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Question 101

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"Have you ever noticed that when people reminisce, they generally remember the good times, not the bad ones?" Sharon remarks. "That's because people are generally in a good mood when they start reminiscing," Portia explains. Portia's mood congruence theory is MOST directly consistent with the:

A) encoding specificity principle.
B) levels of processing framework.
C) False memory effect.
D) spacing effect.

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

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Question 102

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Priti is using the method of loci to learn a list of compliance techniques in her social psychology textbook. Priti is using:

A) elaborative rehearsal.
B) maintenance rehearsal.
C) massed practice.
D) distributed practice.

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

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Question 103

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A vivid imagination is the secret to a good memory.

With respect to amnesia, "antero-" is to "retro-" as _____ is to ______.

Proactive interference is to blame when Silvio can retrieve his old phone number but not his current one.

If Lola begins to list all the classes she's ever taken in college, she will most likely recall her last few classes particularly well. What is this phenomenon called?

The textbook reviews the case of Henry Molaison, also known as H. M. After brain surgery, H. M. suffered hippocampal damage. Which type of memory was BEST preserved in H. M.'s case?

The term "echoic memory" refers to auditory short-term memory.

"I know it! It's um . . . um . . . It starts with 'G'," begins a trivia game contestant excitedly. The contestant is falling prey to the _____ phenomenon.

Loftus and Palmer (1974) conducted an experiment in which participants estimated the speed of a car described as either hitting or smashing into another. The _____ variable in this experiment was _____.

Mickey is about to take his psychology final, for which he has studied very hard. Just before the exam, the person sitting next to Mickey asks him the name of the physiologist who worked on classical conditioning. Mickey suddenly realizes that he cannot quite remember the name, but he knows that it starts with a P and is two syllables long. Mickey is experiencing:

The encoding specificity principle is supported by the results of recent neuroimaging studies.

Which sequence correctly arranges the information-processing stages of memory in order of increasing capacity?

The American Psychological Association asserted that it is possible to create False memories of events that never happened.

Which explanation of forgetting is correctly described?

Long-term potentiation refers to the process whereby:

In a memory experiment, Dr. Aziz gives one group of participants a recognition test of a list of words they had seen earlier; another group is asked to recall the words. What would be a reasonable prediction regarding the relative performance of the two groups on the memory test?

The components of working memory operate independently.

Identify the four components of working memory according to the Baddeley and Hitch model. Briefly explain the function of each component.

Given its emphasis on the unconscious, the notion that disturbing memories may be repressed is particularly relevant for: