CH.7 PSYCH Quiz

26 June 2023
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Which measure of memory retention assesses the ability to draw information out of storage and into conscious awareness?
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recall
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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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Effortful processing most clearly requires
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working memory
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Which measure of memory retention assesses the amount of time saved when learning material again?
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relearning
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Consciously repeating the name of a new classmate you want to remember illustrates
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effortfull processing
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Which of the following has been suggested as an explanation for infantile amnesia?
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The hippocampus is not well developed before 3 years of age.
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The inability to remember whose face appears on a five-dollar bill is most likely due to a failure in
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encoding
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Research on memory construction indicates that
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false memories often feel as real as true memories.
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In Alan Baddeley's model of working memory, the hypothetical central executive engages in
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focusing attention
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Hearing the word rabbit may lead people to spell the spoken word hair as "h-a-r-e." This best illustrates the outcome of a process called
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priming
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The difference between automatic and effortful processing best illustrates
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the two-track mind
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After being asked to remember three consonants, participants in a research study counted aloud backward by threes to prevent
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rehearsal
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When children are interviewed about their recollections of possible sexual abuse, their reports are especially credible if
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they are asked nonleading questions by a neutral interviewer soon after the possible abuse.
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The process of encoding refers to
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getting information into memory.
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People should avoid back-to-back study times for learning Spanish and French vocabulary in order to minimize
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interference.
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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
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amnesia
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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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The increase in synaptic firing potential that contributes to memory formation is known as
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long-term potentiation.
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Research on memory construction indicates that memories of past experiences are likely to be
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distorted by our current expectations
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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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The integration of new incoming information with knowledge retrieved from long-term memory involves the activity of
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working memory.
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Passing an electric current through the brain during electroconvulsive therapy is most likely to disrupt ________ memory.
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short-term
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Research on young children's false eyewitness recollections has indicated that
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it is surprisingly difficult for both children and professional interviewers to reliably separate the children's true memories from false memories.
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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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The importance of effortful processing for long-term retention is best illustrated by
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the testing effect.
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People fail to learn a conditioned eyeblink response when their ________ is damaged.
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cerebellum
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A good night's sleep is most likely to improve exam grades by supporting the process of
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memory consolidation.
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The address for obtaining tickets to a popular quiz show flashes on the TV screen, but the image disappears before Sergei has had a chance to write down the complete address. To his surprise, however, he has retained a momentary mental image of the five-digit zip code. His experience best illustrates ________ memory.
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iconic
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George Miller proposed that about seven information bits constitutes the capacity of ________ memory.
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short-term
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We are unable to consciously attend to most of the sights and sounds that are continually bombarding us. This fact most clearly contributes to
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encoding failure.
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Karl and Dee had a joyful wedding ceremony. After their painful divorce, however, they began to remember the wedding as a somewhat hectic and unpleasant event. Their recollections best illustrate the nature of
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memory construction.
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Stress hormones provoke the ________ to boost activity in the brain's memory-forming centers.
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amygdala
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The retention of encoded information over time refers to
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storage.
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We encode implicit memories by means of
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automatic processing.
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Some information in our fleeting ________ is encoded into short-term memory.
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sensory memory