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It is helpful to think of memory as a three-step filing system: |
| | A) | storing, collating, retrieving |
| | B) | encoding, storage, retrieval |
| | C) | labeling, filing, scrolling |
| | D) | in box, filing cabinet, out box |
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) have been a great benefit to which approach to studying memory? |
| | A) | Information processing |
| | B) | Behaviorist |
| | C) | Biological |
| | D) | Health systems |
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Locating memories in long-term memory mainly involves which process of memory? |
| | A) | Encoding |
| | B) | Storage |
| | C) | Retrieval |
| | D) | Scrolling |
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Which of the following statements is true? |
| | A) | A 4-year-old's immediate recall is about as good as a 30-year-old's. |
| | B) | A 5-year-old's immediate recall is about as good as that of an adult. |
| | C) | A 5-year-old's long-term memory is as good as that of an adult. |
| | D) | None of the above |
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Moments ago the TV flashed the toll-free number Katie had been waiting for. Katie used rehearsal to retain the number in working memory long enough to find a pen and paper to write it down. However, when she finally found a pen and notepad, she realized that she no longer remembered all of the numbers. Which memory component has failed? |
| | A) | Echoic memory |
| | B) | Elaborative rehearsal buffer |
| | C) | Articulatory loop |
| | D) | Visual sketchpad |
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Which of the following would be considered a nondeclarative memory? |
| | A) | Knowledge of how to ride a motocycle |
| | B) | Visual images |
| | C) | Information from a textbook |
| | D) | Knowledge of how to play poker |
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For the last five years, Mark has been driving the same route to work. One evening he arrived home from work to find a note from his wife: "Mark, pick up Emily from Girl Scouts." He got back in his car and began driving. After 5 minutes of driving, Mark realized he was driving his route to work. Emily's Girl Scout meeting was in the opposite direction. Mark's attentional failure is due to the operation of which memory system? |
| | A) | Echoic memory |
| | B) | Implicit memory |
| | C) | Declarative memory |
| | D) | Semantic memory |
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Recalling the first day of high school utilizes _____ memory, whereas being able to recall that Shakespeare wrote Henry V in 1599 utilizes _____ memory. |
| | A) | semantic; episodic |
| | B) | episodic; semantic |
| | C) | declarative; nondeclarative |
| | D) | nondeclarative; declarative |
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Which brain structure's cellular loss may be the cause of the older adult's decreased ability to form new declarative memories? |
| | A) | Neostriatum |
| | B) | Thalamus |
| | C) | Hippocampus |
| | D) | Hypothalamus |
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The hippocampus: |
| | A) | is, for the most part, not involved in unconscious memories. |
| | B) | is only responsible for the encoding of new unconscious memories. |
| | C) | tells the frontal lobes how to store unconscious memories. |
| | D) | is responsible for directing the information to its correct storage system. |
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A patient with Alzheimer's disease who learns to dislike a person who hurts or angers them, even if they do not recognize the person or remember the incident, is demonstrating what kind of learning? |
| | A) | Direct priming |
| | B) | Emotional conditioning |
| | C) | Repressed memory |
| | D) | Sensory conditioning |
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Although young adults and older adults can be trained to increase their organization of new information, young adults benefit more than older adults. What is the likely cause of this observation? |
| | A) | Greater limits in the plasticity of older adults |
| | B) | Pathological aging processes |
| | C) | Cohort differences in the ability to learn |
| | D) | Increased developmental reserve of older adults |
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________ are strategies to improve the encoding, storage, and retrieval of information: |
| | A) | Mnemonics |
| | B) | Metamemories |
| | C) | Acronyms |
| | D) | Rehearsals |
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Remembering who was at a meeting by picturing where each person sat is an example of which form of memory aid? |
| | A) | Explicit external |
| | B) | Implicit external |
| | C) | Explicit internal |
| | D) | Implicit internal |
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Forgetting: |
| | A) | is the mind's overflow valve. |
| | B) | is an essential component of memory. |
| | C) | can be natural at any age. |
| | D) | All of the above |
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