Exam 7: C: Memory

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According to the recency effect,if your father read you a list of 10 items to pick up at the hardware store,you would most easily recall items

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Jermaine sees a car accident and initially estimates the offending driver to be travelling at 60 km/hr.However,after hearing another witness's report of the cars "bumping into each other" and answering a police officer's questions about the rate of speed when the cars "made contact," he subsequently revises his estimate to 50 km/hr and his memory of the accident changes.This is an example of

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Mariska's parents often tell the story about how she broke her arm when she was two,but Mariska has no memory of the event at all.She is most likely experiencing

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Adrianna is trying to memorize the names of the bones in the hand.She had gone through the whole list of them when her phone rang.After she gets off the phone,she is MOST likely to remember the first few bone names on the list because of the

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Ebbinghaus found that information is forgotten

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Isla is studying French and Spanish for two upcoming exams.She starts by studying French and then moves on to studying Spanish.However,when Isla goes to write her Spanish exam,she finds she keeps remembering French words rather than Spanish words.This is an example of

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Based on research outlined in the textbook that describes the influence of emotion on memory,which of the following orders is correct,from most likely to be recalled to least likely to be recalled?

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Which of the following situations is most likely to create a flashbulb memory?

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A(n)__________ is an organized cluster of memories that constitutes one's knowledge about events,objects,and ideas.

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Immediately after class,Indigo remembered the definitions she had just learned in her Psychology class.However,when completing a quiz a few days later,Indigo had trouble remembering most of the content.Which of the following is the most likely biological explanation for this?

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Amahl just began teaching a new class.After having all the students list off their names,which ones is he most likely to forget?

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The Atkinson-Shiffrin model of memory consists of ____________,which retain information,and ____________,which shift information from one type of memory to another.

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While studying about operant conditioning for his upcoming Psychology exam,Damien thinks about his job at the plastics factory.He realizes that he's paid on a fixed-ratio schedule.Personalizing the information in an effort to better retain it,is an example of

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As Katlin is learning a new language,she repeats the sound of the word over and over in her mind.Which component of working memory is primarily engaged during this task?

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The 'magical' number that describes short-term memory capacity is

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Which memory system holds information about all surrounding stimuli present at a particular moment?

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Greg loves telling the story about how he met his boyfriend Asher while skydiving in New Zealand.In recalling how he and Asher first met,Greg is relying on his _______ memory.

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The order of the basic memory processes in which information enters the memory system and is later used is

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After you finish reading this sentence,the information will remain in your ________ as you consider each of the answers below.

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As Dominique reviews the vocabulary terms for her French class,she is most likely to experience the greatest degree of forgetting

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