PSY 201 Quiz 5 (Christian JSU) – Flashcards
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Which type of memory has an essentially limitless capacity?
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Long-term memory
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Which neural center in the limbic system helps process explicit memories for storage?
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Hippocampus
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Explicit memory is also known as
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Declarative memory
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After recovering from a stroke, Farina was able to learn how to hit a tennis ball. She is unable, however, to learn and remember the name of the rehabilitation therapist who has been working with her each day to develop her tennis swing. Farina is most likely to have suffered damage to her
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Hippocampus
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Remembering how to solve a puzzle without any conscious recollection that you can do so best illustrates ________ memory.
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Implicit
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Procedural memories for well-learned skills such as how to ride a bicycle are typically ________ memories.
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Implicit
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A lack of conscious memories of your first three years of life best illustrates
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Infantile amnesia
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A flashbulb memory would typically be stored in _______ memory.
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Long term
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Words, images, and other bits of information used to access a stored memory are called
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Retrieval cue
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Memories are primed by
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Retrieval cues
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Recall of what you have learned is often improved when your physical surrounding at the time of retrieval and encoding are the same. This best illustrates
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Context dependent memory
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The tendency to recall the first and last items in a list better than the middle items is known as the _______ effect.
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Serial position
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Eye witnesses to a crime often recall the details of the crime most accurately when they return to the scene of the crime. This best illustrates
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Context dependent memory
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An inability to retrieve information learned in the past is called
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Retrograde amnesia
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A loss of an encoded memory as a result of a gradual fading of the physical memory trace best illustrates
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Storage decay
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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
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Retrieval
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Proactive interference refers to the
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Disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information
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The disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of previously learned information is called
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Retroactive interference
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The misinformation effect best illustrates the dynamics of
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Memory construction
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Visualizing an object and actually seeing that object activate similar brain areas. This most clearly contributes to
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Imagination inflation
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Déjà vu refers to the
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Eerie sense of having previously experience a situation or event
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Research on memory construction indicates that
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False memories of imagined events are often recalled as something that really happened
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To help resolve the controversy over reports of repressed memories of sexual abuse, the major psychological and psychiatric association's suggest that
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Adult memories of experiences happening before age 3 are unreliable
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As a child, Andre dreamed that he was chased and attacked by a ferocious dog. Many years later, he mistakenly recalled that this had actually happened to him. Andre's false recollection best illustrates
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False memories often feel as real as true memories
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When 80 year old Ida looked at one of her old wedding pictures, she was flooded with vivid memories of her parents, her husband and the early years of her marriage. The picture served as a powerful
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Retrieval cue
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After his last drinking spree, Fakim hid a half-empty liquor bottle. He couldn't remember where he hid it until he started drinking again. Fakim's pattern of recall best illustrates
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State dependent memory
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A conscious memory of the name of the first president of the United States is a (n) _________ memory.
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Explicit
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Retention of skills and classically conditioned associations without conscious recollection is known as ________ memory.
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Implicit
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Elevated levels of stress hormones most clearly contribute to developing
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Flashbulb memory
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Faulty memory for how, when, or where information was learned is called
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Source amnesia
