Ch 9 Myers Psychology
It is easier to remember "what sobriety conceals, alcohol reveals" than to recall "what sobriety conceals,
alcohol unmasks." This best illustrates the value of:
Employing the single word "HOMES" to remember the names of North America's
five Great Lakes best
illustrates the use of:
Which of the following is believed to be the biological basis for learning and memory?
Mr. Nydam suffers amnesia and is unable to remember playing golf on a particular course. Yet the more he
plays the course, the more his game improves. His experience illustrates the need to distinguish between:
Memories of emotional events are especially likely to be facilitated by activation of the:
A measure of your memory in which you need to pick the correctly learned answer from a displayed list of
options is known as a measure of:
After suffering a brain injury in a motorcycle accident, Adam cannot form new memories. He can, however,
remember his life experiences before the accident. Adam's memory difficulty most clearly illustrates:
The extensive rehearsal necessary to encode nonsense syllables best illustrates:
At a block party, Cyndi is introduced to eight new neighbors. Moments later, she can only remember the names of the first three and
last two neighbors. Her experience illustrates:
Although Jordan could not recall the exact words of a poem he had recently heard, he clearly remembered
the
meaning of the poem. This best illustrates the importance of:
The happier Judie is, the more readily she recalls her teachers as warm and generous. This best illustrates
that emotional states can be:
During her evening Spanish language exam, Janica so easily remembers the French vocabulary she studied
that morning that she finds it difficult to recall the Spanish vocabulary she rehearsed that afternoon. Her
difficulty best illustrates:
Mrs. McBride can't remember how frequently she criticizes her children because it would be too
embarrassing for her. Sigmund Freud would have suggested that her poor memory illustrates:
When 6-year-old
Teresa reported that she had been verbally threatened by a stranger in a passing car, her mother
asked her what color car the man was driving. Several hours later Teresa mistakenly recalled that she had been
threatened by a male driver rather than by a female passenger. Teresa's experience best illustrates:
Recalling something that you had once merely imagined happening as something you had directly
experienced best illustrates:
Many people can easily recall exactly what they were doing when they heard the news of the 9/11 terrorist
tragedy. This best illustrates ________ memory. When you hear familiar words in your native language, it is
virtually impossible not to register the meanings
of the words. This best illustrates the importance of:
An understanding of the spacing effect provides insight into effective strategies for:
Ebbinghaus observed that it is much easier to learn meaningful material than to learn nonsense material.
This best illustrates the advantage of:
The method of loci relies heavily on the use of:
The combination of individual letters into familiar words enables you to remember more of the letters in this
sentence. This best illustrates the value of:
When you have to make a long-distance call, dialing an unfamiliar area code plus a 7-digit number, you are likely
to have trouble retaining the just-looked-up number. This best
illustrates the limited capacity of _ memory.
Certain amnesic patients are incapable of recalling activities, yet they can be conditioned to blink their eyes
in response to a specific sound. They have most likely suffered
damage to the:
Which of the following is most likely to be stored as an implicit memory?
In an effort to recall his early life experiences, Aaron formed vivid mental images of the various rooms in
his childhood home. Aaron was engaging in the process of:
Whenever Valerie experiences intense feelings of fear, she is overwhelmed with childhood memories of her
abusive parents. Valerie's experience best illustrates:
While taking the final exam in her American history class, Marie was surprised and frustrated by her
momentary inability to remember the name of the first president of the United States.
Her difficulty most clearly illustrates: