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Question 61

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Short-term memory capacity can be increased through:

A) iconic memory.
B) chunking.
C) echoic memory.
D) shallow processing.

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Question 62

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Explicit memories are:

A) classically conditioned associations that are automatically processed.
B) memories of physical skills such as how to ride a bike.
C) memories of facts and personal events that can be consciously retrieved.
D) memories that are formed by massed practice rather than by distributed practice.

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Question 63

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Mrs.Ramos claims to remember being sexually abused by her father when she was less than a year old.Her memory is NOT likely to be reliable because of:

Compulsive gamblers frequently recall losing less money than is actually the case.Their memory failure best illustrates

Peterson and Peterson demonstrated that unrehearsed short-term memories for three consonants almost completely decay in as short a time as:

The organization of individual items into larger familiar units is called:

An inability to access information in long-term memory is known as

Conscious memories of emotionally stressful events are especially likely to be facilitated by activation of the:

Memories are primed by

Among contemporary memory researchers,increasing numbers think that ________ rarely,if ever,occurs.

The neural storage of a long-term memory is called:

The network that processes and stores explicit memories includes the:

The semantic processing of the words in a short poem illustrates:

To help think about the processes involved in memory,some memory researchers have developed

Our two-track mind is most clearly illustrated by the difference between

Arnold so easily remembers his old girlfriend's phone number that he finds it difficult to recall his new girlfriend's number.Arnold's difficulty best illustrates

Which of the following types of memory is of shortest duration?

Which of the following has been suggested as an explanation for infantile amnesia?

Judy is embarrassed because she momentarily fails to remember a good friend's name.Judy's poor memory most likely results from a failure in

Researchers now recognize the active information processing that occurs in short-term memory and refer to it as ________ memory.