Chapter 09

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Question 1

The term "Childhood amnesia" was coined by:

a) Piaget

b) Skinner

c) Freud

d) Bandura

Question 2

Which of these has not been cited as a cause of childhood amnesia?

a) Development of a sense of self

b) Development of the occipital lobes

c) Development of language

d) Blocking of unacceptable impulses

Question 3

The "rouge on the nose" procedure tests:

a) Face perception

b) Early memory

c) Development of language skills

d) Visual self recognition

Question 4

At what age did Legerstee et al. find infants' recognition of their own face:

a) 5 months

b) 8 months

c) 12 months

d) 15 months

Question 5

Simcock & Hayne's "magic shrinking room" tested what?

a) Later verbal report of an event sequence

b) Symbolic development

c) Understanding of scale models

d) Parent-child interactions

Question 6

Infantile amnesia is:

a) The same as Childhood amnesia

b) Infants' inability to remember any past event

c) More rapid forgetting in infancy than in later life

d) Rapid forgetting in the preverbal stage of infancy

Question 7

Which of these procedures has not been used to test memory development in infants?

a) Operant conditioning

b) Gaze following

c) Habituation procedures

d) Deferred imitation

Question 8

Recall memory is measured in:

a) Visual paired comparisons (VPC) tasks

b) Deferred imitation

c) Habituation

d) Gaze following and pointing

Question 9

Recognition memory is measured in:

a) Deferred imitation

b) Shrinking room tasks

c) Gaze following and pointing

d) Visual paired comparisons (VPC) tasks

Question 10

In Rovee-Collier's operant conditioning tasks18-month-olds exhibit retention for:

a) 3 weeks

b) 6 weeks

c) 13 weeks

d) 30 weeks

Question 11

In Herbert et al.'s study deferred imitation task 9-month-olds exhibited retention for:

a) 1 day

b) 2 days

c) 3 days

d) 4 days

Question 12

Behavioral studies reveal that infant memory:

a) Develops in a general to specific manner

b) Can be highly specific

c) Develops in a specific to general manner

d) Is disrupted in a mobile conjugate reinforcement task

Question 13

Important brain regions involved in memory include:

a) The cerebellum

b) The occipital cortex

c) The medial temporal lobe

d) The fusiform gyrus

Question 14

In monkeys the entorhinal cortex matures after which age?

a) 3 months from conception

b) 6 months from conception

c) Birth

d) 3 months from birth

Question 15

Soon after birth infants recognize their mother's:

a) Face, smell and voice

b) Face only

c) Face and smell

d) Face and voice

Question 16

The mother's face is learned soon after birth if:

a) The infant sees it for more than a total of 10 minutes

b) The infant sees it moving

c) The infant hears her voice while seeing her face

d) The infant makes eye contact regularly

Question 17

Reaching and grasping an object with one hand develops between:

a) 2 and 4 months

b) 5 and 8 months

c) 9 and 10 months

d) Around 12 months

Question 18

Bahrick and Pickens suggest that visual preferences following habituation:

a) Change from novelty to null to familiarity

b) Change from familiarity to null to novelty

c) Change from familiarity to null

d) Change from novelty to null

Question 19

A declarative memory is:

a) Memory for habits

b) Memory for a conversation

c) Memory for skills

d) Memory for events and facts

Question 20

Charles Nelson suggests that in primates:

a) Declarative memory is present at birth

b) Procedural memory is present at birth

c) Declarative and procedural memory both develop 3 months after birth

d) Declarative and procedural memory are both present in some form at birth

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