The _____ is involved in encoding and transferring new explicit memories to long-term memory.

A.
cerebellum
B.

amygdala

C.

hippocampus

D.

prefrontal cortex

If its amygdala is removed, a monkey:

A. loses the ability to encode new long-term memories.
B. has

complete amnesia for previously learned classically conditioned

responses.
C. shows the classic symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.
D. loses

its fear of snakes and other natural predators.

After being presented with a list of 30 random words, Jennifer was asked to recall as many words
as she could. In recalling the words, Jennifer remembered groups of related words, such as harp,
flute, and piano. Jennifer's pattern of answers during recall demonstrates:
A.
the serial position effect.
B.

the self-reference effect.

C.

clustering.

D.

autobiographical memory.

According to Ebbinghaus's research:

A memories are distributed throughout the brain.
.
B
.
C
.

all new information will eventually be forgotten.

the most rapid forgetting of new material occurs relatively soon after
the material is originally learned.
D encoding failure is the chief cause of most forgetting.
.

Richard can recall very specific and vivid details of the day his son was born. Richard's memory
of this very emotional, personal event in his life is an example of what is called:
A.
iconic memory.
B.

an implicit memory.

C.

prospective memory.

D.

a flashbulb memory.

The tip-of-the-tongue experience is a common example of:

A.

the misinformation effect.

B.

retrieval failure.

C.

encoding failure.

D.

the serial position effect.

After living in Canada for many years, Shu Fang returned for a visit to Seoul, Korea. As she
walked through the neighborhood where she grew up, her mind was flooded with memories of
her childhood. The environmental cues that helped trigger Shu Fang's memories illustrate:
A.
imagination inflation.
B.

prospective memory.

C.

the context effect.

D.

mood congruence.

Psychologist Stephen Lindsay and his colleagues (2004) had participants look at their
first-grade class photo and read a description of a prank they were led to believe they
had committed in the first gradeputting Slime in the teacher's desk. Compared to the
participants who did not look at their first-grade class photo, the participants who did
look at their first-grade photo were:
A. much more likely to believe they had committed the prank.
B. much

more likely to insist that the prank had actually been committed
by a classmate.
C. much less likely to believe they had committed the prank.
more likely to blame their classmates for persuading them to commit
the prank.
Conner vividly remembers details from earlier in the day when a highway patrolman mistakenly
pulled him over to arrest him for armed robbery. Conner's memory of this event is stored in his:
A.
sensory memory.
D
.

B.

short-term memory.

C.

iconic memory.

D.

long-term memory.

The _____ is especially prominent when you have to engage in a serial recall task, such as
remembering a list of items in their original order.
A.
recency effect
B.

primacy effect

C.

context effect

D.

misinformation effect