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Question 81

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Storage is to encoding as ________ is to ________.

A) recognition;recall
B) rehearsal;retrieval
C) retention;acquisition
D) explicit memory;implicit memory

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Question 82

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Philippe has just completed medical school.In reflecting on his years of formal education,he is able to recall the names of all his instructors except the fifth-grade teacher who flunked him.According to Freud,his forgetting illustrates:

A) repression.
B) proactive interference.
C) retroactive interference.
D) the misinformation effect.

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Question 83

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Some information in our fleeting ________ is encoded into short-term memory.

Iconic memory refers to

Although Maria can encode and consciously recall new information,she is unable to consciously recall events that happened prior to the brain damage she suffered as an adolescent.Maria's memory difficulty most clearly illustrates:

To retain a newly introduced nonsense syllable in our working memory,it is most clearly necessary to engage in:

The process of getting information into memory is called:

By creating an outline in which specific facts and theories are located within the larger framework of major topics and subtopics,Jasmine can remember much more of what she reads in her textbooks.This best illustrates the benefits of

Echoic memory refers to:

After studying biology all afternoon,Alonzo is having difficulty remembering details of the organic chemistry material he memorized that morning.Alonzo's difficulty best illustrates:

The misinformation effect best illustrates the dynamics of

The disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information is called:

Donald Thompson was an initial suspect in a rape case.The rape victim confused her memories of Thompson and the actual rapist because she had seen Thompson's image on TV shortly before she was attacked.The victim's false recollection best illustrates:

The hippocampus helps process ________ memories for long-term storage.

Information-processing models compare human memory to a:

Which measure of memory retention assesses the amount of time saved when learning material again?

A baseball strikes Ashley in the head and she is momentarily knocked unconscious.The physical injury,though not serious,is most likely to interfere with Ashley's:

Which pioneering researcher was the first to make extensive use of nonsense syllables in the study of human memory?

We are unable to consciously attend to most of the sights and sounds that are continually bombarding us.This fact most clearly contributes to

After hearing stories of things they both had and had not actually experienced with "Mr.Science," preschool children spontaneously recalled him doing things that were only mentioned in the stories.This best illustrates: