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• 18. Jennie returned to her elementary school when she was visiting her parents from her home in a distant city. When she came to the school playground swing set, she suddenly remembered being thrown off a swing and breaking her arm. Jennie was experiencing a A) feeling of knowing. B) state-dependent memory. C) photographic memory. D) context-dependent memory. 19. Detective Rawlings asked Harry, a witness to a mugging, to mentally reconstruct the details of the incident before showing him the suspects in the line-up. In having Harry place himself at the scene of the crime, what principle was Rawlings using to facilitate accurate identification? A) feeling of knowing B) maintenance rehearsal C) context-dependent memory D) eyewitness testimony 20. In taking the position that only fill-in-the-blank tests are suitable for testing the knowledge of students, Professor Terry is mainly interested in measuring A) recognition. B) savings. C) relearning. D) recall. 21. The easiest type of memory test uses A) recognition. B) recall. C) reproduction. D) production. 22. In Ebbinghaus’s classic curve of forgetting, the greatest memory loss occurs A) slowly over a course of weeks. B) very slowly for a period of days, and then rapidly increases. C) at a consistent rate over weeks. D) most rapidly after the material is learned. 23. Forgetting that occurs because new information inhibits the retrieval of previously learned information or because previously learned information inhibits the retrieval of new information is explained by A) interference theory. B) decay theory. C) repression. D) displacement. 24. Which of the following is a physiological factor contributing to infantile amnesia? A) The structure of the limbic system does not mature until the age of 10. B) The hippocampus does not mature until about two years of age. C) The myelination of brain pathways is incomplete for the first few years of life. D) All of these. 25. In____ amnesia, there are memory lapses for the period following a trauma such as a blow to the head, electric shock, or a surgical operation. A) infantile B) anterograde C) dissociative D) retrograde 26. Research on the biology of memory involving the visual cortex of rats reared in stimulating environments and the stimulation of certain synapses in sea snails, such as Aplysia, suggest that A) the engram is generalized throughout the entire cortex. B) myelination is critical to memory formation in the brain. C) electrical circuits in the brain correspond to memory traces. D) memories may have neural correlates at specific sites. 27. Joe is a long-term alcoholic who has great difficulty storing new information in memory. What brain structure has likely sustained damage? A) prefrontal cortex B) auditory cortex C) hippocampus D) none of these 28. Which of the following would not be categorized as belonging to the same concept? A) vision B) taste C) speech D) smell 29. During language development, children exhibit overinclusion of instances within a category such as calling a tiger, a cat. This is referred to as A) overextension. B) underextension. C) overgeneralization. D) none of these. 30. Dr. Arndt, an experienced pediatrician, checked the baby’s temperature and listened to her breathing through the stethoscope while considering the symptoms described by the baby’s parents at the same time. Dr. Arndt was probably using ___ in making a diagnosis. A) a mental set B) systematic random search C) serial processing D) parallel processing 31. Experts are to parallel processing as novices are to ___. A) serial processing B) unipolar processing C) one-sided processing D) all of these 32. An optimist says the glass is half full, and the pessimist says it is half empty. Each of these points of view illustrates the A) representativeness heuristic. B) availability heuristic. C) anchoring and adjustment heuristic. D) power of divergent thinking. 33. Advertisers want you to choose their food product so they label it as 98% fat free rather than 12% of the calories coming from fat grams. The advertisers are using the ___ effect to influence your choice of purchase. A) algorithm B) framing C) anchoring D) anagram 34. For a communication system to involve the use of true language the following must be demonstrated. A) semanticity, plurality and displacement B) semanticity, infinite creativity and displacement C) serendipity, infinite creativity and displacement D) semanticity, infinite duplicity and displacement 35. The two sentences: “A rock sank the boat.” and “Don’t rock the boat.” use the word “rock” with different meanings or A) semantics. B) phonemes. C) morphemes. D) none of these.

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