COOP Memory 5

Question 1

During sleep, the brain is thought to consolidate memories primarily during which stage?

Accepted Answer

Stage 3 NREM (slow-wave sleep)

Answer

Slow-wave (deep) sleep is associated with the transfer and consolidation of declarative memories into long-term storage.

Question 2

A student cannot remember anything from before age 3. This is explained by:

Accepted Answer

infantile amnesia

Answer

Infantile (childhood) amnesia refers to the normal inability to recall early childhood memories, likely due to immature hippocampal development.

Question 3

The method of loci memory technique involves:

Accepted Answer

associating items with specific locations along a familiar route

Answer

The method of loci (memory palace) places each item to remember at a distinct location along a mentally visualized familiar path.

Question 4

Which of the following represents a failure of ENCODING rather than retrieval?

Accepted Answer

Not noticing what color shirt someone was wearing during an event you witnessed

Answer

If information was never attended to and recorded in the first place, it cannot later be retrieved — this is an encoding failure.

Question 5

Maintenance rehearsal (repeating information over and over) is LESS effective for long-term retention than elaborative rehearsal because:

Accepted Answer

it does not connect new information to existing knowledge

Answer

Elaborative rehearsal links new material to existing knowledge, creating deeper and more durable memory traces than simple repetition.

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