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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:

A) memory consolidation.
B) mood-congruent memory.
C) implicit memory.
D) the serial position effect.

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By showing people three rows of three letters each for only a fraction of a second,Sperling demonstrated that people have ________ memory.

A) working
B) implicit
C) iconic
D) procedural

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Source amnesia helps to explain

The retention of encoded information over time refers to:

People fail to learn a conditioned eyeblink response when the function of different pathways in their ________ is surgically disrupted.

Lars was feeling depressed at the time of his high school graduation.Lars is especially likely to recall his high school graduation when he is:

Professor Markus is a brilliant mathematician who is 70 years old and still enjoys teaching.Over the past few years,she has found it increasingly difficult to remember the names of her students.Suggest several possible explanations for the professor's memory problems.

Karl and Dee had a joyful wedding ceremony and reception.After their painful divorce,however,they began to remember the wedding as a somewhat hectic and unpleasant event.Their recollections best illustrate the nature of

As a child,Andre dreamed that he was chased and attacked by a ferocious dog.Many years later,he mistakenly recalled that this had actually happened to him.Andre's false recollection best illustrates

Peterson and Peterson asked people to count aloud backward after they were presented with three consonants.This study found that ________ memories will quickly disappear without active processing and rehearsal.

The basal ganglia would be of most importance in forming implicit memories of

The availability of glucose energy necessary for memory consolidation is most likely to be enhanced by:

When 80-year-old Ida looked at one of her old wedding pictures,she was flooded with vivid memories of her parents,her husband,and the early years of her marriage.The picture served as a powerful

Shortly after you see a missing-child poster you are more likely to interpret an ambiguous adult-child interaction as a possible kidnapping.This best illustrates the impact of:

Answering questions about what she had read in her psychology textbook improves Shauna's memory of the material more effectively than rereading the textbook material.This best illustrates:

The distinction between automatic and effortful processing most clearly highlights the nature of:

Hotaka can vividly recall the devastating experience of barely surviving the tsunami that took the lives of many others.It is likely that the stress of that experience provoked the ________ to boost activity in the memory-forming areas of his brain.

Jamille is taking French in school.She gets her best grades on vocabulary tests if she studies for 15 minutes every day for 8 days than if she crams for 2 hours the night before the test.This illustrates what is known as:

Semantic memory is best described as ________ memory of _________.

Reading a romantic novel caused Consuela to recall some past experiences with a high school boyfriend.The effect of the novel on Consuela's memory retrieval is an illustration of: