Psych 7A

22 January 2023
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The inability to remember how Lincoln's head appears on a penny is most likely due to a failure in storage. retrieval. implicit memory. encoding.
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Encoding
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Cerebellum is to ________ memory as hippocampus is to ________ memory. short-term; long-term explicit; implicit long-term; short-term implicit; explicit
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implicit; explicit
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Fill-in-the-blank test questions measure ________; matching concepts with their definitions measures ________. recognition; relearning recall; recognition recall; relearning relearning; recall
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recall; recognition
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The relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system is called ________ memory. sensory long-term state-dependent flashbulb
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long-term
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Sherry easily remembers the telephone reservation number for Holiday Inns by using the mnemonic 1-800-HOLIDAY. She is using a memory aid known as chunking. implicit memory. the peg-word system. the serial position effect.
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chunking.
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After attending group therapy sessions for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, Karen mistakenly remembered details from others' traumatic life stories as part of her own life history. This best illustrates the dangers of mood-congruent memory. implicit memory. source amnesia. proactive interference.
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source amnesia
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After studying biology all afternoon, Alonzo is having difficulty remembering details of the organic chemistry material that he memorized that morning. Alonzo's difficulty best illustrates proactive interference. the spacing effect. source amnesia. retroactive interference.
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retroactive interference.
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After having seen many pictures of the Lincoln Monument during his lifetime, Mr. Adams mistakenly recalled that he had actually visited the site. This best illustrates source amnesia. implicit memory. flashbulb memory. proactive interference.
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source amnesia.
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Patients who have experienced brain damage may be unable to form new personal memories but are able to learn to do jigsaw puzzles, without awareness of having learned them. This suggests that explicit memories are stored in the cerebellum, which must not have been damaged. the cerebellum must have been damaged, hindering implicit memory formation. long-term potentiation decreases our ability to store implicit memories. the system for creating explicit memory has been affected, not the implicit memory system.
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the system for creating explicit memory has been affected, not the implicit memory system.
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By shrinking the hippocampus, prolonged stress is most likely to inhibit the process of long-term memory formation. repression. source misattribution. proactive interference.
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long-term memory formation.
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A type of motivated forgetting in which anxiety-arousing memories are blocked from conscious awareness is known as the spacing effect. retroactive interference. repression. proactive interference.
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repression.
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Memory aids that involve the use of vivid imagery and clever ways of organizing material are called organizational cues. flashbulb memories. semantic techniques. mnemonic devices.
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mnemonic devices.
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The tendency for distributed study to yield better long-term retention than massed study is known as the spacing effect. chunking. state-dependent memory. the serial position effect. long-term potentiation.
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the spacing effect.
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After looking up his friend's phone number, Alex was able to remember it only long enough to dial it correctly. In this case, the telephone number was clearly stored in his ________ memory. flashbulb echoic long-term short-term
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short-term
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On the telephone, Dominic rattles off a list of 10 grocery items for Kyoko to bring home from the store. Immediately after hearing the list, Kyoko attempts to write down the items. She is most likely to forget the items at the beginning of the list. at the end of the list. in the middle of the list. at the beginning and in the middle of the list.
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in the middle of the list.
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Group 1 is asked to write down the names of the seven dwarfs. Group 2 is asked to look at a list of possible names of the dwarfs and circle the correct seven. Why might Group 2 be more likely to recall more names? Group 2's list provides more retrieval cues, making this recognition task easier for them. Proactive interference is less likely to affect childhood learning. Source amnesia may interfere with Group 1's ability to recall the names of the dwarfs. Implicit memories are easier to recall than explicit memories are.
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Group 2's list provides more retrieval cues, making this recognition task easier for them.
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Some information in our fleeting ________ is encoded into short-term memory. semantic memory flashbulb memory long-term memory sensory memory
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sensory memory
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To recognize the active information processing that occurs in short-term memory, researchers have characterized it as ________ memory. working repressed flashbulb iconic
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working
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Repeating someone's name several times shortly after being introduced to that person is an effective strategy for automatic processing. rehearsal. chunking. implicit memory.
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rehearsal.
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Jamille performs better on foreign language vocabulary tests if she studies the material 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 chunking. mood-congruent memory. the serial position effect. the spacing effect.
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the spacing effect.
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The finding that people who sleep after learning a list of nonsense syllables forget less than people who stay awake provides evidence that forgetting may involve interference. repression. encoding failure. implicit memory loss.
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interference.