Exam 6: Memory

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When Edie studies her psychology terms,she tries to tie each concept to something she already knows.She thinks about the meaning of the concept rather than just saying the words over and over.Which model of memory would best explain Edie's approach to encoding memories?

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Sitting in a very noisy restaurant,you are able to screen out all the other conversations around you so you can listen to the friend with whom you are conversing.This is an example of:

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Declarative memories are to ________ memories as procedural memories are to __________ memories.

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When old information interferes with the retrieval of newer information,this is called retroactive interference.

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Retrieving information from LTM is done by assembling information from various brain locations and literally forming memories from these various pieces stored away at encoding.This process is known as:

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The levels-of-processing concept of Craik and Lockhart would suggest that which of the following questions would lead to better memory of the word frog?

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Edna took sociology in the fall semester and is now taking psychology.Some of the concepts are similar,and Edna finds that she sometimes has trouble recalling some of the major sociology theorists.She keeps getting them confused with psychology theorists.Edna's problem is most likely due to:

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Patients with anterograde amnesia were taught to solve the Tower of Hanoi problem.It was later found that they remembered solving the problem and could do so again.

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Based on Loftus's 1978 study,subjects viewed a slide presentation of an accident,and some of the subjects were asked a question about a blue car when the actual slides contained pictures of a green car.When these same subjects were asked about the colour of the car at the accident,they were found to be confused.This is an example of:

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Salvatore was introduced to a number of new people on his first day at his new job.According to Ebbinghaus,when should Salvatore expect to have forgotten the greatest number of the names he has just learned?

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An illusion is defined as:

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A police officer is shot in a gun battle with bank robbers.Although emergency brain surgery saves his life,it leaves him unable to store new information.The officer's family is applying to the province for compensation for his injuries.When asked to provide a diagnosis of the difficulties he suffers,what will they write?

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Shaquin finished his term paper and handed it in.As he walked out of the classroom,he realized that there were a few more things he should have included in the paper.Shaquin experienced a problem with the __________ component of memory.

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Flashbulb memories:

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What type of stimuli did Hermann Ebbinghaus use in his memory experiments?

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When a person "forgets" what someone has just said because he or she wasn't paying attention to the speaker at all,it is an example of the ___________ explanation of forgetting.

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Which of the following statements is true about semantic and episodic memories?

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Which of the following properties of sound is the most similar to the brightness of light?

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Memory for fear of objects is most likely stored in the cerebellum.

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Evidence suggests that procedural memories are stored in the:

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