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___________ is retention of memory for some period of time. |
Storage |
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Which of the following might be the most appropriate analogy for eidetic memory? |
A photograph |
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Repeating items over and over in order to aid memory is known as ______________ rehearsal. |
Maintenance |
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Long-term memory is organized in the form of semantic networks, or nodes of related information spreading out from a central piece of knowledge, according to the work of _______________. |
Baddeley |
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The best place to take your biology exam to ensure good retrieval of biology concepts is in _______________. |
The biology classroom |
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A witness on the stand swears that he saw someone commit a crime. Must you believe that the testimony is valid when a witness testifies so forcefully? |
No, because there is a great possibility of a "false positive" identitification |
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For which famous memory researcher is memory a problem-solving activity in which the problem is to give a coherent account of some past event, and the memory is the solution to the problem? |
Bartlett |
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According to Elizabeth Bowman, ____________________. |
Hypnosis makes production of false memories easier, hypnosis increases confidence in memories even fake ones, therapists have produced false memories through hypnosis |
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Short-term memories appear to be localized in the _______________. |
Prefrontal lobes |
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People with dementia typically have a memory problem known as ____________________. |
Retrograde amnesia |
