Question :
51.
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51.
Almost everybody has had the feeling of knowing the answer to a question, but not being quite able to say it. This is called the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon and is a failure of:
A.
retention.
B.
storage.
C.
retrieval.
D.
trace consolidation.
52.
Mickey is about to take his psychology finals. Just before the exam, the person sitting next to him asks him the name of the physiologist who worked on classical conditioning. Mickey suddenly realizes that he cannot quite remember the name, but he knows that it starts with a P and is two syllables long. Mickey is experiencing:
A.
repression.
B.
simple decay.
C.
retrograde amnesia.
D.
the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon.
53.
Why is it so difficult to retrieve information from long-term memory?
A.
The capacity of long-term memory is limited.
B.
The duration of long-term memories is limited.
C.
There is so much information being stored in long-term memory.
D.
The material that makes its way to long-term memory is temporary.
54.
A stimulus that facilitates the recall of information from long-term memory is called a:
A.
retrieval cue.
B.
flashbulb memory.
C.
conservation.
D.
chunking.
55.
An old song playing on the radio may remind you of events that occurred when the song was current. The song is acting as a(n):
A.
retrieval cue.
B.
mnemonic.
C.
flashbulb.
D.
schema.
56.
Chad is puzzling over a difficult question on a multiple-choice sociology test. He re-reads the question, scans the options beneath the question, and glances at other questions on the test. Most likely, Chad is looking for:
A.
mnemonics.
B.
flashbulb memories.
C.
retrieval cues.
D.
a miracle.
57.
Ralph is preparing a report on his academic field trip to a manufacturing plant. He is trying to remember each event of the trip in the order in which it occurred to prepare an accurate report in a presentable form. Which of the following memory tasks is Ralph using?
A.
Rehearsal
B.
Recognition
C.
Consolidation
D.
Recall
58.
Three-year-old Jane had learned the names of fruits from a picture book. She was taken to a grocery store and asked to identify apples and melons kept in the store. Which of the following memory tasks would be used by Jane to identify the fruits?
A.
Rehearsal
B.
Recognition
C.
Consolidation
D.
Recall
59.
“Discuss several factors that contributed to the economic collapse of late-2008,” asks a question in the midterm paper of an economics course. Such a question is a test of _____ memory.
A.
recall
B.
procedural
C.
recognition
D.
non-declarative
60.
_____ is a memory task in which individuals are presented with a stimulus and asked whether they have been exposed to it in the past or to identify it from a list of alternatives.
A.
Recall
B.
Recognition
C.
Rehearsal
D.
Chunk