A. encoding failure
B. the misinformation effect
C. retroactive interference
D. motivated forgetting
Related Mcqs:
- 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 __________________?
A. encoding failure
B. storage failure
C. retrieval failure
D. state-dependent memory - We are more likely to remember the words “typewriter, cigarette and fire” than the words “void, process and inherent” because the first three words are more likely to be _________________ encoded?
A. automatically
B. visually
C. proactively
D. implicitly - “I believed Ahmad’s anxiety and defensiveness are the result of an unrealistic self-image and an inability to take responsibility for her feelings.” This statement would most likely have been made by a:
A. psychodynamic theorist
B. Freudian therapist
C. humanistic psychologist
D. behavioristic theorist - Which theory would suggest that watching a horror movie late at night could lower your absolute threshold for sound as you subsequently tired to fall asleep?
A. Prime theory
B. Opponent process theory
C. Signal detection theory
D. Frequency theory - A woman met a car accident and after recovering, she cannot remember events right before the crash, it is called _________________?
A. anterograde amnesia
B. retrograde amnesia
C. anterograde interference
D. retrograde interference - After learning the combination for his new CNIC No. Mehboob is unable to remember the combination for his National Tax Number. Mehboob is experiencing the effects of ____________________?
A. encoding failure
B. state-dependent memory
C. retroactive interference
D. proactive interference - Although Cara has been obese for as long as she can remember, she is determined to lose excess body weight with a low-calories diet. Cara is most likely to have difficulty becoming and staying thin because:
A. the number of calories a person consumes daily has no effect on body weight
B. she may have a higher-than-average set point for body weight
C. her resting metabolic rate will increase and prompt her to over eat vigorous exercise
D. fat cells can be lost only with vigorous exercise - One of the most effective ways to remember information is to make personal sense of it. This process is called ________________?
A. maintenance
B. repetition
C. elaboration
D. chunking - Which memory holds a large amount of information for about 2 seconds?
A. tactile memory
B. echoic memory
C. iconic memory
D. short-term memory - Jamil and Qasim are identical twins, reared in different homes after their birth, due to the death of their parents. They are nineteen years of age and have personalities that differ sharply from each other. The reason of this difference in personality is most likely due to:
A. the two having identical genotypes
B. the environment
C. heredity
D. brain chemistry differences
