Robert does not recognize the police officer that came to the door last month to tell him that his ...

Robert does not recognize the police officer that came to the door last month to tell him that his dog had been killed by a car. Robert's lapse of memory can probably best be explained in terms of:
 
  a. the fan effect
  b. interference
  c. construction error
  d. repression

Ques. 2

Jenny is taking a quiz, which asks for the chemical symbols of 20 elements. She remembers 19 of them but cannot remember the symbol for mercury. As she walks home from school, she suddenly remembers that the symbol for mercury is Hg. Jenny's memory problem during the quiz can best be explained in terms of:
 
  a. decay
  b. repression
  c. construction error
  d. failure to retrieve

Ques. 3

Ms. Iwata has a long-term goal for her science studentsto consider what they have learned about science as they deal with issues and problems in their daily lives. Which one of the following teaching strategies will best help her students retrieve relevant scientific principles in situations where the principles might be applied?
 
  a. Teach students how to take good notes about classroom subject matter.
  b. Associate those principles with as many real-life situations as possible.
  c. Maximize the use of concrete materials, and minimize the use of abstract ideas.
  d. Maximize the use of abstract ideas, and minimize the use of concrete materials.

Ques. 4

Psychologists have offered three of the following as possible explanations for the phenomenon of infantile amnesia. Which one have they not suggested?
 
  a. Infants have virtually no working memory capacity.
  b. Most of what infants learn takes the form of implicit rather than explicit knowledge.
  c. Infants cannot yet talk about their experiences and so have trouble encoding them in forms that are easily retrieved.
  d. Infants' brains are insufficiently mature to think about things in the ways that older children and adults do.

Ques. 5

Nora was thinking about something else the day her teacher explained the difference between the words between and among, so she has trouble using these two prepositions correctly. Nora's problem remembering the difference between the words can probably best be explained as:
 
  a. failure to retrieve
  b. construction error
  c. failure to store
  d. repression

Ques. 6

To remind her 6-year-old son Steven to bring his umbrella home from school, a mother pins a piece of paper with a picture of an umbrella to Steven's jacket collar. Steven's mother is helping him remember the umbrella through the use of:
 
  a. a script
  b. the fan effect
  c. an external retrieval cue
  d. implicit knowledge

Ques. 7

Which one of the following examples best illustrates a problem with prospective memory?
 
  a. Meredith can't remember anything that happened in the few minutes before she was in an automobile accident.
  b. Marcus forgets to keep the appointment he made with his teacher after school.
  c. Juan can't recall something his teacher told him because he was thinking about something else while she was talking to him.
  d. Chloe sees a person she knows she has met before, but she can't remember the person's name.