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Question 151

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Which of the following statements about flashbulb memories is true?

A) Flashbulb memories tend to be about as accurate as other types of memories.
B) People feel unconfident about their recall of flashbulb memories.
C) A major news event automatically causes a person to store a flashbulb memory.
D) Your memory of how you felt at the onset of a flashbulb memory rarely changes over time.

E) B) and D)
F) A) and D)

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Question 152

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Short-term memory is where information is held while it is conscious and being used.

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When newer information interferes with the retrieval of older information,this is called _____________.

Encoding failure is often the reason some memories cannot be retrieved,because they were never actually encoded in the first place.

When Greg tried to remember the name of his employer's wife,he had trouble getting the right name.At first he thought it might be Sandy or Candy but finally realized that it was Mandy.Greg's confusion is evidence that short-term memories are primarily encoded in __________ form.

When given a list of items to remember,people tend to do better at recalling the last items on the list.This is known as the ______.

The process we use to notice important stimuli and ignore irrelevant ones is ______.

Declarative memory can be divided into short-term memory and working memory.

Last week Lisa took an abnormal psychology test and did not miss a question.However,when a guest speaker came to class a week later to talk about schizophrenia,she had trouble remembering some of the relevant class material.She remembered even less about the topic when she saw a news report on schizophrenia a month later.What memory phenomenon explains what Lisa is experiencing?

You are invited to take part in a study by a researcher trying to replicate the work of Hermann Ebbinghaus.What might this researcher ask you to do?

Shalissa has two exams today.One is in French and the other is in history.Last night she studied French before history.When she gets to her French test,all she can remember is history! Shalissa's memory is suffering from ____________.

One task useful in testing short-term memory capacity is the digit-span test.

Recall is a type of memory retrieval in which the information to be retrieved must be "pulled" out of memory with few or no cues.

Iconic memory and echoic memory represent what many theorists call:

Hermann Ebbinghaus found that memory is best immediately after we learn information,and we gradually forget more as time passes.What name is given to this observation?

Which model of memory proposes that the deeper a person processes information,the better it will be remembered?

Under most circumstances,when you are intentionally trying to remember an item of information,_____________ is an easier task than _____________.

What are the components of the information processing model in order?

Examples of tests that use recognition are ___________ tests.

The best place to take your biology exam to ensure good retrieval of biology concepts is in _____________.