the traditional memory model are
.
a) sensory, perceptual, and factual
b) semantic, episodic, and long-term
c) sensory, short-term, and long-term
d) conscious, unconscious, and preconscious
, Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
Section Reference: The Nature of Memory
Learning Objective 7: 1.1: Describe the major memory models and strategies
for improving short- and long-term memory.
APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology
1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
9) In the three-stage memory model, which of the following is the correct
memory pathway?
a) sensory memory—short-term memory—long-term memory
b) short-term memory—long-term memory—perceptual memory
c) sensory memory—perceptual memory—working memory
d) sensory memory—short-term memory—long-term memory—perceptual
memory
Answer: a
Difficulty: Easy
Section Reference: The Nature of Memory
Learning Objective 7: 1.1: Describe the major memory models and strategies
for improving short- and long-term memory.
APA Goal 1: Knowledge Base in Psychology
1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology
1.3 Describe applications of psychology
Goal 2: Scientific Inquiry and Critical Thinking
2.3 Engage in innovative and integrative thinking and problem solving
10) According to the three-stage memory model, information must first enter
memory, and transfer to memory, and then to memory to
be retained in our memory systems.
a) sensory; short-term; permanent
b) short-term; sensory; long-term
c) sensory; short-term; long-term
d) working; short-term; permanent
Answer: c
Difficulty: Easy
Section Reference: The Nature of Memory
