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Which of the following brain structures is central to remembering how to perform well-learned skills?

A) hippocampus
B) hypothalamus
C) basal ganglia
D) amygdala

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Question 182

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Although Ron typically smokes two packs of cigarettes a day,he recalls smoking little more than a pack a day.This poor memory best illustrates

A) the misinformation effect.
B) motivated forgetting.
C) the spacing effect.
D) storage decay.

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Three years after people completed a Spanish course,they had forgotten much of the vocabulary they had learned.This research finding indicates that information is lost while it is

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

Nancy was daydreaming about her college plans during a boring lecture on the history of computers.She doesn't remember that ENIAC was the first functioning digital computer because she wasn't paying attention.Nancy's poor memory is best explained in terms of

Explicit memories are

Among contemporary memory researchers,increasing numbers think that ________ rarely,if ever,occurs.

The encoding of information directly into long-term storage without the aid of working memory best illustrates

Rehearsal is to encoding as retrieval cues are to

When an eyewitness to an auto accident is asked to describe what happened,which measure of memory is being used?

Research on young children's false eyewitness recollections has indicated that

Which measure of memory did Ebbinghaus use to assess the impact of rehearsal on the retention of nonsense syllables?

The retention of encoded information over time refers to

Another term for implicit memory is ________ memory.

We typically encode explicit memories by means of

The inability to form new memories is called

Source amnesia refers to

Research on the storage of memory indicates that

A measure of your memory in which you need to pick the correctly learned answer from a displayed list of options is known as a measure of

Because her memory trace has faded,Dr.Jordan remembers much less about the organic chemistry she once learned well as a medical student.Her memory loss best illustrates