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Question 191

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Reading a romantic novel caused Consuela to recall some past experiences with a high school boyfriend.The effect of the novel on Consuela's memory retrieval is an illustration of

A) priming.
B) memory consolidation.
C) automatic processing.
D) the serial position effect.

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Question 192

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Watching a TV soap opera involving marital conflict and divorce led Andrea to recall several instances in which her husband had thoughtlessly treated her.The effect of the TV program on Andrea's recall provides an example of

A) implicit memory.
B) memory consolidation.
C) the serial position effect.
D) priming.

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Question 193

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Chunking refers to

Students often have longer-lasting memories of information from a one-semester course than from an intensive three-week course.This best illustrates the importance of

Stressful life experiences such as being raped are NOT likely to be

Damage to the ________ would most likely interfere with learning a conditioned fear response to the sight of a dog that had threatened you on several occasions.

Memory is best defined as

When asked misleading questions after observing an accident,eyewitnesses often reconstruct their initial memories of the event.This best illustrates

Retroactive interference involves the disruption of

Research by Kandel and Schwartz on California sea slugs indicates that memory formation is associated with the

The network that processes and stores explicit memories includes the

During the day,Bekah learned a lot of information about World War II.During her sleep that night,memories of this history were transferred from her hippocampus to areas within her brain's cortex.This transfer best illustrates

The tendency to recall the first and last items in a list better than the middle items is known as

Which early memory explorer was the first to make extensive use of nonsense syllables in the study of human memory?

After being asked to remember three consonants,participants in a research study counted aloud backward by threes to prevent

By releasing more serotonin,the sea slug makes certain neurons more efficient at ________ the signals necessary to learn a classically conditioned association.

The happier Judie is,the more readily she recalls positive life experiences.This best illustrates that emotional states can become

The hippocampus helps process ________ memories for long-term storage.

Our two-track mind is most clearly illustrated by the difference between

Long-term potentiation refers to