91. Middle-aged Mrs. Lovett is recalling her first Christmas as a young newlywed at her in-laws' Wyoming ranch. This is a(n) _____ memory.
A. procedural
B. implicit
C. autobiographical
D. nondeclarative
92. Which of the following best encapsulates autobiographical memory?
A. Autobiographical memory is just as inaccurate as other types of memory are. The different periods of one's life are remembered with equal ease.
B. Autobiographical memory is just as inaccurate as other types of memory are. Some periods of one's life are recalled more easily than are others.
C. Autobiographical memory is more accurate than other types of memory are. The different periods of one's life are remembered with equal ease.
D. Autobiographical memory is more accurate than other types of memory are. Some periods of one's life are recalled more easily than are others.
93. One's culture is most likely to influence:
A. short-term memory capacity.
B. the structure of long-term memory.
C. the strategies one uses to recall information from long-term memory.
D. the structure of procedural memory.
94. With respect to the potential influence of a written language on the recall ability of a culture's members, research has:
A. revealed that a written language tends to decrease people's memory ability.
B. shown that a written language tends to increase people's memory ability.
C. revealed that a written language probably has little influence on people's memory ability.
D. not yielded a definitive conclusion as of yet.
95. The first attempts to study forgetting scientifically were made by the German psychologist:
A. Hermann Ebbinghaus.
B. Wilhelm Wundt.
C. Ernst Heinrich Weber.
D. Georg Elias Muller.
96. Which of the following statements best describes the forgetting function that Ebbinghaus discovered?
A. Material is forgotten at a relatively constant rate once it has been learned.
B. Nothing is ever really forgotten.
C. Material is forgotten at a relatively slow rate at first, then the rate of forgetting speeds up.
D. Material is forgotten relatively rapidly at first, then the rate of forgetting slows down.
97. Which of the following best describes the results of Ebbinghaus's work on forgetting?
A. You'll remember what you learn pretty well for a day or two, but then you'll begin rapidly forgetting the material.
B. Beginning immediately, you'll slowly forget what you've learned at a relatively constant rate.
C. You'll forget most of it right away, and you'll keep on forgetting more of it, though at a slower rate.
D. I forget.
98. Jerry is at a party. He is introduced to three different people in the span of a moment. Later, he is approached by the first person he met and cannot remember her name. Which of the following is most likely the source of Jerry's difficulty?
A. Jerry failed to encode the woman's name.
B. Jerry's working memory capacity was exceeded by the number of people he met.
C. Jerry experienced interference in retrieving the woman's name.
D. Jerry failed to rehearse the woman's name sufficiently.
99. Drew is unable to recall whether Lincoln's head faces left or right on the penny. Which of the following is probably the best explanation for Drew's memory failure?
A. The information is difficult to retrieve, because it is stored along with so many other pieces of information in Drew's long-term memory.
B. The information was learned so long ago that it is no longer stored in Drew's long-term memory.
C. The information was not encoded, because Drew never really paid attention to Lincoln's head on the penny.
D. The information was immediately displaced from Drew's working memory after it was encoded.
100. Which of the following is the best reason that we have trouble remembering the license plate number of a car that we just passed ten minutes ago?
A. Working memory lasts only a minute or so.
B. License plate numbers are too difficult to remember easily.
C. We probably never encoded the number in the first place.
D. The memory, though present, is too difficult to retrieve except under special circumstances, such as hypnosis or substantial amounts of stress.