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Question 61

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Information learned while a person is ________ is best recalled when that person is ________.

A) sad;happy
B) drunk;sober
C) angry;calm
D) drunk;drunk

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

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Question 62

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After reading a newspaper report suggesting that drunken driving might have contributed to a recent auto accident,several people who actually witnessed the accident began to remember the driver involved as traveling more recklessly than was actually the case.This provides an example of

A) proactive interference.
B) déjà vu.
C) automatic processing.
D) the misinformation effect.

E) B) and C)
F) A) and B)

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Question 63

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Damage to the hippocampus would most likely interfere with a person's ability to learn

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

Four-year-old Aaron doesn't recall ever seeing a hypodermic needle,and he can't remember the series of painful injections he received when he was a 2-year-old.When shown a hypodermic needle,however,he reacted with a classically conditioned fear response.Aaron's fear reaction indicates that he retains a(n) ________ memory.

The encoding of many aspects of a remembered event simultaneously best illustrates our brain's capacity for

During her psychology test,Kelsey could not remember the meaning of the term mnemonics.Surprisingly,however,she accurately remembered that the term appeared toward the bottom of a right-hand page in her textbook.Her memory of this incidental information is best explained in terms of

For a fraction of a second after the lightning flash disappeared,Ileana retained a vivid mental image of its ragged edges.Her experience most clearly illustrates the nature of ________ memory.

The misinformation effect best illustrates the dynamics of

Consciously repeating the name of a new classmate you want to remember illustrates

Cheri doesn't remember that she got sick after eating oatmeal on several occasions in early childhood.However,whenever she smells oatmeal now she experiences a classically conditioned feeling of nausea.Cheri's conditioned reaction indicates that she retains a(n) ________ memory.

Consciously recalling an event that you experienced during your last year of high school best illustrates

We are unable to consciously attend to most of the sights and sounds that are continually bombarding us.This fact most clearly contributes to

The disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of previously learned information is called

Philippe has just completed medical school.In reflecting on his years of formal education,he is able to recall the names of all his instructors except the fifth-grade teacher who flunked him.According to Freud,his forgetting illustrates

Young adults have ________ working-memory capacity than children and ________ working-memory capacity than older adults.

Explicit memory is also known as

Activating memories of your childhood by forming vivid mental images of various locations in your childhood home best illustrates

Source amnesia helps to explain

While taking the final exam in American history,Marie was surprised and frustrated by her momentary inability to remember the name of the current president of the United States.Her difficulty most clearly illustrates