Exam 8: Memory

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Your text discusses a study in which volunteers wore a wireless heart rate monitor while they walked through a haunted house.The higher their anxiety level,the better they were able to accurately describe a scary person later.

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Contrast the three-box model of memory with the parallel distributed processing model of memory.If you were offered a well-paid position as a research assistant for a prominent memory researcher,would you prefer to work on research based on the three-box model or the PDP model? Why?

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Organizing memories by semantic groups is a human characteristic that is uninfluenced by schooling.

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_______________ refers to the capacity to retain and retrieve information.

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When 6-year-old Sven's parents overhear him describing his third birthday party,they look at each other in surprise.Sven appears to remember the birthday cake his father was baking burned and his aunt had to run out and buy one from a bakery,even though Sven was not present when those events occurred.Sven's memory illustrates the concept of

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The process by which a long-term memory becomes durable and stable is called

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Alexander Luria told of the journalist,S. ,who could remember the exact circumstances under which he learned memory after memory.From the story of S. ,we can conclude that a near-perfect memory

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A system that allows people to retain information over time is called

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The parallel distributed processing (PDP)model of memory represents the contents of memory as connections among a huge number of interacting processing units,distributed in a vast network and all operating in parallel.

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Zeke finds that he performs better on the exams that are given in his regular psychology classroom than he does in the large lecture room that is used to give midterms and finals to several sections at once.Zeke's experience illustrates the

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According to the serial-position effect,recall for items at the beginning of a list is known as __________ effect and recall of items at the end of a list is known as __________.

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According to the parallel distributed processing model,the human memory is recognized as

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Moderate amounts of hormones released by the adrenal glands during stress and emotional arousal tend to

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

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The relearning method,devised by Hermann Ebbinghaus over a century ago,assesses whether you learn material more quickly the second time you learn it.

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

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Olivia was injured in a serious car accident when she was 8 years old.Today,Olivia does not have a recollection of this event.Some psychologists would attribute this to

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Retrieval cues

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A recognition test requires one to

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Which of the following would be among Patty's semantic memories?

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