PSYCH 1F03 Exam ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Which of the following is most likely to be remembered? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The
5th word on a list of 50, when asked to go home for night before recall
Which of the following best exemplifies a source-monitoring error - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Alec met Bella at a party; he knew she looked very familiar so he assumed
she was in one of his classes. Later that night while on social media, he realized that he had
actually seen her in his friend's pictures right before the party
Which of the following scenarios best identifies the advantage of chunking? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Aspects of our internal and external environment are encoded along with the
information we are trying to remember
Mohinder is designing an experiment where she will show participants a word and they will
be asked a specific question about that word. They are given a surprise recall task/ Which is
the following conditions should Mohinder predict will perform best of this memory task? -
CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The participants are asked to create a complete and semantically
correct sentence using the word
How do we best explain the occurrence of false memories? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Through reconstructive nature of memory and the high likelihood that new
information can be incorporated during recall
How can the primacy effect be improved? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Increase the time in
which an item from the list is presented
Which is the best description of the "becoming famous overnight" experience? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Those who completed the pronunciation task 24h before the fame-rating task
attributed the feeling of fluency to fame
Marty has been a chef for over ten years, and has made thousands of different recipes.
Surprisingly Marty has never made pizza in his life which explains why when a client asks
Marty to make pizza, he insists that he has made several pizzas throughout his career? -
CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Misinformation effect
, Which of the following correctly describes flashbulb memories? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Despite an individual's confidence that the vivid memory is accurate,
flashbulb memories are often inaccurate
Which of the following is not a function of elaborative rehearsal and frequent review? -
CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Longer retention in short term memory
According to multistage model, what factors determines if a memory is transferred in long
term? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Amount of rehearsal
Which of the following techniques can increase short term memory capacity for a group of
words? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Chunk different words together
What did the primacy and recent effects provide evidence for? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Distinct long term and short term memory stores
Which of the following would result in an improved primacy effect and diminished recent
effect in the serial position curve? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The words are presented at a
slower pace followed by some simple math problems before recall
What do the results of Roediger and Karpicke's study of studying versus testing suggest? -
CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Regarding information will produce better results on a short-
term test, while practice testing will increase long-term memory
Erica needs to study for her cumulative weekly psychology quizzes, but is petrified at the
amount of information she has to know; what do you most recommend she do when
studying? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Using deep processing mnemonics
Which best supports the false fame effect? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A non-famous but
familiar name is misattributed to being a famous name if the subject doesn't recall the correct
origin of familiarity
What makes false memories possible? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Memory is a
reconstructive process that does not reproduce memories exactly as they were encoded
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Which of the following is most likely to be remembered? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The
5th word on a list of 50, when asked to go home for night before recall
Which of the following best exemplifies a source-monitoring error - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Alec met Bella at a party; he knew she looked very familiar so he assumed
she was in one of his classes. Later that night while on social media, he realized that he had
actually seen her in his friend's pictures right before the party
Which of the following scenarios best identifies the advantage of chunking? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Aspects of our internal and external environment are encoded along with the
information we are trying to remember
Mohinder is designing an experiment where she will show participants a word and they will
be asked a specific question about that word. They are given a surprise recall task/ Which is
the following conditions should Mohinder predict will perform best of this memory task? -
CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The participants are asked to create a complete and semantically
correct sentence using the word
How do we best explain the occurrence of false memories? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Through reconstructive nature of memory and the high likelihood that new
information can be incorporated during recall
How can the primacy effect be improved? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Increase the time in
which an item from the list is presented
Which is the best description of the "becoming famous overnight" experience? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Those who completed the pronunciation task 24h before the fame-rating task
attributed the feeling of fluency to fame
Marty has been a chef for over ten years, and has made thousands of different recipes.
Surprisingly Marty has never made pizza in his life which explains why when a client asks
Marty to make pizza, he insists that he has made several pizzas throughout his career? -
CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Misinformation effect
, Which of the following correctly describes flashbulb memories? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Despite an individual's confidence that the vivid memory is accurate,
flashbulb memories are often inaccurate
Which of the following is not a function of elaborative rehearsal and frequent review? -
CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Longer retention in short term memory
According to multistage model, what factors determines if a memory is transferred in long
term? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Amount of rehearsal
Which of the following techniques can increase short term memory capacity for a group of
words? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Chunk different words together
What did the primacy and recent effects provide evidence for? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Distinct long term and short term memory stores
Which of the following would result in an improved primacy effect and diminished recent
effect in the serial position curve? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The words are presented at a
slower pace followed by some simple math problems before recall
What do the results of Roediger and Karpicke's study of studying versus testing suggest? -
CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Regarding information will produce better results on a short-
term test, while practice testing will increase long-term memory
Erica needs to study for her cumulative weekly psychology quizzes, but is petrified at the
amount of information she has to know; what do you most recommend she do when
studying? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Using deep processing mnemonics
Which best supports the false fame effect? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A non-famous but
familiar name is misattributed to being a famous name if the subject doesn't recall the correct
origin of familiarity
What makes false memories possible? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Memory is a
reconstructive process that does not reproduce memories exactly as they were encoded
