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24 Cards in this Set
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What are the three basic processes in memory?
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Encoding, storage and retrieval
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Which of the following statements best represents current thinking about early-selection versus late selection theories of attention?
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The ocation of the attention my filter flexibility
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Which of the following reserachers conducted a classic experiment that demonstrated the breif duration of information in sensory memory
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George Sperling
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What is involving in chunking?
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REarranging incoming information into meaningful or farmiliar patterns
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Penfiels studies suggest that long-lost memories can be elicited through electrical stimulation of the brain. If so, what does this suggest oculd be a cause of forgetting?
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REtrieval Failure
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What General term is used to describe models of memory that are based on the assumption that cognitive processess depend on patterns of activation in nterconnected omputional networks?
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Paralell dstributed processing models
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What is source monitoring?
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The tendency for recall of episocidc memory to be more accurate than semantic memory
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Whcih measure of memory requires subjects to reporduce information on their own, wihtout any cues?
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Recall
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According to intereference theory, why do peopel forget?
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Competition from other material
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James McGaugh has theorized htat hormones may influence memory storage by modulating activity in the brain. Which of the following is implicated by McGaughs Theory?
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THe amygdala and a variety of neurotransmitter systems in the brain
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What is the primary sysmptom associated with anterograde AMnesia?
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A person does not create memories of events that occur after a head injury
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Which memory system ocntains the memory for how to type on a typewriter or drive an automobile
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Procedural Memory system
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According to the notion of Deep processing, you can learn material most effectivley by relating information to which of hte following?
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Your own life and experience
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Whcih of the following terms is defined as the tendency to mould our interpretation of the past to fit how events actually turned out?
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Hindsight Bias
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According to Craik And LockHart, when individuals think about the actual objects or actions that the words they are trying to memorize represent, they are using _____________ encoding.
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Semantic
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A ___________ is an organized cluster of knowledge about a particular object or event that developes through experience with the object or event in question
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Schema
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The multiple-choice question is best decribed as an example of a __________ measure of retention.
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recognition
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The BAsic Tenet of the ___________ theory of forgetting is that if you fail to use a memory, over time, its brain trace will fade.
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decay
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Researchers who question the accuracy of repressed memories use evidence from studies of the ____________ deffect and source-monitoring errors
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misinformation
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Evidence from recent studies indicates that the _______________ may be critical to the formation of memories for learned fears and other emotional memories
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amydala
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your birthday and your mothers maiden name are MOST likely to be contained in your _______________ memory system.
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Declaritive or Episodic
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____________ memory involves remembering events from the past or previously learned inforfmation.
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Retrospective
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The _________ deffect occurs when subjects show better recall for items at the begginning and end of a list than for items in the middle
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serial position
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Enhancing memory by associating concrete word with an abstract word, and generatiing an image to reprsent the conrete word, is known as the _________ method.
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keyword
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