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Psychology
100

Researchers have found that memory was better in people who were...

asleep during the retention interval, persuasively because interference as reduced.

100

The three steps in memory information processing are:

encoding, storage, retrieval.

100

Memory techniques that involve vivid imagery are called

mnemonic devices

100

The eerie feeling of having been somewhere before is an example of:

déjà vu.

100

The misinformation effect provides evidence that memory:

may be reconstructed during recall according to how questions are framed.

200

Kandel and Schwartz have found that when learning occurs, more of the neurotransmitter ___ is released into synapses. 

Serotonin

200

Visual sensory memory is referred to as:

iconic memory

200

One way to increase the amount of information in memory is to group it into larger, familiar units. This process is referred to as:

chunking

200

Which area of the brain is most important in the processing of implicit memories?

cerebellum

200

Which of the following was not recommended as a strategy for improving memory?

speed reading

300

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...

at the beginning of the list.

300

Echoic memories fade after approximately:

3 to 5 seconds.

300

Research on memory construction reveals that memories

reflect a person's biases and assumptions

300

Which of the following measures of retention is the least sensitive in triggering retrieval?

recall

300

According to the serial position effect, when recalling a list of words you should have the greatest difficulty with those:

in the middle of the list.

400

Studies by Loftus and Palmer, in which people were quizzed about a film of an accident, indicate that...

people's recall may easily b affected by misleading information. 

400

Which of the following is not a measure of retention?

retrieval

400

In Sperling's memory experiment, research participants were shown three rows of three letters, followed immediately by a low-, medium-, or high tone. The participants were able to report:

any one of the three rows of letters.

400

Long-term potentiation refers to:

the increased efficiency of synaptic transmission between certain neurons following learning.

400

Which of the following best describes the typical forgetting curve?

a rapid initial decline in retention becoming stable thereafter

500

Memory researchers are suspicious of long-repressed memories of traumatic events that are "recovered" with the aid of hypnosis because...

of all of these reasons.

500

Our short-term memory span is approximately ________ items.

7

500

Memory for skills is called:

implicit memory.

500

Information is maintained in short-term memory only briefly unless it is:

rehearsed.

500

Hypnotically "refreshed" memories may prove inaccurate—especially if the hypnotist asks leading

memory construction.