CHAPTER10-QUIZ

Directions:
Select the BEST response alternative for each of the questions below.


1. What percentage of people are believed to experience déjà vu?
A) 0 percent
B) 50 percent
C) 60 percent
D) 100 percent
2. Which of the following is an example of a memory error?
A) Mistaking visual cues.
B) The misinformation effect.
C) Auditory memories of visual information.
D) All of the above.
3. What is cryptomnesia?
A) Unintentional plagiarism from thinking your idea is original when it is someone else's.
B) An accurate memory, but one that fades ("dies") quickly.
C) Amnesia about people who have died.
D) Waking up in a crypt but not knowing how or why you were there.
4. What is the order in which our brains store memory?
A) Sensory, Short-Term, Long-Term
B) Short-Term, Sensory, Long-Term
C) Sensory, Long-Term, Short-Term
D) Short-Term, Long-Term, Sensory
5. What kind of memory only lasts seconds to minutes?
A) Repressed memory.
B) Sensory memory.
C) Short term memory.
D) Observer memory.
6. What does deja vu mean (translate to)?
A) Already seen.
B) An experience.
C) Waking consciousness.
D) Repeated event.
7. What is the term used to describe that a person is more likely to believe a memory if it seems familiar and has been formed on the basis of repeated experience?
A) Deja vu
B) Implanted pseudo memories.
C) Illusion of the truth effect.
D) Imagination inflation.
8. Memories are most similar to:
A) Replays.
B) Historical Fictions.
C) Replica Accounts.
D) Distortions.
E) All of the above.
9. Which is not a type of memory?
A) Episodic Memory.
B) Seasonal Memory.
C) Short Term Memory.
D) Long Term Memory.
E) None of the above (all are types of memory).
10. Which is a type of memory error?
A) Cryptomnesia.
B) Information effect.
C) Misinformation Effect.
D) Both (a) and (c).
11. What is said to be often associated with Déjà vu?
A) Stress and Fatigue.
B) Premonitions.
C) An Ancestor's Memories.
D) Supernatural Entities.
E) All of the above.
12. Advertising techniques are often based on what type of memory?
A) Episodic memory.
B) Short-term memory.
C) Implicit memory.
D) Explicit memory.
13. Cryptomnesia refers to what type of memory error?
A) False memory error.
B) Source memory error.
C) Valid memory error.
D) Episodic memory error.
14. Which of the following is NOT a type of false memory?
A) Familiarity.
B) Imagination inflation.
C) Day dreaming.
D) Source monitoring error.
E) None of the above (all are types of false memories).
15. Who was Barney and Betty Hill?
A) They coined the term Barnum effect.
B) They discovered short-term and long-term memory.
C) They had recollections of being abducted by aliens.
D) They were famous psychologists that created repressed memory therapy.
16. Repressed memory therapy derives from ________'s belief that threatening memories are automatically repressed in the unconscious.
A) Ivan Pavlov
B) Carl Rogers
C) Sigmund Freud
D) Jean Piaget
17. Current memory theory focuses on ________, which is the most recently activated portion of memory.
A) Episodic Memory
B) Short-term Memory
C) Semantic Memory
D) Working Memory
18. Memory is usually very accurate, like a video recording or photograph.
A) True
B) False
19. Exposure to misleading information can lead to a distortion of recollections called:
A) the Misinformation Effect.
B) a False Memory.
C) Cryptomnesia.
D) Source Memory.
20. Repressed memory therapy has which of the following features?
A) Lack of accurate external corroborative evidence for a memory claim.
B) Use of imagery or hypnosis to evoke or enhance memories.
C) Instructions to recall after a time delay.
D) All of the above.
21. Being exposed to false information might result in:
A) remembering the information as familiar and concluding it as true.
B) a strong sense of the information being false.
C) confusion of what is true.
D) remembering the information as familiar and concluding it as false.


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