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| Julie most accurately recalls information learned in her history classroom when her recall is tested in the very same classroom. This best illustrates |
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| The amygdala boosts activity in the brain's memory-forming areas when stimulated by |
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| The hippocampus and brain cortex display simultaneous activity rhythms during sleep. This supports the process of |
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| Damage to the ________ would most likely interfere with learning a conditioned fear response to the sight of a dog who had bitten you on several occasions. |
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| When learning occurs through classical conditioning, the California sea slug, Aplysia, releases more ________ at certain synapses. |
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| The serial position effect refers to the tendency to recall best the ________ items in a list. |
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| Words heard underwater are later better recalled underwater than on land. This best illustrates |
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| Nonspeaking children have not learned the words that we use to index much of our explicit memory. This most clearly helps to explain the occurrence of |
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| The temporary release of serotonin has been found to ________ memory formation, and the temporary release of stress hormones has been found to ________ memory formation |
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| A year and a half after directly experiencing a San Francisco earthquake, people had very accurate recall of where they had been and what they were doing at the time of the earthquake. Their recall best illustrates ________ memory |
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| Explicit memory is to ________ as implicit memory is to ________. |
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| Lars was feeling depressed at the time of his high school graduation. Lars is especially likely to recall his high school graduation when he is |
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| Memories initially processed in the hippocampus are transferred to ________ for long-term storage |
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| The hippocampus helps process ________ memories for long-term storage. |
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| The cerebellum and basal ganglia play an important role in the processing of ________ memories |
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| Shortly after you see a missing-child poster you are more likely to interpret an ambiguous adult-child interaction as a possible kidnapping. This best illustrates the impact of |
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| Exceptionally clear memories of emotionally significant events are called |
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| Hotaka can vividly recall the devastating experience of barely surviving a tsunami that took many others' lives. It is likely that the stress of that experience provoked the ________ to boost activity in the memory-forming areas of his brain |
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| Damage to the ________ would most likely interfere with a person's ability to form new memories of a family vacation trip |
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| What we learn under the influence of a drug may be more easily recalled when we are once again under the influence of that very same drug. This best illustrates |
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| Recalling a visual scene of last month's party and holding it in working memory would be most likely to activate the |
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| After hearing a list of items, peoples' immediate recall of the items is more likely to show a _____ effect than is their later recall of the items |
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| Psychologist Karl Lashley found that rats retained at least a partial memory of how to navigate a maze after he |
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| The network that processes and stores explicit memories includes the |
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| The often unconscious activation of particular associations in memory is called |
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| The rear area of the ________, which processes spatial memory, grows bigger the longer a London cab driver has been navigating the maze of city streets |
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| A baseball strikes Ashley in the head and she is momentarily knocked unconscious. The physical injury, though not serious, is most likely to interfere with Ashley's ________ memory |
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| Your relative success in recalling a dozen different names a week after you heard them listed in order is likely to illustrate |
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| Context-dependent memory best illustrates that the specific location in which we learned something often provides us with effective |
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| Deep brain structures involved in motor movement and the formation of our procedural memories for skills are the |
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| Mood-congruent memory refers to the effect of emotional states on the process of |
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| Information learned while a person is ________ is best recalled when that person is ________. |
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| Following partial recovery from a severe stroke, Mr. Yanagita has learned how to ride a horse. However, he cannot consciously remember that he has learned to do this. It is likely that he has suffered damage to his |
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| On the phone, Dominic rattles off a list of 10 grocery items for Kyoko to bring home from the store. Immediately after hearing the list, Kyoko attempts to write down the items. She is most likely to forget the items |
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| Memories of newly learned ________ are most likely to be disrupted by damage to the right hippocampus. Memories of newly learned ________ are most likely to be disrupted by damage to the left hippocampus |
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| We long remember exciting or shocking events due to activation of the limbic system's |
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| Reading a romantic novel caused Consuela to recall some old experiences with a high school boyfriend. The effect of the novel on Consuela's memory retrieval is an illustration of |
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| Compared with formerly depressed people, those who are currently depressed are more likely to recall their parents as rejecting and punitive. This best illustrates |
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