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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT CHAPTER8 PSYCH EXAM
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-Guarantee passing score -120 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: When a particular pattern of neural activation is repeated enough times in short-term memory, it produces a change in the synaptic structure of the participating neurons. This is called
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consolidation.Question 2: We are more likely to remember the words "typewriter, cigarette, and fire" than the words "void, process, and inherent." This best illustrates the value of
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imagery.Question 3: Sabrina went to the store. She remembered to buy all items by reminding herself that she needed food products and that she needed nonfood products that included school supplies and cleaning aids. Sabrina made effective use of
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hierarchical organization.
Question 4: Chess masters can recall the exact positions of most pieces after a brief glance at the game board. This ability is best explained in terms of
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chunking.Question 5: Ebbinghaus discovered that the rate at which we forget newly learned information is initially
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rapid and subsequently slows down.Question 6: Spontaneous recovery of classical conditioning indicates that the individual stored information about the relationship between two events, and their later lack of a relationship, in:
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long-term memory Question 7: Remembering how to solve a jigsaw puzzle without any conscious recollection that you can do so best illustrates ________ memory.
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implicit Question 8: Your relative success in recalling various items one day after you first heard them listed in order is likely to illustrate
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a primacy effect.
Question 9: What is the best way to determine what a student knows?
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An essay test.Question 10: Forgetting that a false memory of a childhood hand injury originated from an act of imagination best illustrates
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source amnesia.
Question 11: One way to increase the amount of information stored in short-term memory is to use the technique of
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chunking.Question 12: Arnold so easily remembers his old girlfriend's telephone number that he finds it difficult to recall his new girlfriend's number. Arnold's difficulty best illustrates
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proactive interference.Question 13: The importance of effortful processing for long-term retention is best illustrated by
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the testing effect.Question 14: In an experiment, students are asked to learn a large number of nonsense words.One group is given time to chunk the words, the other group is not. The ______ being tested is that chunking will increase the ____ of remembered words.
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Hypothesis, median number Question 15: Memory is not directly observable. Therefore it would be least interesting to:
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behaviorists.Question 16: Judy is embarrassed because she momentarily fails to remember a good friend's name. Judy's poor memory most likely results from a failure in
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retrieval.Question 17: When people are asked to recall a list of words they had earlier memorized, they often substitute synonyms for some of the words on the original list. This best illustrates the effects of
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semantic encoding.
Question 18: Explicit memory is to ________ as implicit memory is to ________.
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hippocampus; cerebellum.Question 19: Which of the following is the most accurate description of our memories?
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They are reconstructed from fragments of information collected at the time of encoding.
Question 20: The greatest interference occurs when old and new material are
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similar to each other.Question 21: Proactive and retroactive interference would be expected to ____ of words remembered in a list.
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reduce the modal number.Question 22: By incorporating errors originating from a hypnotist's leading questions, "hypnotically refreshed" memories often illustrate
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the misinformation effect.Question 23: An address for obtaining tickets flashes, &the image disappears before Sergei has a chance to write it. To his surprise, however, he has retained a momentary mental image of the five-digit zip code. His experience best illustrates ________ memory.
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iconic Question 24: The _____ has a role in pairing the conditioned stimulus with the conditioned response.
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cerebellum.
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