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Knowledge of Latin can help people to learn French.This best illustrates:

A) proactive interference.
B) memory reconstruction.
C) déjà vu.
D) positive transfer.

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Although Ron typically smokes two packs of cigarettes a day,he recalls smoking little more than a pack a day.This poor memory best illustrates:

A) the misinformation effect.
B) motivated forgetting.
C) imagination inflation.
D) storage decay.

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Question 123

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The famous Ebbinghaus forgetting curve indicates that how well we remember information depends on

As compared with long-term memory,short-term memory is ________ permanent and ________ limited in storage capacity.

Therapists who have used memory recovery techniques such as "guided imagery" and hypnosis have often led their clients to believe that difficulties remembering their experience of sexual abuse may result from:

In Alan Baddeley's model of working memory,focusing attention is the task of a hypothetical:

The disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of previously learned information is called

Dating partners who fall in love tend to ________ how much they liked each other when they first met.Dating partners who break up tend to ________ how much they liked each other when they first met.

Damage to the ________ is most likely to interfere with explicit memories of newly learned verbal information.Damage to the ________ is most likely to interfere with explicit memories of newly learned visual designs.

We long remember exciting or shocking events because of activation of the limbic system's:

Consciously recalling that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth best illustrates

The gradual fading of the physical memory trace contributes to:

Associating carrots with a mental image of a bun,milk with a mental image of a shoe,and paper towels with a mental image of a tree best illustrates:

Recalling a visual scene of last month's party and holding it in working memory would be most likely to activate the:

Without being aware of it,Kelsey encoded the exact locations on the basketball court from which she had taken each of her many shots during yesterday's tournament game.This best illustrates:

Research by Kandel and Schwartz on sea slugs indicates that memory formation is associated with the:

We encode implicit memories by means of:

Shelly was able to remember the names of three new class members for only a minute or two after they had been introduced to her.During this time their names were stored in her ________ memory.

The amygdala boosts activity in the brain's memory-forming areas when stimulated by:

Memory aids that involve the use of vivid imagery and clever ways of organizing material are called: