Exam 10: Memory
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After reading about glucose and memory, should you immediately start gulping down lemonade? Why or why not?
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________ memory refers to a vivid, detailed recollection of an emotional event.
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If the capacity of short-term memory is limited, how do we remember the beginning of a spoken sentence
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Conscious, intentional recollection of an event is called explicit memory.
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The ability to retrieve and reproduce from memory previously encountered material is called recognition.
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In the 1950s, George Miller estimated the capacity of short-term memory to be the magical number:
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Which of the following examples is a question that would most likely reduce the chance of false reporting by a child?
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Eyewitness testimonies by victims are most likely to contain errors when the suspect:
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Maria wrote a shopping list prior to going to the grocery store. Unfortunately, when she arrived at the store she realized she had left the list at home. If she is to purchase the items on her list, Maria must rely on which memory task?
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Preschoolers' memories are more vulnerable to suggestive questions than are the memories of school-aged children.
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The inability to distinguish an actual memory of an event from information you learned about the event elsewhere is called ________.
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In ancient times, philosophers compared memory to a soft wax tablet that would preserve anything imprinted on it.
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Eyewitness testimonies by victims are most likely to contain errors when the suspect:
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________ is a memory system that includes short-term memory and executive processes that control attention and the retrieval.
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During short-term memory tasks, the ________ is especially active.
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The ________ is the part of the brain that is involved with the formation and consolidation of memories associated with fear and other emotions.
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In the mid-1980s, the nation's media focused on the McMartin preschool in Los Angeles, where children claimed to have been hung in trees, raped, and forced to eat feces. Although none of the children had shown symptoms or problems during their preschool experience, most of the accused teachers were sentenced to years in prison. What has research revealed about the accuracy of children's testimony in cases such as this? Under what conditions are children apt to be suggestible?
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Most people seem to favor ________ for encoding and rehearsing the contents of short-term memory.
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In accordance with the three-box model of memory, the memory system involved in the prolonged storage of information is known as ________.
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