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Pregunta 1
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The three steps in memory information processing are...
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sensing, transducing, perceiving
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seeing, hearing, storage
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acquisition, extinction, spontaneous recovery
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encoding, storage, retrieval
Pregunta 2
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Visual sensory memory is referred to as...
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iconic memory
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echoic memory
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mnemonic memory
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semantic memory
Pregunta 3
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Lewis cannot remember the details of the torture he experienced as a prisoner of war. According to Freud, Lewis’ failure to remember these painful memories is an example of...
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repression
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long-term potentiation
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negative reinforcement
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flashbulb memory
Pregunta 4
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Studies by Loftus and Palmer, in which people were quizzed about a film of an accident, indicate that...
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when quizzed immediately, people can recall very little, due to the stress of witnessing an accident
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when questioned as little as one day later, their memory was very inaccurate
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most people had very accurate memories as much as 6 months later
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people’s recall may easily be affected by misleading information
Pregunta 5
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One way to increase the amount of information in memory is to group it into larger, familiar units. This process is referred to as...
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the principle of conservation
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proactive organization
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chunking
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encoding
Pregunta 6
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Kandel and Schwartz have found that when learning occurs, more of the neurotransmitter [blank_start]serotonin[blank_end] is released into synapses.
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serotonin
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cortisol
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dopamine
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glucose
Pregunta 7
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Research on memory construction reveals that memories...
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are stored as exact copies of experience
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reflect a person’s biases and assumptions
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may be chemically transferred from one organism to another
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even if long term, usually decay within about five years
Pregunta 8
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In a study on context cues, people learned words while on land or when they were underwater. In a later test of recall, those with the best retention had...
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learned the words on land, that is, in the more familiar context
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learned the words underwater, that is, in the more exotic context
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learned the words and been tested on them in different contexts
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learned the words and been tested on them in the same context
Pregunta 9
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The spacing effect means that...
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distributed study yields better retention than cramming
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retention is improved when encoding and retrieval are separated by no more than 1 hour
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learning causes a reduction in the size of the synaptic gap between certain neurons
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delaying retrieval until memory has consolidated improves recall
Pregunta 10
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Studies demonstrate that learning causes permanent neural changes in the [blank_start]synapses[blank_end] of animals’ neurons.
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synapses
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myelin
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cell bodies
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all of these
Pregunta 11
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The basal ganglia of the brain plays a critical role in the formation of...
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iconic memory
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echoic memory
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implicit memory
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explicit memory
Pregunta 12
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Memory for skills (e.g., skills learned during infancy) is called...
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explicit memory
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declarative memory
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prime memory
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implicit memory
Pregunta 13
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Which of the following describes the typical forgetting curve?
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a steady, slow decline in retention over time
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a steady, rapid decline in retention over time
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a rapid initial decline in retention becoming stable thereafter
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a slow initial decline in retention becoming rapid thereafter
Pregunta 14
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Which of the following measures of retention is the least sensitive in triggering retrieval?
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recall
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recognition
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relearning
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they are equally sensitive
Pregunta 15
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At your high school reunion you cannot remember the last name of your homeroom teacher. Your failure to remember is most likely the result of...
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encoding failure
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storage failure
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retrieval failure
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state-dependent memory
Pregunta 16
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According to the serial position effect, when recalling a list of words you should have the greatest difficulty with those...
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at the beginning of the list
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at the end of the list
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at the end and in the middle of the list
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in the middle of the list
Pregunta 17
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Experimenters gave people a list of words to be recalled. When the participants were tested after a delay, the items that were best recalled were those...
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at the beginning of the list
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in the middle of the list
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at the end of the list
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at the beginning and end of the list
Pregunta 18
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Which type of word/verbal processing results in the greatest retention?
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shallow
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deep
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visual
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auditory
Pregunta 19
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From the list below, which area of the brain is most relevant in the processing of implicit memories?
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hippocampus
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cerebellum
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hypothalamus
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amygdala
Pregunta 20
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Repression is theorized to be an example of...
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encoding failure
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memory decay
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motivated forgetting
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all of the above
Pregunta 21
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Long-term potentiation (LTP) refers to...
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the disruptive influence of old memories on the formations of new memories
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the disruptive influence of recent memories on the retrieval of old memories
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our tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with our current mood
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the increased efficiency of synaptic transmission between certain neurons following learning
Pregunta 22
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Which of the following is the best example of a flashbulb memory?
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suddenly remembering to buy bread while standing in the checkout line at the grocery store
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recalling the name of someone from high school while looking at his or her yearbook snapshot
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remembering where you were and what you were doing on September 11, 2001, when terrorists crashed planes into the World Trade Center towers.
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remembering to make an important phone call
Pregunta 23
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Walking through the halls of his high school 10 years after graduation, Tom experienced a flood of old memories. Tom’s experience showed the role of...
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iconic memory
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context effects
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retroactive interference
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echoic memory
Pregunta 24
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Amnesia patients typically experience disruption of...
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implicit memories
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explicit memories
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iconic memories
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echoic memories
Pregunta 25
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Brad, who suffered damage to the left side of his hippocampus, has trouble remembering...
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visual designs
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locations
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all nonverbal information
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verbal information
Pregunta 26
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After finding her old combination lock, Janice can’t remember its combination because she keeps confusing it with the combination of her new lock. She is experiencing...
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proactive interference
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retroactive interference
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encoding failure
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storage failure
Pregunta 27
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Being in a bad mood after a hard day of work, Susan could think of nothing positive in her life. This is best explained as an example of...
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repression
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the spacing effect
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mood-congruent memory
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shallow processing
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