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Question 1:

Which of the following terms is used to describe the retrieval of information from memory and its dependence on how it was first stored in memory?
a) The principle of encoding specificity
b) Jost’s law of forgetting
c) The principle of memory specification
d) Top-down processing

Question 2:

What type of memory refers to personally experienced events?
a) Anoetic
b) Noetic
c) Episodic
d) Semantic

Question 3:

Semantic memory can be described falls under what type of consciousness?
a) Autonoetic
b) Noetic
c) Anoetic
d) Procedural

Question 4:

Researchers have suggested that episodic memory does not develop until around which of the following age ranges?
a) 2–4 years of age
b) 4–6 years of age
c) 6–8 years of age
d) 8–10 years of age

Question 5:

Which of the following is true of implicit memory?
a) It doesn’t exist.
b) It is memory without semantic awareness.
c) It is memory without episodic awareness.
d) It can only be demonstrated under conditions of divided attention.

Question 6:

Our sense of smell is connected with our memory.
a) True
b) False

Question 7:

Mind popping refers to an episodic memory that pops into your mind without semantic context.
a) True
b) False

Question 8:

The component of working memory that stores linguistic information is called the visual-spatial sketchpad.
a) True
b) False

Question 9:

The episodic buffer is a component in working memory that moves information to and from episodic and long-term memory.
a) True
b) False

Question 10:

Studying in the location where you will take the exam should help to improve your score, simply by being in the same context.
a) True
b) False

Higher Education

Cognition, Fifth Edition: Chapter 6