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"She did WHAT?" your roommate exclaims as you relate an anecdote about a mutual friend.Your roommate is processing your story in ___ memory.

A) working
B) sensory
C) semantic
D) long-term

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Question 32

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Representations based on the meaning of information are referred to as ___ codes.

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Kenneth and his wife are watching their oldest son graduate from high school,and it is making them remember all the other big achievements he has had: The time he caught the biggest fish at the Yacht Club,the time he got a grand slam and they won the provincial championships,or the time he accidentally scheduled two dates on the same night.What type of memory would Kenneth and his wife be using to remember all these events?

Elite athletes who play team sports can quickly evaluate game dynamics and respond more quickly than novice players because they see meaningful patterns in the locations of opposing players.This is an example of ___.

When false information is derived from an internal source (namely our own minds),it is referred to as memory distortions due to imagination.

Completing a rental application,Pippa finds she can't recall one of her previous addresses,as she's had several addresses since.Pippa is experiencing ___ interference.

Omar is going to be 67 years old this spring and is aging as an average adult of his age would.If his memory is also aging in an average way,which type of memory can he expect to see improvements in?

What evidence suggests that information is processed in parallel?

Mnemonic devises are examples of elaborative rehearsal.

Describe how information is encoded and transferred among different memory stores and what we can do to enhance encoding.

Describe how the brain is involved in memory.

The association areas of the visual cortex are activated in both accurate and inaccurate memories.

Which of the following sequences best reflects the order of stages in the three-stage memory model,from first to last?

The difference between explicit and implicit memories is that explicit memories are memories ___,while implicit memories are memories ___.

Laurent,a first-year university student,seems to have forgotten a painful and humiliating experience he endured earlier in his adolescence.Dr.MacEwan suggests that Laurent has avoided rehearsing the event and avoided situations that might provide cues for its retrieval.Dr.Norris counters that Laurent unconsciously pushed the event from his awareness.Dr.MacEwan is probably a ___ psychologist,while Dr.Norris is likely a ___ psychologist.

Tamiko was asked to study a list of 12 words then write down as many of the words as she could remember.She found that she was able to remember the first four words better than the rest of the words.This is called the ___ effect.

Craik and Lockhart's levels of processing model would predict that ___ would result in the best recall of previously studied content.

The repeated stimulation of certain neurons that greatly increases the likelihood that the same neurons will respond to future stimulation of the same kind is called ___.

What is the difference between automatic processing and effortful processing?

Which type of memory disorders are associated with physical causes?