Associating a list of items you need to remember with a sequence of specific places is called __________________?

Related Mcqs:

1. In contrast to a dissimilar-items list, a similar-items list is __________________?

   A. more difficult to learn
   B. easier to learn
   C. learned with equivalent ease
   D. more susceptible to the serial position effect

2. 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

3. The tendency to immediately recall the first and last items in a list better than the middle items is known as the ___________________ effect?

   A. next-in-line
   B. misinformation
   C. serial position
   D. spacing

4. Consider this sequence: (1) food, (2) salivation with food (3) light with food, (4) salivation with light. This procedure for presenting stimuli and observing responses with dogs is based on Pavlov’s experiments, and represents which sequence of classical conditioning?

   A. Unconditioned stimulus, conditioned response, conditioned stimulus, unconditioned response
   B. Conditioned stimulus, conditioned response, unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response
   C. Unconditioned stimulus, conditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, conditioned response
   D. Unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, conditioned stimulus, conditioned response
   E. Conditioned response, conditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, unconditioned stimulus

5. Hearing a sequence of sounds of different pitches is to______as recognizing the sound sequence as a familiar melody is to:

   A. Sensory interaction; feature detection
   B. Sensation; perception
   C. Absolute threshold; difference threshold
   D. The just noticeable difference; accommodation

6. Words, events, places and emotions that trigger our memory of the past are called __________________?

   A. context effects
   B. iconic traces
   C. retrieval cues
   D. schemas

7. Rasheed watches as customer with at least 40 items lines up at his express checkout line. He decides the customer must be a real “idiot” to miss the sign that indicates Rasheed’s checkout line is an express line with a limit of 10 items. Rasheed’s attribution for the cause of the customer’s behavior is consistent with_________?

   A. drawing an illusory correlation
   B. false consensus effect
   C. the fundamental attribution error
   D. a defensive attribution

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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