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Remembering and Forgetting
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1. What is the correct name of the memory fi les that contain related information about a specifi c topic or category?
2. "Which of the following statements is correct regarding why eyewitness testimony is not always accurate?"
3. Maya is currently enrolled in an Italian class at her local college. While on spring break, Maya travels to Italy. She is excited to practice her new skills, but when she gets there she is having trouble. Every time she tries to speak Italian, Spanish words she learned in high school come out. Th is is an example of:
4. One of the earliest psychologists to study memory and forgetting was Herman Ebbinghaus, who used himself as a subject to test his own recall of a list of nonsense syllables, previously learned LTM.
5. Retrograde amnesia can best be defi ned as:
6. The ability to transfer information about words, facts, and events (declarative information) from STM to LTM depends on activity in which part of the brain?
7. Subjects in an experiment learned a sequence of letters (PSQ). Th en they were given a three-digit number (167) and asked to count backwards by threes: 167, 164, 161, and so on, for 18 seconds. At the end they were asked to recall the three letters. The subjects showed a rapid decline in their ability to remember the letters. Th is phenomenon is known as:
8. Subjects in an experiment learned a sequence of letters (PSQ). Th en they were given a three-digit number (167) and asked to count backwards by threes: 167, 164, 161, and so on, for 18 seconds. At the end they were asked to recall the three letters. The subjects showed a rapid decline in their ability to remember the letters. Th is phenomenon is known as:
9. After studying for a test, Jack realized he remembered exactly where a particular piece of information appeared on a page in his textbook, even though he did not try to remember the item. Th is is an example of:
10. "Which of the following statements is correct regarding why eyewitness testimony is not always accurate?"
11. The method of loci includes which of the following three steps?
12. Based on Herman Ebbinghaus’s forgetting curve research using nonsense syllables, unfamiliar information is:
13. After making a mess of the playroom, Mason visualizes where each toy should be placed in the room. He is using:
14. Jayden consciously pushes the due date for his term project out of his mind, so much so that on the day it is due, Jayden must take an incomplete from his teacher. Th is is an example of:
15. Which of the following exemplifi es retrograde interference?
16. Recognition involves which of the following?
17. Talking to yourself over and over again, repeating information silently or out loud, is called:
18. Based on Herman Ebbinghaus’s forgetting curve research using nonsense syllables, unfamiliar information is:
19. Kimberly knows she did something embarrassing at her friend’s birthday party many years before, but she cannot remember what it was. Th is is an example of:
20. Recognition is to recall as:

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