Question : 81. Blair asked a question during a game of Trivial Pursuit. : 1201957

81. Blair is asked a question during a game of Trivial Pursuit. The answer is on the tip of his tongue, but he can’t come up with it. Which of the following memory processes failed him? 
A. Encoding
B. Storage
C. Retrieval
D. Rehearsal

82. Al is on the witness stand. He is asked whether he can remember the name of the person who told him to place the bet. Al replies that he thinks the last name of the person starts with “C.” Al’s response is an example of 
A. penultimate response.
B. feeling-of-knowing experience.
C. spontaneous generalization.
D. tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon.

83. Doumitra is telling Carrie about a movie she saw last month. She knows that Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal both star in the movie and that it involves a scary bunny rabbit, but she cannot come up with the title of the movie. According to the textbook, such difficulty in retrieving information is known as 
A. incomplete knowledge.
B. spreading activation.
C. proactive inhibition.
D. retrograde amnesia.

84. When asked to describe an examination room at his doctor’s office, John seemed to do an accurate job. However, his description included a framed medical degree on the wall that in fact was not there. This is an illustration of 
A. context-specificity.
B. elaborative rehearsal.
C. constructive memory.
D. a retrieval cue.

85. Elijah takes his friend George to his favorite restaurant, which George has never been to.  Later that evening, Elijah asks George to recall everything that was in the restaurant.  George mistakenly “remembers” seeing things such as salt and pepper shakers on the tables and a cash register in the lobby.  George’s answer can best be explained by 
A. the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon.
B. the feeling-of-knowing experience.
C. constructive memory.
D. encoding specificity.

86. Your friend tells you that she just bought a cat. You naturally assume that your friend means that she bought a housecat rather than a lion or a tiger. This is an illustration of a(n) 
A. constructive memory.
B. spontaneous generalization.
C. implicit memory.
D. relearning method.

87. When you hear the phrase “birthday party,” you might start thinking of a cake, candles, presents, and balloons. These form part of your _____ for birthday parties. 
A. schema
B. sensory register
C. flashbulb memory
D. immediate memory span

88. Roxanne’s friend Darcy recently had her purse stolen while walking on the quad.  Although Darcy never specified the gender of her attacker, Roxanne later remembered the purse snatcher as being male.  Roxanne’s potentially erroneous assumption that the attacker was male is an example of a(n) _____, which is best explained by the _____ model of memory. 
A. feeling-of-knowing experience; levels-of-processing
B. spontaneous generalization; information-processing
C. spontaneous generalization; parallel distributed processing
D. incomplete knowledge; parallel distributed processing

89. Curly and Moe were questioned by the police about a car accident they had witnessed just a couple of hours ago. Curly was asked how fast the Ford was going when it smashed into the stop sign. Moe was asked how fast the Ford was going when it hit the stop sign. All else being equal, Moe will most likely remember that the Ford was going 
A. the same speed that Curly remembered.
B. slower than the speed that Curly remembered.
C. faster than the speed that Curly remembered.
D. over the speed limit.

90. Shania is in court being cross-examined about a car accident that she witnessed. If the defense attorney wants to manipulate Shania’s recall of the accident in favor of her client, which of the following questions would she be most likely to ask? 
A. “How fast was my client going when he hit the truck?”
B. “How fast was my client going when he made contact with the truck?”
C. “How fast was the defendant going when he slammed into the truck?”
D. “Although my client was issued a speeding ticket, do you think he was driving fast enough to do all that damage?”