Multiple Choice Quizzes

Take the quiz test your understanding of the key concepts covered in the chapter. Try testing yourself before you read the chapter to see where your strengths and weaknesses are, then test yourself again once you’ve read the chapter to see how well you’ve understood. 

1. In an associative model of memory, when are you most likely to recall a given idea?

  1. When you have stopped trying to recall the idea
  2. When you are simultaneously recalling a related idea
  3. When there are very few associative links to that idea
  4. When you create mnemonic devices to recall the idea

Answer:

b. When you are simultaneously recalling a related idea

2. About how many items of information may be held at the same time in short-term memory?

  1. 2
  2. 7
  3. 12
  4. Unlimited

Answer:

b. 7

3. About how many items may be held at the same time in long-term memory?

  1. 2
  2. 7
  3. 12
  4. Unlimited

Answer:

d. Unlimited

4. The process of “anchoring and adjustment,” prominent in Hastie’s Person Memory Model, accounts for:

  1. Online impression formation
  2. Memory-based impression formation
  3. Spontaneous impression formation
  4. All of the above

Answer:

a. Online impression formation

5. In which model of person memory are inconsistent behaviors more memorable?

  1. Hastie
  2. Srull-Wyer
  3. Macrae
  4. Both A and B

Answer:

d. Both A and B

6. In the long term, which behaviors are more memorable?

  1. Consistent
  2. Inconsistent
  3. Normative
  4. Extreme

Answer: 

a. Consistent

7. When are inconsistent behaviors not more memorable?

  1. In online impressions
  2. In memory-based impressions
  3. In abnormal physical surroundings
  4. In groups

Answer:

d. In groups

8. Priming effects in social cognition are sometimes explained by processes of which type of memory?

  1. Procedural memory
  2. Episodic memory
  3. Semantic memory
  4. All of the above

Answer:

a. Procedural memory

9. Procedural memory in social cognition can be said to be a form of:

  1. Declarative memory
  2. Implicit memory
  3. Conscious memory
  4. All of the above

Answer:

b. Implicit memory

10. When we form impressions of others, how do we process information about them?

  1. Serial processing
  2. Parallel processing
  3. Both A and B
  4. Neither A nor B

Answer:

c. Both A and B

11. A Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP) model, as opposed to a traditional associative network model, may be compared metaphorically to a:

  1. A time-and-temperature sign composed of lightbulbs
  2. A neon sign
  3. Either A or B, depending on the situation
  4. Neither A nor B

Answer: 

a. A time-and-temperature sign composed of lightbulbs

12. What forms of sensation and perception are involved in forming embodied memory?

  1. Vision
  2. Introspection
  3. Proprioception
  4. All of the above

Answer:

d. All of the above

13. When people nod their heads instead of shaking their heads, they are more likely to agree with an argument. This is an example of:

  1. Semantic memory
  2. Offline cognition
  3. Embodied cognition
  4. Both A and B

Answer:

c. Embodied cognition

14. How do we define the boundaries between everyday social categories?

  1. Most people generally agree on category breakpoints for situations and things, but not for people
  2. Most people generally agree on category breakpoints for people, but not for situations and things
  3. Everyday category definition is not possible because of the sheer number of different possible categorizations
  4. Everyday category definition is not possible because category members fall into fuzzy sets

Answer:

d. Everyday category definition is not possible because category members fall into fuzzy sets

15. What is the relationship between exemplar models and prototype models in social cognition?

  1. Exemplar models are better able to explain processes in person memory
  2. Prototype models are better able to explain processes in person memory
  3. Neither model is seen as “more correct,” but the models are mutually exclusive
  4. Both models have been integrated with each other

Answer:

d. Both models have been integrated with each other

 

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