Psychology – Hartman Holmes – Flashcards

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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
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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.
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Mentally rehearsing the glossary definitions of unfamiliar terms in order to remember them for a later test illustrates
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effortful processing.
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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
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Another term for implicit memory is ________ memory.
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nondeclarative
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The semantic processing of the words in a short poem illustrates
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deep processing.
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Researchers now recognize the active information processing that occurs in short-term memory and refer to it as ________ memory.
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working
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Which of these represents an explicit memory?
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Your memory of your 18th birthday.
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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
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Which of the following questions about the word depressed would best prepare you to correctly remember tomorrow that you had seen the word on this quiz?
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How well does the word describe you?
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The three steps in memory information processing are
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encoding, storage, retrieval.
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Visual sensory memory is referred to as
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iconic memory.
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The spacing effect means that
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distributed study yields better retention than cramming.
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The process of getting information out of memory storage is called
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retrieval.
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Which of the following is NOT a measure of retention?
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retrieval
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Damage to the ________ would most likely interfere with a person's memory of how to play the piano.
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basal ganglia
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Conscious memories of emotionally stressful events are especially likely to be facilitated by activation of the
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amygdala
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Which of the following is believed to be the synaptic basis for learning and memory?
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long-term potentiation
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Damage to the ________ would most likely interfere with learning a conditioned fear response to the sight of a dog who had bitten you on several occasions.
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cerebellum
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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
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The recall of sad experiences is often primed by feelings of sadness. This most clearly illustrates
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mood-congruent memory.
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At a block party, Cyndi is introduced to eight new neighbors. Moments later, she remembers only the names of the first three and last two neighbors. Her experience illustrates
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the serial position effect.
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After suffering 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.
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Activating memories of your childhood by thinking of various locations in your childhood home best illustrates
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priming.
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Julie most accurately recalls information learned in her history classroom when her recall is tested in the very same classroom. This best illustrates
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context-dependent memory.
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During her evening Spanish language exam, Janica so easily remembers the French vocabulary she studied that morning that she finds it difficult to recall the Spanish vocabulary she rehearsed that afternoon. Her difficulty best illustrates
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proactive interference.
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After Teresa was verbally threatened by someone in a passing car, she was asked whether she recognized the man who was driving the car. Several hours later, Teresa mistakenly recalled that the driver was a male rather than a female. Teresa's experience best illustrates
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the misinformation effect.
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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.
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Although Maria can encode and consciously recall new information, she is unable to consciously recall events that happened prior to the brain damage that she suffered as an adolescent. Maria's memory difficulty most clearly illustrates
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retrograde amnesia.
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The gradual fading of the physical memory trace contributes to
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storage decay.
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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 difficulty most clearly illustrates
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retrieval failure.
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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 portrayed in the movie. His mistaken recall best illustrates
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source amnesia.
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