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Question 41

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Implicit memories are defined as memories:

A) of specific personal events.
B) of recognition.
C) that we are aware of.
D) that we are not aware of.

E) B) and C)
F) A) and B)

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Question 42

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Your roommate is struggling in school because she simply reads over the text and expects that it will "sink in." The problem is that ____________ rehearsal is a poor strategy for transferring information to long-term memory.

A) maintenance
B) elaborative
C) generative
D) repetitive

E) A) and D)
F) None of the above

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Question 43

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Even though you paid little attention to and did not intentionally try to encode how many times your psychology professor has worn a particular shirt,you can recall that he has worn that shirt five times this semester.This type of encoding information without intention is called:

It is the afternoon and you are on the phone with Sally talking about what movie you would like to see tonight.Before you end the call,you agree to meet at the theatre at 8:30.An hour or so later,your roommate Dave sets up a psychology exam study session with you for the next evening at 8:00.As the evening approaches and you are getting ready to go to the movie,you can't remember whether you decided to meet Sally at 8:00 or 8:30.This example best illustrates which of the following?

Working (short-term) memory encodes information as:

Storage is a process of:

A mnemonic device is a:

The approach that suggests that a pattern of node activation is associated with each concept in memory is called __________ networks.

At a high school reunion,Miguel is reminiscing with his classmates.He remembers a particularly difficult biology class he took in his senior year.While he vividly remembers what his teacher looked like and thinks that his last name started with the letter K,he can't remember the teacher's entire last name.This example best demonstrates:

The amnesia patient H.M.showed a mild memory loss for the events in his life that occurred one to two years before the operation that accidentally caused his memory damage.This type of memory loss is an example of:

The theory which proposes that forgetting is a result of physical memory traces fading away over time with disuse is the ____________.

Jim has a hard time remembering to do things that he plans to do in the future,such as mailing letters or remembering to call someone.These memories are examples of what are called the ____________ memories and the __________ lobe is thought to play an important role in their retrieval.

Just before leaving college at the end of her senior year,Gail decides to visit the dormitory where she lived as a first-year student.On walking down her old hallway,she suddenly remembers many events that took place in the dorm that she thought she had forgotten.Gail's enhanced memory is most readily explained by the predictions of _______________ memory.

Research by Timo Mäntylä (1986) has revealed that having _____________ that is/are self-generated is the most effective way to improve recall memory.

Any external or internal stimulus that triggers the activation of information stored in long-term memory is a ___________.

Memory is better when the conditions present during encoding match those that are present during retrieval according to the ___________________.

Researchers have stimulated neural pathways with rapid low-intensity bursts of electricity to try to duplicate the process of the __________ memory formation.

Recall tests are one way of assessing explicit memory.

The neural network approach to memory assumes that a node in a network is physical in nature and that it does not contain an individual unit of information.

The amygdala is to the prefrontal cortex as: