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The Internet, with its series of links from one site to many others, is a good analogy for the organization of ______________. short-term memory episodic memory long-term memory procedural memory |
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It’s Thanksgiving and the whole family has gotten together. You start to reminisce about your childhood and get into an argument with your brother. Both of you claim that you were the innocent victim of the other. This is an example of __________. constructive processing hindsight bias adaptation of memory traces flashbulb integration |
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In the curve of forgetting developed by Ebbinghaus, the greatest amount of forgetting occurs _____________. within the first hour after learning new material within the first day after learning new material near the end of the retrieval period near the middle of the retrieval period |
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Which of the following might be the most appropriate analogy for eidetic imagery? a table a modem a rainbow a photograph |
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Decay theory works well to explain forgetting in _________. sensory memory only short-term memory only long-term memory only sensory memory and short-term memory |
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People with Alzheimer’s disease typically have a memory problem known as ________. amygdaloid amnesia inferograde amnesia retrograde amnesia anterograde amnesia |
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Repeating items over and over in order to aid memory is known as ________ rehearsal. repetitive imagery elaborative maintenance |
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Short-term memories appear to be localized in the ________. occipital lobe cingulate gyrus amygdala prefrontal lobes |
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____________ is defined as an active system that receives information from the senses, organizes and alters information as it stores it away, and then retrieves the information from storage. Classical conditioning Operant conditioning Learning Memory |
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A display of 12 letters is flashed on a screen in front of you, followed by a tone. You attempt to recall a portion of the display based on the specific tone you heard. What aspect of your memory is this experiment designed to assess? primary memory sensory memory long-term memory short-term memory |
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_____________ memory is constantly updated. Procedural Declarative Semantic Episodic |
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Memories that concern events that are highly significant and are vividly remembered are called ______. eidetic images elaborative rehearsals flashbulb memories eyewitness images |
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Declarative memories are to _________ memories as procedural memories are to _________ memories. implicit; explicit explicit; implicit general knowledge; personal facts personal facts; general knowledge |
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A witness on the stand swears that he saw someone commit a crime. Must you believe that the testimony is valid when a witness testifies so forcefully? Yes, because seeing is believing. No, because eyewitnesses are not usually honest. Yes, because eyewitnesses are very confident about their testimony. No, because there is a great possibility of a "false positive" identification. |
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Which of these individuals would be the most typical person involved in a case in which memories of past childhood abuse are recalled later in life? thirty-year-old Charlotte, who sought therapy for anxiety, depression, and recent weight gain with a therapist who uses hypnosis thirty-year-old Steve, who sought therapy for symptoms that developed after serving in Desert Storm ten-year-old Willard, who was referred by a pediatrician for symptoms that appear to meet the diagnostic criteria for hyperactivity fifty-year-old Agnes, who fell, hit her head, and suddenly began remembering that her brother abused her sexually when she was eight years old |
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The best place to take your biology exam to ensure good retrieval of biology concepts is in ________. the biology classroom an auditorium to prevent cheating the English classroom the special testing room used for all exams |
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For which famous memory researcher is memory a problem-solving activity in which the problem is to give a coherent account of some past event, and the memory is the solution to that problem? Bartlett Meyer Ebbinghaus Skinner |
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