Test Bank for Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research, and Everyday Experience, 5th Edition, E.
Bruce Goldstein
Name: Class: Date: Chapter 07
1. Acquiring information and transforming it into long-term memory is
A. state-dependent learning
B. Encoding
C. memory consolidation
D. Transfer-appropriate processing.
2. Elaborative rehearsal of a word will LEAST likely be accomplished by
A. Repeating it over and over
B. Blinking the new word to a previously learned concept.
C. causing it in a sentence
D. thinking of its synonyms and antonyms
3. How would you describe the relationship between elaborative rehearsal and maintenance rehearsal
in terms of establishing long-term memories?
A. Elaborative is more effective than maintenance
B. Maintenance is more effective than elaborative
C. Both are equally effective in all learning circumstances
D. Each one is sometimes more effective, depending on the learning circumstances
4.Elementary school students in the United States are often taught to use the very familiar word
“HOMES” as a cue for remembering the names of the Great Lakes (each letter in“HOMES” provides a
first-letter cue for one of the lakes: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior). This memory procedure
usually works better than repeating the names over and over. The use of this familiar word provides an
example of
A. a self-reference effect
B. repetition priming
C. implicit memory
D. elaborative rehearsal
5. Which of the following scenarios best illustrates how effective or ineffective maintenance rehearsal is
in transferring information into long-term memory?
A. Sanjay recalls his grandmother’s house where he grew up, even though he hasn’t been there for
22 years
B. Ben learned his martial arts moves by making up “short stories” and mental images to describe
each movement
, C. Renee starred in the lead role of her high school play a few years ago. Although she helped write
the play and based her character on her own life, she cannot remember many of the actual lines
of dialogue anymore
D. Serena’s keys were stolen from her purse. She cannot give a detailed description of her keychain
to the police, even though she used it every day for three years
6. The maintenance rehearsal task of learning a word by repeating it over and over again is most likely to
A. lead to immediate decay due to retroactive interference
B. produce some short-term remembering, but fail to produce longer-term memories
C. cause sensory memories to interfere with consolidation in working memory
D. lead to effective autobiographical memories
7. According to the levels of processing theory, memory durability depends on the depth at which
information is
A. Encoded
B. Stored
C. Retrieved
D. Consolidated.
8. According to the levels of processing theory, which of the following tasks will produce the best long-
term memory fora set of words?
A. Making a connection between each word and something you’ve previously learned
B. Deciding how many vowels each word has
C. Generating a rhyming word for each word to be remembered
D. Repeating the words over and over in your mind
9. Which statement below is most closely associated with levels of processing theory?
A. Information enters memory by passing through a number of levels, beginning with sensory
memory, then short-term memory, then long-term memory
B. Events that are repeated enough can influence our behavior, even after we have forgotten the
original events
C. Deep processing involves paying closer attention to a stimulus than shallow processing and
results in better processing
D. People who were sad when they studied did better when they were sad during testing.
10. Which of the following learning techniques is LEAST likely to lead to deep processing of the
information?
A. Terrell is trying to understand how to use statistics by drawing associations between a set of
data describing how adolescents respond to peer pressure and the theories he learned last
semester in developmental psychology
Bruce Goldstein
Name: Class: Date: Chapter 07
1. Acquiring information and transforming it into long-term memory is
A. state-dependent learning
B. Encoding
C. memory consolidation
D. Transfer-appropriate processing.
2. Elaborative rehearsal of a word will LEAST likely be accomplished by
A. Repeating it over and over
B. Blinking the new word to a previously learned concept.
C. causing it in a sentence
D. thinking of its synonyms and antonyms
3. How would you describe the relationship between elaborative rehearsal and maintenance rehearsal
in terms of establishing long-term memories?
A. Elaborative is more effective than maintenance
B. Maintenance is more effective than elaborative
C. Both are equally effective in all learning circumstances
D. Each one is sometimes more effective, depending on the learning circumstances
4.Elementary school students in the United States are often taught to use the very familiar word
“HOMES” as a cue for remembering the names of the Great Lakes (each letter in“HOMES” provides a
first-letter cue for one of the lakes: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior). This memory procedure
usually works better than repeating the names over and over. The use of this familiar word provides an
example of
A. a self-reference effect
B. repetition priming
C. implicit memory
D. elaborative rehearsal
5. Which of the following scenarios best illustrates how effective or ineffective maintenance rehearsal is
in transferring information into long-term memory?
A. Sanjay recalls his grandmother’s house where he grew up, even though he hasn’t been there for
22 years
B. Ben learned his martial arts moves by making up “short stories” and mental images to describe
each movement
, C. Renee starred in the lead role of her high school play a few years ago. Although she helped write
the play and based her character on her own life, she cannot remember many of the actual lines
of dialogue anymore
D. Serena’s keys were stolen from her purse. She cannot give a detailed description of her keychain
to the police, even though she used it every day for three years
6. The maintenance rehearsal task of learning a word by repeating it over and over again is most likely to
A. lead to immediate decay due to retroactive interference
B. produce some short-term remembering, but fail to produce longer-term memories
C. cause sensory memories to interfere with consolidation in working memory
D. lead to effective autobiographical memories
7. According to the levels of processing theory, memory durability depends on the depth at which
information is
A. Encoded
B. Stored
C. Retrieved
D. Consolidated.
8. According to the levels of processing theory, which of the following tasks will produce the best long-
term memory fora set of words?
A. Making a connection between each word and something you’ve previously learned
B. Deciding how many vowels each word has
C. Generating a rhyming word for each word to be remembered
D. Repeating the words over and over in your mind
9. Which statement below is most closely associated with levels of processing theory?
A. Information enters memory by passing through a number of levels, beginning with sensory
memory, then short-term memory, then long-term memory
B. Events that are repeated enough can influence our behavior, even after we have forgotten the
original events
C. Deep processing involves paying closer attention to a stimulus than shallow processing and
results in better processing
D. People who were sad when they studied did better when they were sad during testing.
10. Which of the following learning techniques is LEAST likely to lead to deep processing of the
information?
A. Terrell is trying to understand how to use statistics by drawing associations between a set of
data describing how adolescents respond to peer pressure and the theories he learned last
semester in developmental psychology
