Dr. Sharp is writing an exam. He decides that for some material it is most important that students can recognize the correct answer and distinguish it from distractors. What format should be used to test recognition?

Which of the following fits with the cognitive hypothesis explaining why people experience a reminiscence bump? The reminiscence bump occurs because

Research on depth of processing suggests that thinking about meaning is the best way to encode information. What does research on transfer appropriate processing suggest?

As we get further away from events, some memories become things we know happened rather than thing we actually remember happening. This is known as _____.

In Bransford and Johnson’s (1972) study, participants heard a strangely worded passage and then had to recall as much of it as possible. In which condition did participants remember the most?

When previously learned information competes with our ability to take in and remember new information, we are experiencing which of the following?

After getting hit on the field in the middle of a play, a football player can’t remember the moments before the incident and has difficulty recalling what happened earlier in the day and even parts of the prior day. What is the most likely explanation?

Which of the following describes the results of Jenny Saffran’s (1996) experiments on statistical learning with infants?

The two-string problem and the candle problem are used to demonstrate which of the following?

Becky is in a busy coffee shop. She is able to engage in a conversation with her girlfriend and filter out all of the noise and other conversations around her. This is known as