Psych Flash Cards Ch 7 – Flashcards
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Many students review course material at various times during a semester so they will be prepared for the final exam. These students are especially likely to retain the iformation far into the future. This best illustrates the value of..
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the spacing effect
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The process of encoding refers to
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getting information into memory
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Why did she build a fence for her mother Josephine?
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she was afraid she would wander off and get lost in a corn field
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Mrs. McBride can't consciously recall how often she yells at 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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Stress hormones promote stronger memories by
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increasing the availablity of glucose
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Recalling something that you had once merely imagined happening as something you had directly experienced best illustrates..
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source amnesia
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You are most likely to automatically encode information about
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the sequence of your day's events
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In a study on context cues, people learned words while on land or when they were underwater. In a later test of recall, those with the best retention had..
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learned the words and been tested on them in the same context
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Alzheimer's disease is a slow gradual disorder--memory and life skills are slowly lost. T/F
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true
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Jamille is taking French in school. She gets her best grades on vocabulary tests if she studies for 15 minutes every day for 8 days than if she crams for 2 hours the night before the test. This illustrates what is known as
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the spacing effect
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Retaininig learned skills without conscious awareness of this learning is known as__memory
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implicit
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The hippocampus plays a critical role in
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explicit memory
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Excitement or stress triggers our glands to produce stress hormones. This is most likely to facilitate
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long term potentiation
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Yolanda often forgets people's names--but always remembered her son. T/F
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false
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What technique sused by professional therapists are most likely to promote false memories in patients?
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hypnosis, guided imagery, dream analysis
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Why was Fannie upset with her daughter and with the people at the DOT?
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they told her she could no longer dive her car, she feared losig her independence, and she did not want to be dependent on other people to go places.
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After suffering a brain injury in a motorcycle accident, Arotza cannot form new memories. He can, however, remember eventes before the accident. Arotza's memory difficulty most clearly illustrates
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encoding failure
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The persistence of learning over time most clearly depends on
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memory
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When 80 yr old Ida looked at her old wedding photos, she was flooded with vivid memories of her parents, her husband, and the early years of her marriage. The pictures served as powerful..
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retrieval cues
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Yolanda lived in a nursing home and had hallucinations of snakes in her chair and in her closet. T/F
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true
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The effortful processing of information
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can become automatic through practice
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How did Joe describe himself?
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I was a genius and now I am not, I get lost in the yard and fear forgetting to go home, and I don't have E.D.- I have D.D.S
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Exciting or shocking events are seared into memory with the help of
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hormonal changes
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There is a positive correlation between Alzheimer's disease and heart disease/diabetes. T/F
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true
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To remember all the school supplies she needs to buy, Marcy formed mental images of each item positioned at distinct locations along her daily route to school. Marcy's tactic best illustrates the use of
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visual encoding
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Austin can't remember Jack Smith's name because he wasn't paying attention when he was introduced to Jack. Austin's poor memory is best explained in terms of
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encoding failure
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