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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT MEMORIES EXAM
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-Guarantee passing score -60 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: #27 When rats are given drugs that block long-term potentiation (LTP) they:
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#27 "turn rats into rodent versions of patient HM: The animals have great difficulty remembering where they've been recently and become easily lost in a maze" Question 2: #37 Studies using fMRI have revealed that the second time an object is viewed there is _______ activity in the visual context, suggesting that priming makes perception of the object
________
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#37 less, easier Question 3: #13 The process of keeping information in short-term memory by mentally repeating it is called
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#13 rehearsal
Question 4: #25 Which statement accurately summarizes the effects of sleep on long-term storage
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#25 sleep consolidates important and emotional information Question 5: #52 In a study of false memory particip. were asked to remember the time when they got lost in a mall. Although Loftus confirmed that this never actually happened to any of the participants, false memory was implanted in about _____ % of the particp..
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#52 25% Question 6: #60 The persistence of memory is advantageous in the sense that it:
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#60 "it is probably adaptive to remember threatening or traumatic events that could pose a threat to survival."
Question 7: #10 iconic memories usually decay in about ______ or less
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#10 1 second or less
Question 8: #36 Which statement about priming is true?
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#36 implicit memory enhanced ability to think of a stimulus "as a result of a recent exposure to the stimulus during an earlier study task" Your memory might be currently primed by events that took place years earlier.Question 9: #12 In the absence of rehearsal, research has shown that information can be held in the short-term memory store for _____ seconds or less.
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"about 15 to 20 seconds"
Question 10: #14 short-term memory can hold
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#14 approximately 7 meaningful items
Question 11: #2 when learning a new word like "amygdala" Angie will remember it best if she
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#2 uses visual imagery - both visual and verbal speaking aloud and reading think about what the words mean
Question 12: #42 We rely heavily on _____ memory to envision the future.
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#42 episodic Question 13: #43 Tony has spoken Italian since he was 5 years old. In high school, he was in a Spanish class and he regularly replaced Spanish words with Italian words. Tony was
experiencing:
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#43 proactive interference
Question 14: #48 recall of when, where, and how information was acquired
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#48 source memory Question 15: #57 Damage to the amygdala is associated with:
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#57 aggression, irritability, loss of control of emotion disruption of short term memory deficits in recognizing emotions can not remember emotional events anymore than those of no emotion Question 16: #38 There are two types of explicit memory, _____ memory, which is for facts and knowledge, and ______ memory for personally experienced events.
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#38 semantic = facts episodic = personal
Question 17: #21 Research has shown that different aspects of a single memory are stored in:
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#21 "different places in the cortex"
Question 18: #59 seven sins of memory
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#59 transience, absentmindedness, blocking, memory misattribution, suggestibility, bias, persistence
Question 19: #15 Chunking is used to _____ information.
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#15 increase memory storage organizationally encode Question 20: #46 Danielle is playing Trivial Pursuit & asked to name the title of a classic TV show based on castaways on an island. Danielle feels sure she knows the name and the first
initial is G, but she cannot come up with the answer. Danielle is experiencing:
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#46 tip of the tongue Question 21: #6 Relative to semantic encoding, organizational encoding shows more activation in the of the upper left ______ lobe
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#6 upper left FRONTAL lobe Question 22: #24 The type of consolidation that occurs over a time scale of seconds to minutes
involves the transfer of memory from:
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#24 short term memory to long term memory Question 23: #18 The inability to transfer new information from short term to long term memory is defined as
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#18 Anterograde amnesia