Question: A your high school reunion you cannot remember the last name of your class teacher. Your failure to remember is most likely the result of __________________?

• 1. encoding failure
• 2. storage failure
• 3. retrieval failure
• 4. state-dependent memory

Question: The capacity of short-term memory can be increased through ________________?

• 1. chunking
• 2. attention
• 3. rehearsal
• 4. selective encoding

Question: Which of the following types of memory is most resistant to destruction?

• 1. episodic memory
• 2. metamemory
• 3. semantic memory
• 4. procedural memory

Question: A student who has studied German in high school, takes a course in French in college and now has trouble remembering the German. This is an example of the effects of __________________?

• 1. retroactive interference
• 2. proactive interference
• 3. state-dependent learning
• 4. encoding specificity

Question: A person’s memory of his wedding would be stored in _______________ memory?

• 1. semantic
• 2. autobiographical
• 3. metamemory
• 4. procedural

Question: Repeating a person’s name over and over immediately after being introduced is an example of _________________?

• 1. chunking
• 2. elaboration
• 3. a mnemonic device
• 4. maintenance rehearsal

Question: Which of the following is not a mnemonic device?

• 1. method of Loci
• 2. narrative chaining
• 3. elaborative rehearsal
• 4. key word method

Question: To help him remember the order of ingredients in difficult recipes, master chef Zakir often associates them with the route he walks to work each day. Zakir is using which mnemonic technique?

• 1. peg-word system
• 2. acronyms
• 3. the method of Loci
• 4. chunking

Question: Alan Baddeley is one of the leading figures in research on ________________?

• 1. working memory
• 2. implicit memory
• 3. semantic memory
• 4. procedural memory

Question: The type of memory with large capacity and brief duration is __________________?

• 1. sensory memory
• 2. short-term memory
• 3. working memory
• 4. long-term memory