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Ebbinghaus found the task of learning new lists of nonsense syllables increasingly difficult as his research career progressed.Which of the following best explains his problem?

A) positive transfer
B) retrograde amnesia
C) proactive interference
D) retroactive interference

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By incorporating errors based on a hypnotist's leading questions,"hypnotically refreshed" memories often illustrate:

A) repression.
B) anterograde amnesia.
C) the misinformation effect.
D) proactive interference.

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Question 3

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Three basic measures of memory retention are:

An eyewitness to a bank robbery is asked to identify suspects from a police lineup.Which test of memory is being used?

A subregion within the ________ is likely to be especially active when people are learning to associate new friends' names with their faces.

By consciously rehearsing in many separate study sessions over the semester the facts you need to learn,you are most clearly taking advantage of

Jackie frequently experiences intrusive memories of an emotionally traumatic experience that she has been trying to forget.Her intrusive memories provide evidence of unsuccessful memory:

The ability to unconsciously process how many times you checked your e-mail during the past 24 hours best illustrates:

Instead of simply repeating a series of numbers he wants to remember,David mentally associates the numbers with meaningful dates such as his friends' birthdays.This best illustrates:

Deep and shallow processing refer to different types of:

After research participants have retrieved a long-term memory of a traumatic experience,researchers have attempted to use a drug or painless electroconvulsive shock to disrupt the ________ of that memory.

According to Alan Baddeley's memory model,we consciously process incoming auditory and visual information in our ________ memory.

Using your working memory to link an unfamiliar textbook glossary term with the first letter sound required to pronounce the term illustrates:

After suffering a brain injury in a motorcycle accident,Arotza cannot form new memories.He can,however,remember events before the accident.Arotza's memory difficulty most clearly illustrates:

Which measure of memory did Ebbinghaus use to assess the impact of rehearsal on the retention of nonsense syllables?

Effortful processing is encoding that requires:

The increase in synaptic firing potential that contributes to memory formation is known as:

Mrs.McBride can't consciously recall how frequently she criticizes her children because it would be too anxiety-arousing to do so.Sigmund Freud would have suggested that her poor memory illustrates:

Mice could not learn their way out of a maze if they could not produce an enzyme needed for:

A loss of an encoded memory as a result of a gradual fading of the physical memory trace best illustrates