Gen Psych Chapter 7 Quiz well
answered to pass
Nora and Miles are studying for an exam. Nora makes flash cards to memorize new terms and
repeatedly reads them to herself. Miles links new terms to the ones he already knows based on
their meanings. Nora is using ________ and Miles is using ________ to learn the terms. -
correct answer ✔✔ Maintenance rehearsal; elaborative rehearsal
a person who is unable to process memories with strong emotional content may have poor
functioning in the - correct answer ✔✔ amygdala
Which of the following is a type of implicit memory? - correct answer ✔✔ procedural memory
Chris is looking for his friend in a crowd of people at a concert. As he scans the crowd, he often
blinks but still retains a brief visual image of many of the faces in the crowd for a very brief time.
Chris is able to maintain this visual information due to the function of his - correct answer ✔✔
sensory storage
George Miller discovered that short-term memory is limited to ________ plus or minus
________ items, or chunks of information. - correct answer ✔✔ seven;two
a person who has experienced the loss of past memories may be experiencing - correct answer
✔✔ retrograde amnesia
If you study in the same room in which you take an exam, you will probably do better on the
exam than if you had studied elsewhere. This outcome occurs because of ________ memory. -
correct answer ✔✔ context-dependent
answered to pass
Nora and Miles are studying for an exam. Nora makes flash cards to memorize new terms and
repeatedly reads them to herself. Miles links new terms to the ones he already knows based on
their meanings. Nora is using ________ and Miles is using ________ to learn the terms. -
correct answer ✔✔ Maintenance rehearsal; elaborative rehearsal
a person who is unable to process memories with strong emotional content may have poor
functioning in the - correct answer ✔✔ amygdala
Which of the following is a type of implicit memory? - correct answer ✔✔ procedural memory
Chris is looking for his friend in a crowd of people at a concert. As he scans the crowd, he often
blinks but still retains a brief visual image of many of the faces in the crowd for a very brief time.
Chris is able to maintain this visual information due to the function of his - correct answer ✔✔
sensory storage
George Miller discovered that short-term memory is limited to ________ plus or minus
________ items, or chunks of information. - correct answer ✔✔ seven;two
a person who has experienced the loss of past memories may be experiencing - correct answer
✔✔ retrograde amnesia
If you study in the same room in which you take an exam, you will probably do better on the
exam than if you had studied elsewhere. This outcome occurs because of ________ memory. -
correct answer ✔✔ context-dependent
