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Multiple Choice Questions
1. The first attempts to study forgetting scientifically were : 1252495
Multiple Choice Questions
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Which theory of forgetting is correctly matched with its description?
A. Decay—Information is lost over time as a result of nonuse.
B. Interference—Forgetting occurs when there are too few “triggers” to recall the information.
C. Cue-dependent—Forgetting occurs because other information in memory disrupts the retrieval of the information we are trying to remember.
D. Retroactive interference—Information learned earlier disrupts the recall of newer material.
8. Which of the following statements best describes the fate of the decay theory of forgetting in psychology?
A. It has been completely discredited as a theory of forgetting.
B. It is an incomplete theory of forgetting.
C. It has largely been affirmed as a theory of forgetting.
D. It has been supplanted by more contemporary theories of forgetting.
9. In _____ interference, information learned earlier disrupts the recall of information learned more recently; in _____ interference, recently learned information disrupts the recall of information learned earlier.
A. retroactive; proactive
B. proactive; retroactive
C. regressive; progressive
D. progressive; regressive
10. Owen has trouble remembering a friend’s new phone number; he keeps recalling the old number instead. Completing a rental application, Pippa finds she can’t recall one of her previous addresses, as she’s had several addresses since. Owen is experiencing _____ interference; Pippa is experiencing _____.
A. retrograde; anterograde interference
B. proactive; retroactive interference
C. proactive; proactive interference as well
D. retroactive; proactive interference
