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64 Cards in this Set
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Although Jordan could not recall the exact words of a poem he had recently heard, he clearly remembered the meaning of the poem. This best illustrates the importance of:
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semantic encoding.
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Memories of emotional events are especially likely to be facilitated by activation of the
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amygdala
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The happier Judie is, the more readily she recalls experiences with former teachers who were warm and generous. This best illustrates that emotional states can be:
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retrieval cues.
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After looking up his friend's phone number, Alex was able to remember it only long enough to dial it correctly. In this case, the telephone number was clearly stored in his ________ memory.
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short-term
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During her evening Spanish language exam, Janica so easily remembers the French vocabulary she studied that morning that she finds it difficult to recall the Spanish vocabulary she rehearsed that afternoon. Her difficulty best illustrates:
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proactive interference.
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Employing the single word HOMES to remember the names of North America's five Great Lakes best illustrates the use of:
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a mnemonic device.
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Mr. Nydam suffers amnesia and is unable to remember playing golf on a particular course. Yet the more he plays the course, the more his game improves. His experience illustrates the need to distinguish between:
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explicit memory and implicit memory.
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After suffering a brain injury in a motorcycle accident, Adam cannot form new memories. He can, however, remember his life experiences before the accident. Adam's memory difficulty most clearly illustrates:
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encoding failure.
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After Teresa was verbally threatened by someone in a passing car, she was questioned as to whether she recognized the man who was driving the car. Several hours later, Teresa mistakenly recalled that the driver was a male rather than a female. Teresa's experience best illustrates:
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the misinformation effect.
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The extensive rehearsal necessary to encode nonsense syllables best illustrates:
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effortful processing.
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Students who review previously learned course material at various times throughout a semester in order to pass a comprehensive final are especially likely to demonstrate long-term retention of the course material. This best illustrates the value of:
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the spacing effect.
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At a block party, Cyndi is introduced to eight new neighbors. Moments later, she can only remember the names of the first three and last two neighbors. Her experience illustrates:
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the serial position effect.
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Which of the following is believed to be the synaptic basis for learning and memory?
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long-term potentiation
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Mrs. McBride can't consciously recall how frequently she criticizes her children because it would be too anxiety-arousing to do so. Sigmund Freud would have suggested that her poor memory illustrates:
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repression.
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Recalling something that you had once merely imagined happening as something you had directly experienced best illustrates:
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source amnesia.
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n understanding of the spacing effect provides insight into effective strategies for:
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. rehearsal.
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The peg-word system relies heavily on the use of:
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visual encoding.
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Having read a story once, certain amnesia victims will read it faster the second time even though they can't recall having seen the story before. They have most likely suffered damage to the:
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hippocampus.
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When you hear familiar words in your native language, it is virtually impossible not to register the meanings of the words. This best illustrates the importance of:
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automatic processing.
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Many people can easily recall exactly what they were doing when they heard the news of the 9/11 terrorist tragedy. This best illustrates ________ memory.
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flashbulb
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A measure of your memory in which you need to pick the correctly learned answer from a displayed list of options is known as a measure of:
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recognition.
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Whenever Valerie experiences intense feelings of fear, she is overwhelmed with childhood memories of her abusive parents. Valerie's experience best illustrates:
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mood-congruent memory.
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Although Ron typically smokes two packs of cigarettes a day, he recalls smoking little more than a pack a day. This poor memory best illustrates:
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motivated forgetting.
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When you have to make a long-distance call, dialing an unfamiliar area code plus a seven-digit number, you are likely to have trouble retaining the just-looked-up number. This best illustrates the limited capacity of ________ memory.
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short-term
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Which of the following is most likely to be stored as an implicit memory?
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a conditioned fear of guns
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Several months after watching a science fiction movie about spaceship travel and alien abductions, Steve began to remember that he had been abducted by aliens and personally subjected to many of the horrors portrayed in the movie. His mistaken recall best illustrates:
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source amnesia.
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Combining individual letters into familiar words enables you to remember more of the letters in this sentence. This best illustrates the value of:
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chunking.
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To recall his early life experiences, Aaron formed vivid mental images of the various rooms in his childhood home. Aaron was engaging in the process of:
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priming.
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While taking the final exam in American history, Marie was surprised and frustrated by her momentary inability to remember the name of the first president of the United States. Her difficulty most clearly illustrates:
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retrieval failure.
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The surprising ease with which people form false memories best illustrates that the processes of encoding and retrieval involve:
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memory construction.
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Several months after watching a science fiction movie about spaceship travel and alien abductions, Steve began to remember that he had been abducted by aliens and personally subjected to many of the horrors portrayed in the movie. His mistaken recall best illustrates:
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source amnesia.
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source amnesia
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attributing to the wrong source an even we have experienced heard about read about or imagined
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misinformation effect
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incorporating misleading information into ones memory of an event
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retroactive interference
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the disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old info
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repression`
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the basic defense mechanism that banishes from conciousness anxiety arousing thoughts feelings and memories
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proactive interference
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disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new info
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relearning
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a memory measure that assesses amount of time saved when learning material for the second time
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recognition
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measure of memory in which the person need only identify items perviously learned as on MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST
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recall
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person retrieve info learned earlier
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priming
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the activation often unconciously of particular memory associations
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mood congruent memory
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the tendancy to recall experiences that are consistent with ones current good or bad mood.
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Long term potential
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increase in synaps firing potential after brief rapid stimulation believed to be neural basis for learning and memory
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implicit memroy
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retention dependent of concious recolection
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iconic memory
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momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli photographic or picture memory lasting no more than a 10th of a second
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hippocampus
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process explicit memories for storage
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explicit memory
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memory of facts and experiences that one can conciously know and declare
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echoic memory
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momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli if attention is elsewhere sounds or words can be recalled within 3 or 4 seconds
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amnesia l
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loss of memory
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spacing effect
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the tendacy for disturebed study or practice to yield better long term retention than is achieved through mass study
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serial position
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tendancy to recall only first and last of a list.
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rehearsal
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concious repetition of information either to maintain for conciousness or encode for stoarage
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mnemonics
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memory aids
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imagery
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mental pictures powerful aid to effortful processing
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effortful processing
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encoding that requires attention and concious effort
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chunking
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organizing items in familiar manageable units, often occurs automatically
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automatic processing
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unconcious encoding of identical information such as space time and frequency and well learned info ,,,such as word meanings
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working memory
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newer understanding of short term memory that involves concious active processing
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storage
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retention of encoded information over time
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short term memory
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activated memory that holds a few items briefly such as a phoen number
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sensory memory
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immediate very brief encoding of sensory info on memory system
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retrieval
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process of getting info out of memory storage
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memory
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presistence of learning overtime through storage and retrieval
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long term memory
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the relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system includes knowledge skills and experiences
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flashbulb memory
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clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event.
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