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The importance of parallel processing is emphasized by a model of memory known as


A) LTP.
B) connectionism.
C) imagination inflation.
D) the peg-word system.

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After reading a newspaper report suggesting that drunken driving might have contributed to a recent auto accident, several people who actually witnessed the accident began to remember the driver involved as traveling more recklessly than was actually the case. This provides an example of


A) proactive interference.
B) state-dependent memory.
C) automatic processing.
D) the misinformation effect.

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In one experiment, participants primed with words related to ________ were less likely to help another person who asked for their help.


A) food
B) money
C) books
D) computers

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After having brain surgery to stop severe seizures, Henry Molaison could recall events he experienced prior to the surgery but was unable to form new conscious memories. Molaison's memory difficulty most clearly illustrates


A) retrograde amnesia.
B) proactive interference.
C) anterograde amnesia.
D) retroactive interference.

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


A) how long ago we learned that information.
B) the nature of our mood during encoding and retrieval.
C) whether the information is part of our implicit or explicit memory.
D) whether the information was semantically processed.

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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


A) retroactive interference.
B) retrograde amnesia.
C) source amnesia.
D) proactive interference.

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Another term for implicit memory is ________ memory.


A) iconic
B) short-term
C) nondeclarative
D) state-dependent

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Ebbinghaus' use of nonsense syllables to study memory led to the discovery that


A) the amount remembered depends on the time spent learning.
B) what is learned in one mood is most easily retrieved in that same mood.
C) information that is automatically processed is rarely forgotten.
D) our sensory memory capacity is essentially unlimited.

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Repression is an example of


A) encoding failure.
B) memory decay.
C) motivated forgetting.
D) all of these things.

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A lack of conscious memories of your first three years of life best illustrates


A) déjà vu.
B) source misattribution.
C) infantile amnesia.
D) the primacy effect.

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The letters Y, M, O, M, R, E are presented. Jill remembers them by rearranging them to spell the word "MEMORY." This provides an illustration of


A) chunking.
B) automatic processing.
C) the spacing effect.
D) the peg-word system.

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Damage to the hippocampus would most likely interfere with a person's ability to learn


A) to ride a bike.
B) to eat with a fork.
C) a classically conditioned fear response.
D) the names of newly introduced people.

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Which measure of memory did Ebbinghaus use to assess the impact of rehearsal on the retention of nonsense syllables?


A) recall
B) recognition
C) relearning
D) reconstruction

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You are most likely to automatically encode information about


A) politicians' names.
B) friends' birthdays.
C) new phone numbers.
D) the sequence of your day's events.

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After long-term potentiation has occurred


A) sending neurons release their neurotransmitters more easily.
B) it takes longer to process new information.
C) a receiving neuron's receptor sites are reduced.
D) you more readily forget facts that you once knew.

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Which of the following is a mnemonic that makes effective use of vivid imagery?


A) long-term potentiation
B) the spacing effect
C) the peg-word system
D) echoic memory

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Our assumptions about the past often influence the manner in which information is retrieved from long-term memory. This fact is most relevant to appreciating the importance of


A) long-term potentiation.
B) automatic processing.
C) memory construction.
D) the spacing effect.

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Experimenters gave people a list of words to be recalled. When the participants were tested after a delay, the items that were best recalled were those


A) at the beginning of the list.
B) in the middle of the list.
C) at the end of the list.
D) at the beginning and the end of the list.

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Which neural center in the limbic system helps process explicit memories for storage?


A) hypothalamus
B) basal ganglia
C) cerebellum
D) hippocampus

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Hermann Ebbinghaus discovered that the rate at which we forget newly learned information is initially


A) slow and subsequently stays slow.
B) slow and subsequently speeds up.
C) rapid and subsequently stays rapid.
D) rapid and subsequently slows down.

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