Exam 2 Review Questions - Introduction to Psychology | PSYC 2000, Study notes of Psychology

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Review Questions

1. Priming

2. Déjà vu

3. Mood-congruent memory

4. Retrieval failure

Being in a bad mood after a hard day of work, Susan could think of nothing positive in her life. This is best explained as an example of:

1. Encoding failure

2. Storage failure

3. Retrieval failure

At your high school reunion you cannot remember the last name of your homeroom teacher. Your failure to remember is most likely the result of:

1. Proactive interference

2. Retroactive interference

3. Encoding failure

4. Storage failure

When Carlos was promoted, he moved into a new office with a new phone extension. Every time he is asked for his phone number, Carlos first thinks of his old extension, illustrating the effects of:

1. Proactive interference

2. Retroactive interference

3. Storage failure

4. Retrieval failure

After finding her old combination lock, Janice can’t remember the combination because she keeps confusing it with the combination of her new lock. She is experiencing: