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The graph that shows the amount of memorized information remembered after varying lengths of time is called the


A) scatter plot of memory loss.
B) histogram of retention.
C) memory interference scatter plot.
D) curve of forgetting.

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When memorizing a list of 20 names, concentrating more on the eighth name through the fourteenth name shows that you are aware of the importance of which of the following in learning lists?


A) selection
B) organization
C) the serial-position effect
D) part-learning

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Regarding interference as a cause of forgetting, which of the following statements is TRUE?


A) The more different the school subjects studied, the more interference that is likely to occur between the two subjects.
B) The interference effects apply primarily to memories of verbal information, rather than learning a motor skill.
C) Retroactive interference occurs when old memories interfere with the retrieval of newer memories.
D) Proactive interference refers to the tendency for new memories to interfere with the retrieval of old memories.

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You and your husband go to the movies.About 20 minutes into the movie, he asks you who that actress is that just came on the screen and if she is on some television show you watch.You know that you know her name but you just cannot recall it.This illustrates


A) the savings score.
B) suppression state.
C) encoding failure.
D) the tip-of-the tongue state.

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As your friend reads her shopping list to you in her apartment, you are aware that the radio is playing in the background.The fact that you remember what your friend said and not what the announcer on the radio said can be attributed to


A) short-term memory.
B) redintegrative memory.
C) selective attention.
D) constructive processing.

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When we want to use knowledge from long-term memory to answer a question, the information is returned to __________ memory.


A) episodic
B) eidetic
C) short-term
D) sensory

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A person is able to move information to the second memory stage by focusing on a selected portion of a sensory input, a process known as


A) selective attention
B) constructive processing.
C) priming.
D) consolidation.

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In a classic study on memory, the researcher showed people 2,560 photographs at a rate of one every ten seconds.Each person was then shown 280 pairs of photographs with each pair having an "old" picture (from the first set of photos) and a similar "new" image.The subjects were able to tell which photograph they had seen before in what percent of the paired photographs?


A) only five percent
B) 15 to 25 percent
C) 45 to 55 percent
D) 85 to 95 percent

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A professional memorizer is known as a(n)


A) ​mnemonist.
B) ​telepath.
C) ​medium.
D) ​psychic.

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The cognitive interview technique is most likely to be useful in which of the following situations?


A) A lawyer is preparing to defend a client in a case involving an automobile accident.
B) A physician is evaluating the effectiveness of a drug treatment for hyperactivity.
C) A psychologist is treating a child for anxiety related to the death of a parent.
D) A recruiter is interviewing candidates for service in a foreign embassy.

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Memories that can be fully expressed only as actions (or "know-how")and represent the most basic "automatic" elements of conditioning, learning, and memory are called __________ memories.

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The type of forgetting that results from a useful memory never being formed in the first place is known as


A) proactive interference.
B) retroactive interference.
C) repression.
D) encoding failure.

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Explain why recognition is usually superior to recall; and describe how recognition is used by police departments, including how the use of certain distracters can make recognition inaccurate and how this inaccuracy can be minimized.

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Ten days after taking a psychology exam, Michael took a second exam on the same material (without reviewing) and scored only half as high as he did on the original exam.If he were tested yet again ten days later without additional study, the curve of forgetting suggests his score would be about


A) the same as on the second exam.
B) one third of his score on the first exam.
C) 20 percent of his score on the first exam.
D) one half of his score on the second exam.

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To be stored for a long time, information must pass through all three stages of which model of memory?


A) Atkinson-Shiffrin
B) Hobson-McCarley
C) Melzack-Wall
D) Darley-Latané

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An excellent typist is given a new computer with a keyboard that has the keys arranged on the basis of how frequently the letters are used, as opposed to the standard keyboard arrangement.Until the typist learns this new keyboard, his familiarity with the standard keyboard will result in his being plagued by


A) proactive interference.
B) retroactive interference.
C) sore fingers and a bruised ego.
D) repression.

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Research has found that information that people learn under the influence of a drug is best remembered when the drugged state occurs again.This laboratory experiment illustrates


A) eidetic imagery.
B) the serial position effect.
C) state-dependent learning.
D) the tip-of-the-tongue state.

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Which of the following results from having more elaborate memory networks?


A) more retrieval cues
B) less redintegration
C) more eidetic imagery
D) more encoding failure

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Psychologist Anders Ericsson believes that, in most cases, an exceptional memory


A) requires superior intelligence.
B) involves people who have brains that store information significantly different than persons with normal memories.
C) is an innate gift that cannot be learned.
D) is a learned extension of normal memory.

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In a classic experiment, a psychologist read a short passage in Greek to his son every day when the boy was between 15 months and 3 years of age.At age 8, he was asked to recall the passage, to recognize the passage, and later to memorize the original quotations and others of equal difficulty.The results of the experiment showed that the boy was


A) able to recall the passage at age eight.
B) able to recognize the passage when presented with the original passage and other Greek passages.
C) able to exhibit evidence of relearning by memorizing the original passage 25 percent faster than the other Greek passages.
D) unable to do any of these three memory tasks.

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