Exam 10: Memory

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When Sir Frederic Bartlett asked people to read unfamiliar stories and then to recite the stories to him later, he found that the details were often changed to make the story coherent.

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Source misattribution occurs when a person experiences the partial loss of memory with no apparent biological cause.

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Priming is a method for measuring explicit memory.

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The inability to remember events and experiences that occurred during the first two or three years of life is termed ________.

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What are the components of the information-processing model, in order of occurrence?

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The ________ theory of forgetting proposes that memory fades with time and lack of use.

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Lucio is two years old and doesn't seem to recall meeting his aunt a few months earlier. This is likely because he:

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A fill-in-the-blank quiz of psychology terms would test for recognition of the terms.

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Which of the following is considered to be an implicit memory?

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In the three-box model of memory, short-term memory holds a limited amount of information.

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When researchers investigated the organization of long-term memory, they found that:

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There is concrete evidence that early traumatic events cause memory dissociation.

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In the "three-box model of memory," which memory system holds information for no more than a few seconds, until it can be processed further?

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Margeaux is introduced to the following people when she arrives at the party: Derek, Kayla, Calvin, Debbie, Rose, Melanie, Garrett, Tom, Francis, Jane, John, and Vincent. According to the serial-position effect, it will be most difficult to remember the names of:

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In addressing the debate regarding children's memories of sexual abuse, it has become clear that:

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Research on autobiographical memory indicates that most adults cannot recall any events until about:

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Amnesia can be organic-for example, resulting from ________-or psychogenic (i.e., resulting from ________).

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Unconscious retention in memory, as evidenced by the effect of a previous experience or previously encountered information on current thoughts and actions, is called:

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Early in the 1990s, controversy arose regarding the accuracy of long-buried memories of sexual abuse. Freud would have explained this as an example of a repressed memory that later is brought to conscious awareness. What does the evidence say about repression?

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Confabulation is especially likely to occur if you have thought about the imagined event many times.

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