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Callie visited a dance club where the songs were "oldies but goodies." Although she had not gone dancing in more than 20 years,Callie remembered the lyrics to most of the songs.This was MOST likely because:


A) the hippocampus ages more slowly than does the rest of the brain.
B) semantic memories are more easily recalled than are procedural memories.
C) the information was stored in her long-term memory.
D) the visuo-spatial sketchpad encoded this information.

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

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Kandel's work with Aplysia demonstrated that short-term memory involves the growth of new synaptic connections among neurons.

A) True
B) False

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Jerry is asked to think of a word that rhymes with "motor." Jimmy is asked to think about how a motor works.The next day,both men are asked,"Hey,what was the word that you heard yesterday that rhymes with 'voter'?" _____ will be more likely to recall "motor" because _____.


A) Jerry;rhyme judgements almost always result in better encoding than do semantic judgements
B) Jerry;the encoding context matched the retrieval context
C) Jimmy;semantic judgements almost always result in better encoding than do rhyme judgements
D) Jimmy;the retrieval context was sufficiently dissimilar from the encoding context

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

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In a typical collaborative memory experiment,participants first encode a list of words _____ and then later on attempt to recall those words _____.


A) by themselves OR with others;with others
B) with others;by themselves
C) with others;by themselves OR with others
D) by themselves;with others OR by themselves

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

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Rita has meetings all week.She finds that,by Friday,she cannot clearly remember the meetings that she attended earlier in the week because she confuses them with the meetings she had on the last two days of the week.This illustrates:


A) proactive interference.
B) retroactive interference.
C) absentmindedness.
D) blocking.

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

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In a classic memory study by Peterson and Peterson (1959) ,participants were given consonant strings to remember-such as DBX and HLM-and then instructed to count backwards from 100 by 3.After a variable amount of time (delay) ,the participants were asked to recall the consonant strings.Which statement accurately describes the results of the experiment?


A) There was no decrease in recall accuracy until the delay reached about 20 seconds.
B) A 3-second delay decreased accuracy by almost 80%.
C) A 20-second delay decreased accuracy by over 80%.
D) There was no decrease in recall accuracy until the delay reached about 7 seconds.

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

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Relative to semantic encoding,organizational encoding shows more activation of the upper left _____ lobe.


A) frontal
B) temporal
C) parietal
D) occipital

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

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The type of consolidation that occurs over a time scale encompassing years involves the transfer of memory from:


A) sensory memory to working memory.
B) short-term memory to long-term memory.
C) the cortex to the amygdala.
D) the hippocampus to the cortex.

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

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Short-term memory can hold approximately _____ meaningful items.


A) 3
B) 7
C) 12
D) 15

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

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Yo-Yo Ma,a world-famous musician,left his multimillion-dollar cello in the trunk of a taxi.What might have caused him to forget something so important to him?


A) lack of retrieval cues
B) blocking
C) absentmindedness
D) transience

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

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A fast-decaying store of auditory information is referred to as _____ memory.


A) rehearsal
B) perception
C) echoic
D) iconic

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

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Eric Kandel won a Nobel Prize in 2000 for his research investigating:


A) the cognitive components of working memory.
B) the neural basis of long-term memory.
C) the fallibility,or "sins" of memory.
D) novel drugs that erase memories of traumatic events.

E) All of the above
F) None of the above

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The hippocampus appears to be critically involved in the formation of new _____ memories.


A) procedural
B) episodic
C) semantic
D) primed

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

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Use the following to answer questions : Scenario II Famous within psychology,patient HM had parts of his temporal lobes-including his hippocampus-removed to stop incurable and life-threatening epileptic seizures.The surgery was successful;however,patient HM was left with a severe case of anterograde amnesia.Subsequent tests found that his short-term and implicit memory systems were not affected by the surgery. -(Scenario II) Based on the information provided,this scenario BEST illustrates which psychological research method?


A) double-blind experiment
B) correlational design
C) naturalistic observation
D) case method

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

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Echoic memories last _____ iconic memories.


A) slightly longer than
B) approximately the same length of time as
C) slightly shorter than
D) much longer than

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

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The scent of a former partner's cologne may serve as a strong retrieval cue,bringing instant thoughts of him or her.

A) True
B) False

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Conceptual priming is an explicit memory,and perceptual priming is an implicit memory.

A) True
B) False

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After her surgery,Sona cannot remember anything that occurred in the hour leading up to the surgery in which she was anaesthetized and rendered unconscious.This mild form of _____ amnesia is MOST likely due to the head injury preventing memory _____.


A) anterograde;consolidation.
B) anterograde;rehearsal.
C) retrograde;consolidation.
D) retrograde;rehearsal.

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

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While gardening,Greg tripped over a coil of wound-up hose and fell face first on the pavement.He suffered damage to the hippocampal region in his brain.While recovering in the hospital,he consistently greeted his friends and family as though he was seeing them again after a long time,even though he had visited with them the previous night.He often forgot what he did during the day.However,he could still recall adventures from his teenage years without effort.Greg MOST likely has:


A) retrograde amnesia.
B) anterograde amnesia.
C) long-term potentiation.
D) short-term potentiation.

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

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_____ memory refers to how people remember in groups.


A) Social
B) Collaborative
C) Prospective
D) Collective

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

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