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When a student takes notes in class, the student is |
| | A) | encoding the information |
| | B) | storing the information |
| | C) | elaborating the information |
| | D) | retrieving the information |
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A student who needs to remember the process of neuronal transmission imagines a drawing of a neuron on the floor of her room and herself walking down the neuron, describing the function of each part as she goes. This effort to improve memory is an example of |
| | A) | a script |
| | B) | a mnemonic device |
| | C) | the method of loci |
| | D) | elaboration |
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On a crowded dance floor, students are aware that they frequently bump into each other, but they retain no memories of these occurrences because they are |
| | A) | echoic memories |
| | B) | iconic memories |
| | C) | sensory memories |
| | D) | episodic memories |
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People can remember telephone numbers for about 30 seconds without any using any other memory strategy because of the capacity of |
| | A) | sensory memory |
| | B) | short-term memory |
| | C) | implicit memory |
| | D) | episodic memory |
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A student applying the formula to calculate a correlation coefficient is using |
| | A) | iconic memory |
| | B) | episodic memory |
| | C) | implicit memory |
| | D) | working memory |
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A student asks a friend for information about a class the friend is currently taking. The information the friend provides will come from her |
| | A) | procedural memory |
| | B) | implicit memory |
| | C) | explicit memory |
| | D) | prospective memory |
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A college student who bases a class presentation on his grandfather's memories of rationing during World War II is relying on his grandfather's |
| | A) | prospective memory |
| | B) | retrospective memory |
| | C) | implicit memory |
| | D) | procedural memory |
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A college student who borrowed money from a friend several days ago remembers to repays the money when he sees his friend several days later. This behavior is an example of |
| | A) | prospective memory |
| | B) | long-term memory |
| | C) | working memory |
| | D) | sensory memory |
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A college student who last played baseball when he was 12 years old is surprised by his ability to hit a softball while playing on an intramural team. His ability can be explained by |
| | A) | retrospective memory |
| | B) | procedural memory |
| | C) | state-dependent memory |
| | D) | eidetic memory |
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After receiving an assignment to write a term paper, a student purchases a supply of note cards, goes to the library and conducts a computer literature search to identify sources of information about her topic, locates the references, and begins taking notes. The student's behavior is an example of |
| | A) | a procedural memoryx |
| | B) | elaboration |
| | C) | a script |
| | D) | eidetic imagery |
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A college student walking across campus is greeted by someone she has met, but she can only remember that his name begins with T and that her roommate introduced them at a restaurant. This memory difficulty is an example of |
| | A) | decay theory |
| | B) | the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon |
| | C) | proactive interference |
| | D) | parallel distributed processing |
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College students who are taking a test are |
| | A) | encoding information |
| | B) | storing information |
| | C) | elaborating information |
| | D) | retrieving information |
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A student preparing for a biology test learned the definitions of the following terms the day before the test: endemic, allopatric, sympatric, dimorphic, genotypic, and phenotypic. Between classes on the day of the test, which definitions should the student review most carefully? |
| | A) | endemic & phenotypic |
| | B) | sympatric & dimorphic |
| | C) | genotypic & phenotypic |
| | D) | endemic & allopatric |
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A young woman studied French in high school and Italian in college. She is communicating with a French business associate and often finds herself using some Italian words in her e-mail messages. This memory failure is |
| | A) | proactive interference |
| | B) | retroactive interference |
| | C) | decay |
| | D) | transience |
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A college student who suffered a serious head injury in an automobile crash cannot remember the names of people he now meets. This memory disorder is an example of |
| | A) | anterograde amnesia |
| | B) | transience |
| | C) | retroactive interference |
| | D) | episodic memory |
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