Psych Exam #3 Pt. 3

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The conscious repetition of information to maintain it in memory is called

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rehearsal

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Repression is an example of

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motivated forgetting

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Whenever he feels sexually jealous, David is flooded with painful memories of instances when he thought his girlfriend was flirting with other men. David's experience best illustrates

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mood-congruent memory

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Chess masters can recall the exact positions of most pieces after a brief glance at the game board. This ability is best explained in terms of

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chunking

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A type of motivated forgetting in which anxiety-arousing memories are blocked from conscious awareness is known as

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repression

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Shortly after hearing a list of items, people tend to recall the last items in the list especially quickly and accurately. This best illustrates

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a recency effect

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The rear area of the ________ grows bigger the longer a London cab driver has been navigating the maze of city streets

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hippocampus

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Chunking refers to

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the organization of information into meaningful units

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The process of getting information out of memory is called

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retrieval

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Cerebellum is to ________ memory as hippocampus is to ________ memory.

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implicit; explicit

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Semantic encoding refers to the processing of

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meanings

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The title of a song is on the tip of Gerard's tongue, but he cannot recall it until someone mentions the songwriter's name. Gerard's initial inability to recall the title was most likely caused by

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retrieval failure.

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Proactive interference refers to the

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disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information

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Automatic processing and effortful processing are two types of

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encoding

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The process of encoding refers to

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getting information into memory

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The hippocampus plays a critical role in ________ memory

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explicit

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Complete this analogy: Fill-in-the-blank test questions are to multiple-choice questions as

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recall is to recognition

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Jamille performs better on foreign language vocabulary tests if she studies the material 15 minutes every day for 8 days than if she crams for 2 hours the night before the test. This illustrates what is known as

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the spacing effect

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After learning the combination for his new locker at school, Milton is unable to remember the combination for his year-old bicycle lock. Milton is experiencing the effects of

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retroactive interference

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The misinformation effect provides evidence that memory

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may be reconstructed during recall according to how questions are framed