Question 1

After Maya gave her friend the password to a protected website, the friend was able to remember it only long enough to type it into the password box. In this instance, the password was clearly stored in her ______ memory.

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short-term memory

Question 2

Mr. Nydam suffers amnesia and is unable to remember playing golf several times each week on a particular course. Yet the more he plays the course, the more his game improves. His experience illustrates the need to distinguish between...

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explicit memory and implicit memory

Question 3

Another term for implicit memory is

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non-declarative memory

Question 4

Mentally rehearsing the glossary definitions of unfamiliar terms in order to remember them for a later test illustrates

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effortful processing

Question 5

Employing the single word HOMES to remember the names of North America\'s Five Great Lakes best illustrates the use of

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a mnemonic technique

Question 6

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

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deep processing

Question 7

Which of the following is central to the processing of procedural memories?

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basal ganglia

Question 8

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

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amygdala

Question 9

Which of the following is believed to be the synaptic basis for learning and memory?

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long-term potentiation

Question 10

At a block party, Cyndi is introduced to eight new neighbors. Moments later, she can only remember the names of the first three and the last two neighbors. Her experience illustrates

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the serial position effect

Question 11

After suffering from a brain injury in a motorcycle accident, Arotza cannot form new memories. He can, however, remember events before the accident. Arotza\'s memory difficulty most clearly illustrates

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anterograde amnesia

Question 12

The happier Judie is, the more readily she recalls positive life experiences. This best illustrates that emotional states can become

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retrieval cues

Question 13

During her evening Spanish language exam, Janica so easily remembers the French vocabulary she studies that morning that she finds it difficult to recall the Spanish vocabulary that she rehearsed that afternoon. Her difficulty best illustrates

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proactive interference

Question 14

Mrs. McBride can\'t consciously recall how frequently she criticizes her children because it would be too anxiety-arousing to do so. Sigmund Freud would have suggested that her poor memory illustrates

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repression

Question 15

After Teresa was verbally threatened by someone passing in a car, she was asked whether she recognized the man who was driving. Several hours later, Teresa mistakenly recalled that the driver was a male rather than a female. This best illustrates

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the misinformation effect

Question 16

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

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working

Question 17

When you hear familiar words in your native language, it is virtually impossible not to register the meanings of the words. This best illustrates the importance of

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automatic processing

Question 18

Which of the following is most likely to be stored as an implicit memory?

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a mental image of one\'s best friend

Question 19

When you have to make a long-distance call, dialing an unfamiliar area code plus a seven-digit number, you are likely to have trouble retaining the just-looked up number. This best illustrates the limited capacity of_____ memory

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short-term memory

Question 20

Combining individual letters into familiar words enables you to remember more of the letters in this sentence. This best illustrates the value of

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chunking

Question 21

Which of the following questions about the word depressed would best prepare you to correctly remember tomorrow that you have seen the word on this quiz?

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How well does the word describe you?

Question 22

Having read a story once, certain amnesia victims will read it faster the second time even though they can\'t recall having seen the story before. They have most likely suffered damage to the

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hippocampus

Question 23

Many people can easily recall exactly what they were doing when they first learned of the death of a close friend or family member. This best illustrates ______ memory

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flashbulb

Question 24

A measure of your memory in which you need to pick the correctly learned answer form a displayed list of options is known as a measure of

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recognition

Question 25

Activating memories of your childhood by forming vivid mental images of various locations in your childhood home best illustrates

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priming

Question 26

Whenever Valeri experiences intense feelings of fear, she is overwhelmed with childhood memories of her abusive parents. Valerie\'s experience best illustrates

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mood-congruent memory

Question 27

The gradual fading of the physical memory trace contributes to

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storage decay

Question 28

While taking the final exam in American history, Marie was surprised and frustrated by her momentary inability to remember the name of the current president of the United States. Her difficult most clearly illustrates

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retrieval failure

Question 29

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

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motivated forgetting

Question 30

Several months after watching a science fiction movie about spaceship travel and alien abductions, Steve began to remember that he had been abducted by aliens and personally subjected to many of the horrors in the movie. His mistaken recall best illustrates

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source amnesia

Question 31

Anterograde Amnesia

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an inability to form new memories

Question 32

Automatic Processing

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unconscious encoding of incidental information, such as space, time, and frequency, and of well-learned information, such as word meanings

Question 33

Chunking

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organizing items into familiar, manageable units; often occurs automatically

Question 34

Deep Processing

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encoding semantically, based on the meaning the words; tends to yield the best retention

Question 35

Deja Vu

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that eerie sense that \"I\'ve experienced this before.\" Cues from the current situation may subconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier experience.

Question 36

Echoic Memory

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a momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli; if attention is elsewhere, sounds and words can still be recalled within 3 or 4 seconds

Question 37

Effortful Processing

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encoding that requires attention and conscious effort

Question 38

Encoding

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the processing of information into the memory system- for example, by extracting meaning

Question 39

Explicit Memory

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memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and \"declare.\" (Also called DECLARATIVE MEMORY)

Question 40

Flashbulb memory

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a clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event

Question 41

Hippocampus

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a neural center located in the limbic system; helps process explicit memories for storage

Question 42

Iconic Memory

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a momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli; a photographic or picture-image memory lasting no more than a few tenths of a second

Question 43

Implicit Memory

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retention independent of conscious recollection (also called non declarative memory) - muscle memory

Question 44

Long-Term Memory

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the relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system. Includes knowledge, skills, and experiences

Question 45

Long-Term Potentiation

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an increase in a cell\'s firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation. Believed to be a neural basis for learning and memory

Question 46

Memory

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the persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information

Question 47

Misinformation Effect

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incorporating misleading information into one\'s memory of an event

Question 48

Mnemonics

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memory aids, especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices

Question 49

Mood-Congruent Memory

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the tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one\'s current good or bad mood

Question 50

Proactive Interference

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the disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information

Question 51

Recall

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a measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information learned earlier, as on a fill-in-the-blank test

Question 52

Recognition

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a measure of memory in which the person need only identify items previously learned, as on a multiple-choice test.

Question 53

Relearning

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a measure of memory that assesses the amount of time saved when learning material for a second time

Question 54

Repression

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in psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness

Question 55

Retrieval

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the process of getting information out of memory storage.

Question 56

Retroactive Interference

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the disruptive effect of new learning not he recall of old information

Question 57

Retrograde Amnesia

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an inability to retrieve information from one\'s past

Question 58

Sensory Memory

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the immediate, very brief recording of sensory information in the memory system

Question 59

Serial Position Effect

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our tendency to recall best the last and first items in a list

Question 60

Shallow Processing

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encoding on a basic level based on structure or appearance of words

Question 61

Short-Term Memory

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activated memory that holds a few items briefly, such as the seven digits of a phone number, before the information is stored or forgotten

Question 62

Source Amnesia

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attributing to the wrong source an event we have experience, heard about, read about, or imagined (also called source misattribution.) Source Amnesia, along with the misinformation effect, is at the heart of many false memories

Question 63

Spacing Effect

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the tendency for distributed study or practice to yield better long-term retention than is achieved through massed study or practice.

Question 64

Storage

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the retention of encoded information over time

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