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Ron is about to leave his apartment.His keys are not on his dresser,where he usually leaves them.He starts to retrace his steps from the night before and realizes that he should look in the bathroom,as this was his first stop upon arrival.This reflects the process of ____.


A) mood congruent memory
B) encoding specificity
C) flashbulb memory
D) decay

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Lillian is cramming for her Latin exam.She must memorize vocabulary lists for Chapters 3 through 7 in her textbook by tomorrow morning.Which of the following best describes her recall of Chapter 5's vocabulary list compared to her friend Deb,who studied each chapter on the individual night assigned?


A) Her recall of Chapter 5 will be essentially the same as Deb's if their total amount of study time is similar.
B) Her recall of Chapter 5 will be worse than Deb's because of proactive and retroactive interference.
C) Her recall of Chapter 5 will be better than Deb's because of proactive interference.
D) Her recall of Chapter 5 will be worse than Deb's because of retroactive interference only.

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Gregory was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease,which produces degeneration in the basal ganglia.He likely will experience increasing difficulty with learning new ____ memories.


A) declarative
B) procedural
C) episodic
D) semantic

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Former members of a Girl Scout troop have gotten back in touch on Facebook.Verda reminds the others of their camping trip,where it rained for 3 days.Others share their memories of that weekend as well.What is most likely to happen to Verda's memories?


A) They remain essentially the same.
B) They are stored in a separate section of long-term memory from the memories of others.
C) They are overwritten by the memories shared by others.
D) They interact with others' memories and are re-encoded as new long-term memories.

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Martin has a very stunning memory of virtually everything that has happened to him since he was 4 years of age.He remembers the weather on his 6th birthday,the baseball card he got when he was 11 years old,and the color of the eyes of the girl who sat next to him in his sixth grade classroom.Martin remembers all of these details despite the fact that he is 53 years of age.Martin has a condition called ______.


A) major neurocognitive disorder
B) dissociative fugue disorder
C) pseudomnemonism
D) highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM)

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The hippocampus ____.


A) serves as a storage location for long-term memories
B) participates in the consolidation of semantic and location information into long-term memory
C) plays a role in procedural memory
D) is unrelated to the formation of spatial memories

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The "magic number 7 plus or minus 2" refers to the ____.


A) capacity of short-term memory
B) duration of short-term memory
C) duration of semantic memory
D) capacity of semantic memory

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Current research is revealing new relationships between sleep and memory formation.Discuss prior views and current research regarding the role of sleep.How might this apply to your own preparation for exams?

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Initially,many psychologists believed th...

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Which of the following statements regarding semantic memories is true?


A) Different patterns of activity in the cerebral cortex are correlated with various types of semantic memories.
B) A tool labeling task is associated with activity in the visual cortex of the occipital lobe,suggesting that we think about what a tool looks like in order to name it.
C) Damage to the prefrontal cortex can produce a condition known as source amnesia of certain semantic memories.
D) An animal naming task activates areas associated with hand movements,suggesting that we think about touching an animal in order to name one.

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Jeremy is saving selfies on his phone.How does the phone's memory store these files differently than Jeremy's memory?


A) The phone's memory storage receives the information and translates it into smaller chunks.
B) The phone's memory storage receives the information and stores an identical copy of the information.
C) The phone's memory storage receives and translates the information into a composite image.
D) The phone's memory storage receives the information and stores it semantically.

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A flashbulb memory is ____.


A) the detailed memory of a milestone event based on photographs
B) the limited memory of a negative event,as though blinded by the light
C) the intrusive memory of a traumatic event experienced by someone with PTSD
D) an especially vivid and detailed memory of an emotional event

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Mr.Antonini's former high-school Latin students are holding a 25-year reunion.He surprises them with a vocabulary game show quiz.His students most likely ____.


A) retained much of the vocabulary they knew in high school
B) forgot much of what they knew due to the passage of time
C) could remember about 35% of the vocabulary
D) found that they could not remember a thing

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The component of working memory that is responsible for verbal and auditory information is the _____.


A) visuospatial sketch pad
B) episodic buffer
C) central executive
D) phonological loop

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Which of the following is the most accurate statement regarding the relationship between negative emotions and memory?


A) Such emotions can enhance or impair memories.
B) Negative emotions can lead to disruption of retrieval cues.
C) Such emotions are almost guaranteed to lead to source monitoring errors.
D) Negative emotions enhance the encoding specificity effect.

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Which of the following is the best description of interference?


A) A decrease in the ability to remember a previously formed memory
B) The reduction in ability to retrieve rarely used information over time
C) A failure to retrieve negative or traumatic memories
D) Competition between newer and older information in memory

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Manuel is teaching his 3-year-old son Joey the alphabet song.Joey sings "A B C D H K G." This is an example of ____.


A) the recency effect
B) elaborative rehearsal
C) mnemonics
D) the primacy effect

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Both brains and computers have the ability to store memories,with one critical difference.What is this difference?


A) A brain stores exact copies of data,whereas a computer stores bits of data that are reconstructed later for use.
B) A computer's stored information is always retrievable,whereas a brain's stored information is frequently irretrievable.
C) A brain's stored information is always retrievable,whereas a computer's stored information is occasionally irretrievable.
D) A computer stores exact copies of data,whereas a brain stores bits of data that are reconstructed later for use.

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Discuss the benefits and hindrances of motivated forgetting and recall of repressed memories.

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Motivated forgetting can be beneficial h...

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An implicit memory for how to carry out a motor skill or action is called ____.


A) procedural memory
B) eidetic memory
C) declarative memory
D) retrograde memory

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Declarative memories are consciously retrieved memories that are easy to verbalize and include ____.


A) semantic,episodic,and autobiographical information
B) explicit and implicit memories
C) semantic,procedural,and autobiographical memories
D) nondeclarative and implicit aspects

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