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Question 21

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Rebecca demonstrated normal implicit repetition priming effects on a word fragment completion task but had difficulty forming new memories. It is likely Rebecca has experienced damage to her _____.

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

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Question 22

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The fact that most Americans cannot easily recall exactly what a U.S. penny looks like is BEST explained by which of the following?

A) interference
B) encoding failure
C) storage decay
D) both interference and storage decay

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Individuals suffering from _____ amnesia are unable to store new _____ memories that are believed to be processed in the _____.

The initial stage of memory is somewhat comparable to _____, involving input that _____.

Storage is _____.

Which statement is FALSE?

For most Americans, the acronym USA is _____ chunk(s) of information; the date 1776 is _____ chunk(s) of information.

Encoding refers to which of the following transfers of information?

If a professor is testing your recall ability, she is MOST likely to use _____ exams.

Remembering how to drive a car is to _____ memory as remembering how to ride a bike is to _____ memory.

A group of research participants studies Spanish, then French, and is then tested on their knowledge of the Spanish they studied. This research is designed to examine the effects of _____.

_____ conducted the first experimental studies of human memory using the _____ method.

Although Tristan did well in statistics in high school, as an art major in college he did not use statistics. He cannot remember what he once knew about the difference between descriptive and inferential statistics. This memory difficulty MOST clearly illustrates which theory of forgetting?

Our sensory memory registers allow us to _____.

Josh cannot remember his previous girlfriend's phone number because he is now frequently calling a new girlfriend. He also has trouble remembering the phone number for the new pizza delivery around the corner because he keeps recalling the phone number of the pizza delivery company located near his previous girlfriend's home. Josh's inability to remember his previous girlfriend's phone number is likely due to _____ interference, and his inability to remember the new pizza delivery phone number is likely due to _____ interference.

Sandra read a section of her textbook, but when she tried to answer the concept check questions at the end of the section, she could not even remember reading about the topics covered in the questions. It is likely that when reading, Sandra used _____ rather than _____, which is required for effective study.

Which procedure(s) would be MOST useful in studying the duration of short-term memory?

If people are forced to rehearse all words on a list equally, followed by freely recalling the words, the serial position curve is likely to reveal _____.

Encoding is _____.

According to the three-stage model of memory, in what sequence does incoming information flow through memory?