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?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. Our inability to remember information presented in the seconds just before we fell asleep is most likely due to ____________________?

   A. encoding failure
   B. the misinformation effect
   C. retroactive interference
   D. motivated forgetting

3. 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

4. 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

5. __________________ is an inherent part of the scientific method.

   A. observation
   B. common sense
   C. reinforcement
   D. analysis

6. 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

7. If a neuron will not fire regardless of the amount of stimulation, it is most likely ____________?

   A. at its resting potential
   B. in its absolute refractory period
   C. an afferent neuron
   D. in its relative refractory period

8. Research participants were asked to identify a word that could be associated meaningfully with each of three other words. Solutions that occurred with sudden insight were accompanied by a burst of activity in the brain’s______lobe.

   A. front occipital
   B. left occipital
   C. left temporal
   D. right temporal

9. The local fire department sounds the 12 o’clock whistle. The process by which your ears convert the sound waves from the siren into neural impulses is an example of:

   A. Transduction
   B. Sensory adaptation
   C. Parallel processing
   D. Accommodation

10. Rais just came back from seeing a neurologist. Rais tells you that he will be having a test in which images of his brain will be recorded after radioactive chemicals have been injected into his chemicals have been injected into his bloodstream. However, Rais can’t remember the actual name of the test. it appears that his neurologist is planning:

    A. an electroencephalograph (EEG) recording
    B. a positron emission tomography (PET) scan
    C. a computerized tomography(CT) scan
    D. a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan