exam 3-practice test VERIFIED 100% SOLUTIONS
1). Retrograde; anterograde
Ans: In _____ amnesia, memory is lost for events preceding an injury or accident; in
_____ amnesia, memory is lost for events following an injury or accident.
2). Speed of forgetting. (wrong)
Ans: Both Magdalena and Carl saw a shooting occur on their street. Police and
prosecutors do not want them to talk to each other before the trial due to the:
3). Proactive; retroactive
Ans: Owen has trouble remembering a friend's new phone number; he keeps recalling
the old number instead. Completing a rental application, Pippa finds that she can't recall
one of her previous addresses, as she's had several addresses since. Owen is
experiencing _____ interference, while Pippa is experiencing _____ interference.
4). She could use the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon to encourage participants to create new
details of events that never happened. (wrong)
Ans: Dr. Diaz is a social psychologist and she is running a study on rich false
memories. How might she encourage the development of these memories?
5). Retrograde interference; anterograde interference (wrong)
Ans: Edith has Alzheimer's disease and thus if doctors were to examine her brain they
would find _____ within her neurons and _____ between her neurons.
6). Slow to warm up.
Ans: Baby Brannon is not especially irritable. However, he deals poorly with changes in
his environment and with unfamiliar people. Brannon's temperament type is:
7). Peripheral
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, Ans: A cell phone manufacturer uses a famous pop singer to advertise its product to
teenagers. The company is relying on the _____ route to persuasion.
8). Internal (wrong)
Ans: Dennis assumed Alexa was late to their first date because she was stuck in traffic.
Dennis made a(n) _____ attribution about Alexa.
9). Think that the server is a generally clumsy person.
Ans: Iliana saw her server trip and drop a glass, which caused a huge scene when it
shattered on the floor. A fundamental attribution error will be for Iliana to:
10). Deindividuation (wrong)
Ans: As a child Julius was a child soldier the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and
engaged in violent acts. Children in the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) had a loss of
identity and personal responsibility. In other words, _____ occurred.
11). Deindividuation
Ans: Some people lose self-awareness and self-restraint during a large sporting event
or mob action. This is known as:
12). Between what a panel of experts predicted and what milgram had predicted. (wrong)
Ans: Milgram's original obedience study demonstrated levels of obedience:
13). 7, plus or minus 2
Ans: In the words of George Miller, the capacity of short-term memory is the "magical
number _____."
14). "the brain preserves information exactly as it was encoded while phone data, like photos,
can be edited." (wrong)
Ans: Gina's psychology professor has asked students to respond using an online
discussion forum and explain how human memory is different from the memory in her
phone. Gina writes:
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1). Retrograde; anterograde
Ans: In _____ amnesia, memory is lost for events preceding an injury or accident; in
_____ amnesia, memory is lost for events following an injury or accident.
2). Speed of forgetting. (wrong)
Ans: Both Magdalena and Carl saw a shooting occur on their street. Police and
prosecutors do not want them to talk to each other before the trial due to the:
3). Proactive; retroactive
Ans: Owen has trouble remembering a friend's new phone number; he keeps recalling
the old number instead. Completing a rental application, Pippa finds that she can't recall
one of her previous addresses, as she's had several addresses since. Owen is
experiencing _____ interference, while Pippa is experiencing _____ interference.
4). She could use the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon to encourage participants to create new
details of events that never happened. (wrong)
Ans: Dr. Diaz is a social psychologist and she is running a study on rich false
memories. How might she encourage the development of these memories?
5). Retrograde interference; anterograde interference (wrong)
Ans: Edith has Alzheimer's disease and thus if doctors were to examine her brain they
would find _____ within her neurons and _____ between her neurons.
6). Slow to warm up.
Ans: Baby Brannon is not especially irritable. However, he deals poorly with changes in
his environment and with unfamiliar people. Brannon's temperament type is:
7). Peripheral
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, Ans: A cell phone manufacturer uses a famous pop singer to advertise its product to
teenagers. The company is relying on the _____ route to persuasion.
8). Internal (wrong)
Ans: Dennis assumed Alexa was late to their first date because she was stuck in traffic.
Dennis made a(n) _____ attribution about Alexa.
9). Think that the server is a generally clumsy person.
Ans: Iliana saw her server trip and drop a glass, which caused a huge scene when it
shattered on the floor. A fundamental attribution error will be for Iliana to:
10). Deindividuation (wrong)
Ans: As a child Julius was a child soldier the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and
engaged in violent acts. Children in the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) had a loss of
identity and personal responsibility. In other words, _____ occurred.
11). Deindividuation
Ans: Some people lose self-awareness and self-restraint during a large sporting event
or mob action. This is known as:
12). Between what a panel of experts predicted and what milgram had predicted. (wrong)
Ans: Milgram's original obedience study demonstrated levels of obedience:
13). 7, plus or minus 2
Ans: In the words of George Miller, the capacity of short-term memory is the "magical
number _____."
14). "the brain preserves information exactly as it was encoded while phone data, like photos,
can be edited." (wrong)
Ans: Gina's psychology professor has asked students to respond using an online
discussion forum and explain how human memory is different from the memory in her
phone. Gina writes:
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