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91. When a witness reports many details about the scene of a crime, she is
A. not necessarily trustworthy because she might have missed important details about the criminal.
B. obviously someone with a superior memory who should be trusted..
C. likely to have paid close attention to everything and her testimony can be assumed to be accurate.
D. probably a motivated liar because crimes happen too quickly for people to process details.
92. Many death row inmates were convicted on the basis of eyewitness testimony; which of the following best represents what is known about that kind of testimony?
A. Eyewitness testimony is highly reliable.
B. Good and bad eyewitness testimony is evaluated accurately by juries.
C. Eyewitness testimony can be biased by the types of questions that are asked.
D. Eyewitness testimony is never reliable.
93. Felicia is studying for her Psychology 100 midterm. Because she studied so hard for the quizzes earlier in the semester, she finds it is taking her less time to relearn many of the concepts and terms. The difference between the amount of time it took Felicia to initially learn the material for the quizzes and the amount of time it is taking her to relearn the material for the midterm is known as
A. primacy.
B. mnemonics.
C. recency.
D. savings.
94. When Kevin took piano lessons as a child, it took him three weeks to learn to play the “Moonlight Sonata.” As an adult, when he decided to relearn the song in order to accompany his daughter’s performance at a dance recital, it took him only one week. The difference in Kevin’s learning time is called
A. secondary gain.
B. latent learning.
C. savings.
D. practice.
95. According to Ebbinghaus’s forgetting curve, most forgetting occurs within the first _____ after learning.
A. week
B. three days
C. twenty-four hours
D. nine hours
96. Jim took introductory psychology when he was a junior in high school. Now, as a college freshman, Jim finds that he doesn’t have to study as hard to understand the psychological concepts. To measure the savings from high school to college psychology, Jim might apply the
A. Brown-Peterson distractor technique.
B. PQ4R system.
C. relearning method.
D. encoding specificity principle.
97. You are driving down the street when you see a billboard displaying a phone number for a service you need. You keep repeating the number over and over so you won’t forget it until you can write it down at home. You do this to prevent the process of _____ from causing you to forget the number.
A. decay
B. construction
C. deductive interference
D. proactive inhibition
98. In one study, students studied nonsense syllables. Then some of these students carried on with normal waking activities, and others took naps. Those who took naps recalled more syllables, thus illustrating the effect _____ has on learning.
A. decay
B. conservation
C. interference
D. state-dependent learning
99. You see a phone number on television for a product you want to buy, but you can’t find a pencil to write it down. As you are trying to memorize the number, you see another number appear in the next commercial for a second product you want to buy. Suddenly you realize that you have forgotten the first number! This outcome is due to
A. decay.
B. proactive inhibition.
C. interference.
D. repression.
100. After watching this year’s Super Bowl, Tara finds it difficult to recall the events of last year’s Super Bowl. Tara is experiencing
A. decay.
B. the relearning method.
C. proactive inhibition.
D. retroactive inhibition.
