Retrieval-induced forgetting refers to which memory-based phenomenon?

A. People remember practiced information better than unpracticed information
B. People remember unpracticed information better than practiced information
C. People remember names better than faces
D. People remember faces better than names

Why some participants read an ambiguous passage about a woman, Nancy in a doctor’s office, which psychological of their recall of the information from the passage?

A. Imagined memories of the event
B. Expectations about recalling the passage at a later time
C. Expectations about nancy’s condition
D. Pre-existing knowledge about people named nancy

Which of the following was NOT the case in Bower et al.’s (1969) research into the role of organized hierarchical information in memory?

A. Presenting the words in meaningful hierarchies reduced the learning time to a quarter of that required for the same words randomly positioned.
B. The organization of the hierarchy emphasized aspects of the words meanings.
C. The hierarchy identified three different levels of information processing.
D. The organization of the hierarchy simplified the learning of the lists.

why is it so difficult to make generalizations about memory and the brain? Select the answer that is NOT correct?

A. Because remembering is a complex process.
B. Because remembering involves most other cognitive aspects of a person.
C. Because remembering involves most other emotional aspects of a person.
D. Because so much of the body is active when someone is remembering.

We know that a common distinction is made between explict and implicit memory. But which one of the following does NOT accurately reflect one of these terms?

A. Explicit memory involves conscious awareness of the original information or the situation in which the learning occured.
B. Implicit memory refers to an influence on behaviour, feelings or thoughts as a result of prior expeience,
C. Explicit memory involves recollection of the original information or experience that is subsequently recalled.
D. Implicit memory involves a conscious recollection of the original events.

How would a constructive approach to memory explain the differences in two people’s reported memories for the same shared event?

A. People have different memory capabilities and so make different errors.
B. People have different verbal abilities and vocabularies and so would report their memory differently, even though their actual memory were the same.
C. Peoples have different motivations and so will not all equally hard; they will report exactly what occurred, but they will leave different parts out.
D. People have different past experiences, values and goals and so will experience different events, even when the external event in the same.

Cued recall involves which one of the following?

A. Bringing information to mind in responses to non-specific cues.
B. Bringing information to mind in responses to specific cues.
C. Identifying information provided at test time as having been encountered previously.
D. Responding differently to previously encountered information than to new information.

Which behaviours provide evidence for memory in humans?

A. recognition
B. familarity
C. unconscious influences
D. recall

What is the first step in the scientific method?

A. Reviewing the literature
B. Defining the problem
C. Formulating a testable hypothesis
D. Selecting the research design and then collecting and analyzing the data

Which of the following theories is not macro nature?

A. Functionalism
B. Marxism
C. Feminism
D. Interactionism