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Explicit memories are stored in the part of the brain called the

A) cerebellum.
B) amygdala.
C) temporal lobe.
D) prefrontal cortex.

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Becca is trying to teach her 3-year-old son Cole how to ride a bicycle.Although she knows how to ride a bike,Becca is having a hard time verbalizing the steps to her son.Becca is struggling with trying to explain her ________ memory of riding a bike.

A) episodic
B) semantic
C) short-term
D) procedural

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Lisa is driving to school when she sees a yellow traffic light ahead of her.According to the three-part memory storage system,Lisa will first maintain information about the yellow light in her

Memory is an imperfect record of everything we see and experience primarily because our

Ashley studies for her upcoming psychology exam while sitting on her sunny front porch.When she takes the exam in a dimly lit lecture hall,she does poorly on the exam.Which of the following could have influenced her ability to recall the necessary exam information?

You vividly remember where you were when you heard about the Boston Marathon bombing.What you remember is a(n) ________ memory and you are likely to be ________ a memory for an ordinary event.

Chris is looking for his friend in a crowd of people at a concert.As he scans the crowd,he often blinks but still retains a brief visual image of many of the faces in the crowd for a very brief time.Chris is able to maintain this visual information due to the function of his

Travis is taking a new medicine that has a side effect of disrupting his short-term storage.Based on this fact,you know that Travis will have difficultly recalling

After a plane crash,Shera wakes up in a hospital and can remember everything about her life prior to the crash.However,every time her doctor visits,she believes she has never met him before.Based on this information,the doctor will most likely diagnose Shera with

Remembering how to ice skate is most likely an example of ________ memory.

Describe memory span.With what type of storage is it associated? Describe one strategy that you can use to expand your memory span,and give one example of how you could use this strategy in your own life.

In memory,the storage phase of information processing lasts

Joffrey's wife asked him to go to the store and buy milk,bacon,apples,juice,butter,and cereal.Joffrey did not write down the items,and ended up only remembering to buy milk and bacon at the store.The fact that Joffrey only remembered milk and bacon demonstrates the ________ effect.

You study Spanish during high school but then take Portuguese when you are in college.Now,whenever you try to remember a word in Spanish,you can only remember that word in Portuguese.This effect is most likely due to

People find it very easy to put on a button-down shirt but much harder to write down the steps involved in putting on a button-down shirt.This difference suggests that ________ memory is typically an ________ memory.

Yolanda has a brain tumor.As the tumor gets bigger,Yolanda can no longer form new memories in long-term storage.Yolanda most likely has ________ amnesia.

In an experiment,you are asked to memorize a list of 30 words.At first,this seems like a challenging task.Then you remember that you can hold more words in short-term storage if you

Describe anterograde amnesia.If a person had anterograde amnesia,how would it affect his or her implicit and explicit memories? Give an example of an implicit and explicit memory (one example of each).

Reveille just got a new bank account password: 979tamu.She repeats the code over and over,keeping the information maintained in short-term storage by using

Which of the following is a type of explicit memory?