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| Which of the following best describes the typical forgetting curve? |
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| A rapid initial decline in retention becoming stable thereafter. |
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| Jenkins and Dallenbach found that memory was better in people who were. . . |
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| Asleep during the retention interval, presumably because interference was reduced. |
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| Which of the following measures of retention is the least sensitive in triggering retrieval? |
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| Amnesia victims typically have experienced damage to the _____ of the brain. |
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| According to the serial position effect, when recalling a list of words you should have the greatest difficulty with those. . . |
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| In the middle of the list. |
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| Experimenters gave people a list of words to be recalled. When the participants were tested after a delay, the items that were best recalled were those. . . |
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| At the beginning of the list. |
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| Which type of words processing-visual, acoustic, or semantic-results in the greatest retention? |
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| Lashley's studies, in which rats learned a maze and then has various parts of thier brains surgically removes, showed that the memory. . . |
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| Reamined no matter which area of the brain was tampered with. |
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| The disruption of memory that occurs when football players have been knocked out provides evidence for the importance of. . . |
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| Consolidation in the formation of new memories. |
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| Long-term potentiation refers to. . . |
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| The increased efficiency of synaptic transmission between certain neurons following learning. |
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| Repression is an example of. . . |
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| Studies by Loftus and Palmer, in which people were quizzed about a film of an accident, indicate that. . . |
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| People's recall may easily be affected by misleading information. |
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| Which of the following was NOT recommended as a strategy for imporving memory? |
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| The process of getting information out of memory storage is called. . . |
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| Amnesia patients typically experience disruption of. . . |
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| Information is maintained in short-term memory only briefly unless it it. . . |
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| Textbook chapters are often organized into ____ to facilitate information processing. |
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| Memory researchers are suspicious of long-repressed memories of traumatic events that are "recovered" with the aid of drugs or hypnosis because... |
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| It is easier to recall information that has just been presented when the information. . . |
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| Is heard rather than seen. |
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| The misinformation effect provides evidence that memory. . . |
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| May be recontructed during recall according to how questions are framed. |
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| According to memory researcher Daniel Schacter, blocking occurs when. . . |
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| Information is on the tip of our tounge, but we can't get it out. |
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