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Remembering to pick up your little brother at his soccer practice and dinner for both of you on your way home from class tomorrow is an example of ____ memory.
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prospective
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Bruce has just arrived at his 20th high school reunion. He notices his high school sweetheart across the banquet hall. Seeing her reminds him of the painful moment they broke up all those years ago. In his memory, he can see himself and his ex-girlfriend sitting at a purple booth in front of the deli at the mall food court. Bruce is most likely experiencing a(n)
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autobiographical memory from an observer perspective.
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The observation that older adults often become nostalgic for the “good old days” reflects the life-narrative hypothesis which states that
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our memories change as we live longer and have more “lifetime periods” to draw events from.
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Flashbulb memory is best represented by which of the following statements?
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It is memory for the circumstances surrounding how a person heard about an emotional event that remains especially vivid but not necessarily accurate over time.
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Bartlett’s experiment in which English participants were asked to recall the “War of the Ghosts” story that was taken from the French Indian culture illustrated the
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constructive nature of memory.
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The misinformation effect can be explained by
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all of the above
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______ is an average representation of a category.
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A prototype
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Which of the following is an example of the sentence verification technique?
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Indicate whether the following statement is true:
An apple is a fruit. YES NO |
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If we were conducting an experiment on the effect knowledge has on categorization, we might compare the results of expert and non-expert groups. Suppose we compare horticulturalists to people with little knowledge about plants. If we asked the groups to name, as specifically as possible, five different plants seen around campus, we would predict that the expert group would primarily label plants on the _____ level, while the non-expert group would primarily label plants on the _____ level.
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subordinate; basic
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. Collins and Loftus modified the original semantic network theory of Collins and Quillian to satisfy some of the criticisms of the original model. However, their revised model was not immune to criticism. One criticism of Collins and Loftus’ semantic network theory is that it
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is of little explanatory value because it can explain just about any result.
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