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When studying for her psychology exam,Amy would read each word from the list of key terms at the end of the chapter,read the definition of the term and then think of an example that illustrated each term.Amy was using the process of ____ to hopefully enhance her memory of the terms.


A) elaboration
B) expanded attention
C) retrieval
D) imagery

E) A) and C)
F) B) and C)

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Sarah is studying for her psychology exam and listening to the television.Studies on divided attention would suggest that


A) she would experience a negative impact on her studying since she would focus more on the TV since auditory cues will be attended to over visual cues.
B) the effect will be neutral.
C) she will experience a negative impact on her memory and not remember much of either the TV show or her studying.
D) she would experience a positive impact on her studying since the TV would serves as noise and would allow her to focus her attention on her textbook.

E) None of the above
F) C) and D)

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Meredith is trying to memorize the various eras and periods in the geologic table.She begins by memorizing the Cenozoic,Mesozoic and Paleozoic as three eras.She then memorizes the three periods from the Cenozoic,the three periods from the Mesozoic and the six periods from the Paleozoic.Meredith's method of organizing the material she is trying to remember illustrates the concept of


A) conceptual hierarchies.
B) levels-of-processing.
C) the serial-position effect.
D) source monitoring.

E) All of the above
F) A) and B)

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Ruben and Maya are describing their recent trip to Brazil.They describe all the interesting things they did while they were there,and all the interesting people that they met.In describing their trip,Ruben and Maya are largely relying on their


A) semantic memory.
B) procedural memory.
C) episodic memory.
D) prospective memory.

E) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

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Anna is currently 55 years old.When she was 7 years old,she saw her grandfather fall down the stairs after he had a stroke.At the time,she visited him in the hospital every day for the 6 months it took him to recover.Today,Anna has no memory of her grandfather,his stroke,or her visits to him in the hospital.According to Freud,Anna may be


A) showing signs of proactive interference.
B) experiencing retrograde amnesia.
C) suffering from Korsakoff's syndrome.
D) using repression to push the memories out of her conscious awareness.

E) All of the above
F) B) and C)

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The fact that your memory for a specific event may be influenced by the amount of attention you pay to the event,the level at which you process information about the event,how you organize the information,and the amount of interference you experience reflects which of the following unifying themes of your textbook?


A) Psychology is empirical.
B) Behavior is determined by multiple causes.
C) Our behavior is shaped by our cultural heritage.
D) Our experience of the world is highly subjective.

E) A) and D)
F) B) and D)

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When you attempt to recall the name of a high school classmate by imagining yourself back in the English class with her,you are making use of


A) retrieval cues.
B) context cues.
C) schemas.
D) recognition cues.

E) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

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A history teacher who asks his students to state from memory the first ten amendments to the U.S.Constitution is assessing retention by using the ____ method.


A) recall
B) recognition
C) relearning
D) recitation

E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

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Retrograde amnesia is a type of organic amnesia in which


A) new information impairs the retention of previously learned information.
B) previously learned information interferes with the retention of new information.
C) a person loses memories of events that occurred prior to a head injury.
D) a person loses memories of events that occur after a head injury.

E) All of the above
F) C) and D)

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Compare the Atkinson and Shiffrin model of short-term memory with Baddeley's more complex model of short-term memory.

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In the older model,short-term memory was...

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Briefly explain the role of attention in memory processing and discuss the debate as to whether it involves early or late selection.

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The first step in getting information in...

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McMillan and her colleagues (1997) asked a random sample of almost 10,000 adults about whether they had experienced abuse during childhood.These researchers found that


A) females were more likely to have experienced physical abuse, while males were more likely to have experienced sexual abuse.
B) males were more likely to have experienced physical abuse, while females were more likely to have experienced sexual abuse.
C) females were more likely to have experienced both physical and sexual abuse.
D) males and females experienced both physical and sexual abuse with equal frequency.

E) None of the above
F) B) and D)

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Imagine that one week ago you moved into a new apartment and got a new phone number.If someone asks for your phone number you will probably have a hard time remembering it.However,in six months,you will probably have difficulty remembering your old phone number.According to interference theory,what processes are responsible for your failure to remember both the old and the new phone number

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The negative impact of competing informa...

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Studies show that taking an exam on material increases performance on a later exam even more that studying for an equal amount of time.This is referred to as


A) elaboration.
B) sensitization.
C) the testing effect.
D) the overlearning effect.

E) C) and D)
F) A) and D)

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According to the Featured Study in the text,people most likely experience failures in destination memory because they are _________ when telling something to someone else.


A) self-focused
B) other-focused
C) heuristically biased
D) distracted

E) None of the above
F) A) and C)

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Isabella spent one hour studying American History prior to 1800,and then spent one hour studying European History prior to 1800.Victor spent one hour studying American History prior to 1800,and then spent one hour studying Calculus.In this example,it is likely that


A) Victor will have better recall of events in early American History.
B) Isabella will have better recall of events in early American History.
C) both students will have equivalent recall of events in early American History.
D) neither student will have good recall of the material studied during the second hour.

E) B) and C)
F) C) and D)

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Psychologists who doubt the accuracy of recovered memories of abuse maintain that


A) the recovered memories result from the ineffective encoding of everyday events.
B) the recovered memories are accurate accounts of earlier events.
C) the recovered memories are inadvertently created in individuals after a therapist makes suggestions of childhood abuse.
D) individuals purposely make up stories of abuse to damage the reputation of the accused individual.

E) All of the above
F) A) and C)

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Hayden is explaining the rules of his new computer game to Shane.The information about the rules is being retrieved from Hayden's


A) prospective memory.
B) declarative memory.
C) procedural memory.
D) implicit memory.

E) A) and D)
F) None of the above

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Freud's concept of repression involves a specific type of


A) retrieval failure.
B) ineffective encoding.
C) interference.
D) decay.

E) A) and D)
F) None of the above

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The process of making attributions about the origins of memories is referred to as


A) reality monitoring.
B) source monitoring.
C) buffering.
D) a contraindication.

E) B) and D)
F) All of the above

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