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Question 31

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Regarding the ways to improve memory, which of the following statements is FALSE?

A) There is very little you can do to improve your brain's ability to store long-term memories.
B) Research has shown that taking herbs, such as ginkgo biloba , or taking large doses of vitamin E will significantly improve one's memory.
C) The use of mnemonics has been shown to improve one's memory.
D) Most super memorizers use encoding and retrieval strategies to augment whatever natural talents they have.

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Question 32

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Regarding drugs, electroconvulsive shocks, and long-term potentiation, which of the following statements is FALSE?

A) Ginkgo biloba has yielded disappointing results in research trials that investigated drugs to improve memory.
B) Electrically stimulating parts of the brain involved in memory, such as the hippocampus, can increase long-term potentiation.
C) Rats administered drugs that increase long-term potentiation could remember the correct path through a maze better than rats not given the drug.
D) If two or more interconnected brain cells become more active at the same time, the connections between them grow stronger with the affected brain cell then responding more strongly to messages from the other cells.

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Regarding research on where different types of long-term memories are stored in the brain, which of the following statements is TRUE?

Forgetting may be due to a failure in either

Janice broke up with her long-time boyfriend Chuck two months ago. Every time any memory of Chuck creeps into her mind, she consciously pushes these memories out of her mind. Janice is trying to forget "this guy" by using

The types of sensory memory include

When Timmon comes home from kindergarten, he tells his mother that he learned the days of the week today. Over time, Timmon will forget when and where he learned the days of the week but will retain the names of the days of the week forever. This illustrates that the forgetting of episodic memories leads to the formation of __________ memories.

Regarding episodic memories, which of the following statements is TRUE?

Long-term procedural memories are stored in which part(s) of the brain?

In research studies, rote learning has been shown to be superior to the use of mnemonics in learning technical terms.

Electroconvulsive therapy has the side effect of causing memory loss because it disrupts

You and a friend are seated in the large auditorium psychology class. There are two students seated right behind you talking about what they did last weekend. You have trouble concentrating on what the teacher is saying, but you picked up on a lot of campus gossip from the conversation going on behind you. At the end of class, you relate to your friend the latest gossip heard during class, but she does not remember hearing any gossip and is really worried about how she will complete the new assignment that the teacher discussed today. You think, "What new assignment?" This explains the difference in your and your friend's

Sometimes false memories occur because a new memory is merely stored alongside a similar but older memory. In this case, the two memories can become mixed up, making us vulnerable to

While conducting brain surgery, which of the following electrically stimulated different brain areas in his patients and found that this activation appeared to produce vivid memories of long-forgotten events for these patients?

Which of the following would be the best explanation for why many soldiers do not remember some of the horrors they saw during combat?

Regarding research on where long-term memories are stored and activated within the brain, which of the following statements is FALSE?

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

People tend to review emotionally charged events over and over in their minds, telling others of the events, and also seeing many of these events over and over again in the news. For these reasons, many people place great confidence in their _________ memories.

Which of the following would be an example of short-term memory?

According to the explanation of interference as a cause of forgetting, retention will be best when a study session is followed by