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Following a brain injury from a brutal knife attack,Mike is unable to consciously recall or recognize what a knife is.But he still shows a conditioned fear response to the sight of a knife.His conditioned reaction best indicates that he retains a(n) ________ memory.


A) sensory
B) repressed
C) working
D) implicit

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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


A) déjà vu.
B) proactive interference.
C) implicit memory.
D) source amnesia.

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The letters Y,M,O,M,R,E are presented.Jill remembers them by rearranging them to spell the word memory.This provides an illustration of


A) chunking.
B) automatic processing.
C) the spacing effect.
D) mnemonics.

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Researchers now recognize the active information processing that occurs in short-term memory and refer to it as ________ memory.


A) sensory
B) working
C) procedural
D) implicit

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The neural storage of a long-term memory is called


A) context-dependent memory.
B) memory consolidation.
C) the serial position effect.
D) priming.

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Jeremy can accurately process and store new information,but when he is tested on what he has learned,he becomes so anxious that he can't easily recall the new information.Jeremy most clearly demonstrates difficulty with


A) iconic memory.
B) encoding.
C) echoic memory.
D) retrieval.

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Instead of simply repeating a series of numbers he wants to remember,David mentally associates the numbers with meaningful dates such as his friends' birthdays.This best illustrates


A) chunking.
B) automatic processing.
C) procedural memory.
D) deep processing.

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Research reports of repression and recovered memories indicate that


A) people rarely recall memories of long-forgotten events.
B) most extremely traumatic life experiences are never encoded in long-term memory.
C) only those memories recovered with the help of a professional psychotherapist are likely to be reliable.
D) extremely stressful life experiences are especially likely to be well remembered.

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Alexis' parents took her to Disney World when she was 6 months old.Having viewed photos from the family vacation many times,20-year-old Alexis clearly remembers going to Disney World.This may be a result of


A) the misinformation effect.
B) source amnesia.
C) proactive interference.
D) imagination inflation.

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Psychologist Karl Lashley found that rats retained at least a partial memory of how to navigate a maze after he


A) administered a drug to the rats that prevented LTP.
B) removed small pieces of the rats' cerebral cortex.
C) injected the rats with stress hormones.
D) deprived the rats of any opportunity to sleep.

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Mentally re-creating the mood that accompanied your original learning of course material is most clearly an effective way to activate


A) acronyms.
B) déjà vu.
C) retrieval cues.
D) memory consolidation.

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Children can better remember an ancient Latin verse if they rehearse the meanings of the Latin words.This best illustrates the value of


A) iconic memory.
B) deep processing.
C) procedural memory.
D) hierarchical organization.

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In the study led by Elizabeth Loftus,two groups of observers were asked how fast two cars had been going in a filmed traffic accident.Observers who heard the vividly descriptive word "smashed" in relation to the accident later recalled


A) broken glass at the scene of the accident.
B) that the drivers of the vehicles were intoxicated.
C) that the drivers of the vehicles were males.
D) the details of the accident with vivid accuracy.

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Experimental participants demonstrated _________ memory of letters flashed for one-twentieth of a second if a high,medium,or low tone was sounded immediately _________ the letters were flashed.


A) worse: before
B) worse;after
C) better;before
D) better;after

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The inability to remember whose face appears on a five-dollar bill is mostly likely due to a failure in


A) retrieval.
B) storage.
C) encoding.
D) implicit memory.

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After learning the combination for his new locker at school,Milton is unable to remember the combination for his year-old bicycle lock.Milton is experiencing the effects of


A) source amnesia.
B) retroactive interference.
C) proactive interference.
D) automatic processing.

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The experience of emotionally stressful events is especially likely to promote


A) nondeclarative memory.
B) infantile amnesia.
C) the serial position effect.
D) tunnel vision memory.

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Because it happens without our awareness,implicit memory is also called


A) sensory memory.
B) nondeclarative memory.
C) automatic memory.
D) declarative memory.

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Mentally rehearsing the glossary definitions of unfamiliar terms in order to remember them for a later test illustrates


A) shallow processing.
B) procedural memory.
C) effortful processing.
D) echoic memory.

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An information-processing model that views memories as emerging from the simultaneous activation of interconnected neural networks is known as


A) the distribution system.
B) mnemonics.
C) connectionism.
D) parallel processing.

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