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Question 61

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Drew is unable to recall whether Lincoln's head faces left or right on the penny. Which of the following is the BEST explanation for Drew's memory failure? 

A) The information is difficult to retrieve, because it is stored along with so many other pieces of information in Drew's long-term memory.
B) The information was learned so long ago that it is no longer stored in Drew's long-term memory.
C) The information was not encoded, because Drew never really paid attention to Lincoln's head on the penny.
D) The information was immediately displaced from Drew's working memory after it was encoded.

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Question 62

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Massed practice refers to:

A) repeating information to oneself in order to remember it.
B) encoding and storing information using conscious effort.
C) studying for long periods of time without breaks.
D) connecting new information to information already in long-term memory.

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Question 63

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Mnemonic strategies facilitate retention by encouraging:

The textbook describes the case of Clive Wearing, who suffered a brain infection called encephalitis. After the infection, Clive could not retain new information for more than a few seconds. His memory process of _____ was impaired.

Maury remembers the first several companies he contacted in his job search, but not the next few; this exemplifies the recency effect.

Semantic and episodic memory are subdivisions of explicit memory.

Atkinson and Shiffrin developed the levels of processing framework of memory.

Match the psychologist(s) with the correct concept or theory.

Janna is puzzling over a fill-in-the-blank question on a sociology test. Answering the question correctly requires Janna to use her _____ memory.

According to the text, H.M.'s explicit memory was severely damaged, but his implicit memory was relatively normal. This means that H.M.'s ______ memory was probably impaired, but his _____ memory was largely intact.

Which option illustrates an elaborative rehearsal strategy?

After a severe bout of encephalitis, Clive Wearing could no longer develop new memories. Clive suffered from _____ amnesia.

Iconic memory is to echoic memory as _____ is to _____.

Which of the following statements BEST describes the relationship between iconic and echoic memory on the one hand, and sensory memory on the other?

In the working memory model, the central executive is part of the episodic buffer.

In the information-processing model of memory, _____ memory can be described as "high capacity, long duration."

Define a) encoding; b) storage; and c) retrieval. Draw an analogy between each of these memory processes and an action one might perform when one uses one's computer. Supply an example of each process from your experience studying for your college courses.

The question on the midterm in an economics course is "Discuss several factors that contributed to the economic collapse of late 2008." This question is a _____ test of _____ memory.

Compared to iconic memory, echoic memory:

In one study described in the textbook, participants who experienced a 15-minute period of waking rest showed better retention of newly learned material than did participants who played a game for 15 minutes (Dewar, et al., 2012) . In this study, the _____ variable is _____.