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Tests of memory based upon relearning use which of the following to demonstrate the retention of what was previously learned?


A) recognition score
B) the curve of forgetting
C) redintegration score
D) savings score

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Another name for short-term memory, especially as it is used for thinking and problem-solving, is __________ memory.


A) working
B) eidetic
C) procedural
D) integrative

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Regarding long-term memory (LTM) , which of the following statements is TRUE?


A) LTM is often referred to as working memory.
B) LTM has a limited storage capacity.
C) Although information can be stored in LTM as images, the information is typically stored phonetically.
D) If you make an error in LTM it will probably be related to meaning.

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State-dependent learning is a term which refers to the fact that


A) bodily states can be strong cues for later memory.
B) learning and memory can be increased with the use of drugs.
C) sad people tend to have more emotionally-cued memories than happy people do.
D) adults tend to lose eidetic memory as they grow older.

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Cheryl meets her fiancé's family and wants to remember their names.To do this, she repeats their names over and over again in her mind.This process is called


A) indexing.
B) maintenance rehearsal.
C) elaborative processing.
D) chunking or reordering.

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José studies, stays awake for eight hours, then sleeps for eight hours.Santos studies, then sleeps eight hours, and is then awake for eight hours.Regarding the amount of forgetting that each of these students will experience,


A) José will forget more of what he studied than Santos.
B) Santos will forget more of what he studied than José.
C) Both will forget the same amount of material.
D) Neither will forget a significant amount of material since only 16 hours have passed since they studied.

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Knowing that addition is the reverse of subtraction and how to spell elaborate illustrate ___________ memory.


A) semantic
B) procedural
C) skill
D) episodic

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A brief continuation of sensory activity in the auditory system after a sound is first heard is referred to as __________ memory.


A) echoic
B) iconic
C) short-term
D) working

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Your teacher has you learn the following: "One is bun, two is a shoe, three is a tree, four is a door, five is a hive, six is sticks, seven is heaven, eight is a gate, nine is a line, and ten is a hen." Then, he gives you a list of words to remember and instructs you to form an image associating the first listed word "frog" with "bun," which rhymes with "one" for the first word in the sequence.You picture a "frog-burger on a bun." Then you associate the shoe with the second listed item, and so on.You are


A) using acrostics.
B) forming a chain.
C) using a system.
D) using the keyword method.

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Smelling apple pie causes you to have vivid and detailed memories of the happy times that you spent in your grandmother's kitchen.This process is called


A) redintegration.
B) eidetic imagery.
C) chunking or recoding.
D) the serial position effect.

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Regarding short-term memory (STM) , which of the following statements is TRUE?


A) STM has an unlimited storage capacity and can hold information for at least 30 minutes.
B) It is very difficult to do more than one task at a time in STM.
C) Unlike long-term memory, STM is rarely affected by interruption, or displacement.
D) Although information can be stored phonetically in STM, it is most often stored in images.

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Strategies used in a cognitive interview that can help recreate the context in which classroom information was learned include


A) writing down everything you remember, including trivial details.
B) using dream analysis to remember details consolidated during sleep.
C) recalling things from a single, focused viewpoint.
D) skilled use of mnemonics.

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If a memory is particularly emotional, as are many flashbulb memories, the process of consolidation is intensified by heightened activity in the


A) pons.
B) limbic system.
C) reticular formation.
D) prefrontal cortex.

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On the reading comprehension test, a student reads a sentence and then the examiner turns the page and asks the student to select which picture out of four best illustrates what he or she read.The student's memory for what was read is being tested using


A) recall.
B) relearning.
C) recognition.
D) redintegration.

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Which part of a poem or musical selection will be most difficult to remember and will, thus, require additional practice?


A) beginning
B) middle
C) end
D) all parts are of equal difficulty

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According to blood flow patterns, the cortex of the brain appears to be where which type of memory is stored?


A) procedural
B) eidetic
C) skill
D) declarative

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Discuss the occurrence of partial memories, including the concepts of the tip-of-the-tongue (TOT)state and the feeling of knowing; and explain why people experience déjà vu.

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Partial memories are common.The tip-of-t...

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A memory, which can seem accurate but is not, is known as a(n)


A) eidetic memory.
B) false memory.
C) sane hallucination.
D) declarative memory.

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Your recollections about the events that took place on your last birthday are stored in your __________ memory.


A) episodic
B) semantic
C) retroactive
D) short-term

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Your instructor gives a pop test after just lecturing on the effects of drugs on the nervous system.On this test, you write "axon potential" instead of "action potential" and "repression" instead of "depression." Your mistakes illustrate the errors that can occur because most short-term memories are encoded


A) phonetically.
B) visually.
C) episodically.
D) procedurally.

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