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Maintenance rehearsal is defined as:

A) processing the physical features of the stimulus to be remembered.
B) analyzing new material in order to make it memorable.
C) associating new material to be learned with information maintained in long-term memory.
D) repeating some bit of information over and over in one's head in order to maintain it in short-term memory.

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Infant memories are mostly implicit and,therefore,difficult to bring into conscious awareness.When children become more verbal,their explicit memories become more dominant.

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Long ago,during the early days of television,when a television set was turned off it took a while for the last image that was on the screen to fade away.This phenomenon is most like _______________ memory.

A.R.Luria studied a mnemonist with phenomenal memory.This person had several problems associated with the ability.Which problem was identified in your textbook?

The best place to take your math exam to ensure good retrieval of math concepts is in the:

Proactive interference pertaining to the study of memory refers to:

Patients with anterograde amnesia were taught to solve the Tower of Hanoi problem.It was later found that they:

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?

The mnemonic "always first,always last but never in-between" best describes which memory principle or functions?

Shalissa has two exams today.One is in French and the other is in history.Last night she studied French before history.When she gets to her French test,all she can remember is history! Shalissa's memory is suffering from:

Stephen Truscott was wrongly convicted for the murdered of a 14-year-old-girl.Truscott's case demonstrates concerns about:

Evidence suggests that short-term memories are stored in the:

Using the partial report method,Sperling found the capacity of iconic memory to be around:

Which type of memory allows us to have meaningful conversations?

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?

An example of a testing format that uses memory recognition is:

Janie is taking an exam in her history class.On the exam there is a question that asks her to state and discuss the five major causes of the Trans-Caspian War (whatever that was!) .Janie remembers four of them.She knows there is a fifth and can almost remember it; she knows that it is something like Texas.Janie is walking down the stairs,when all of a sudden,she remembers that the fifth point is taxes,but it is too late.Janie was suffering from:

Memories for general facts and personal information are called _________ memories.

As memories get older,they are most likely to:

Studies have found that the best way to overcome the tip-of-the-tongue effect to: