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A study had participants listen to a passage which turned out to be about a man on the street serenading his girlfriend in a tall building. The wording made it difficult for participants to understand, but looking at a picture made it easier. The results of this study illustrate the importance of _____ in forming long-term memories.

One of the key properties of the _____ approach is that a specific concept is represented by activity that is distributed over many units in the network.

The maintenance rehearsal task of learning a word by repeating it over again is most likely to;

Memory performance is enhanced if the type of task at encoding matches the type of task at retrieval. This is called;

The learning mechanism proposed by Hebb is associated with;

According to Levels of Processing theory, deep processing produces better memory. However, studies have shown that shallow processing can result in good memory when the individual encodes _____ and is tested _____.

Which of the following is true of the semantic network approach?

Not all the members of everyday categories have the same set of features. Most fish have gills, fins, and scales. Sharks lack scales yet are still categorized as fish. This poses a problem for the _____ approach to categorization.

According to the typicality effect;

If you were to say “A German Shepherd” is my idea of a typical kind of dog”, you’d be using the _____ approach to categorization.

Which of the following is is the best example of a basic level category?

Which of the following members most likely be ranked highest in prototypicality in the “bird” category?

Experimental evidence suggesting the standard model of consolidation needs to be revised are data showing that the hippocampus was activated during retrieval of _____ memories.

Mantyla’s “banana/yellow, bunches, edible” experiment demonstrated that for the best memory performance, retrieval cues should be created;

Based on the behavior of HM who had his hippocampus removed to cure epilepsy, we can conclude that the hippocampus is important in;

Hebb proposed that memory is represented in the brain by structural changes in all of the following EXCEPT the;

How would you describe the relationship between elaborative rehearsal and maintenance rehearsal in terms of establishing long-term memories?

Learning in a connectionist network is represented by adjustments to network;

Collins and Quillian explained the results of priming experiments by introducing the concept of _____ into their network model.

When cleaning her closet, Nadia finds a box of 20 year old photos from her wedding. As she sorts through the pictures she can’t help but feel a sense of joy and cries gently. Seeing those photos of her wedding day has activated her;

_____ transforms new memories from a fragile state, in which they can be disrupted or altered, to a more permanent state in which they are resistant to this.

How is cognitive economy represented in the following example: “The property _____ is stored at the _____ node.”

Recent research on memory, based largely on classical conditioning of a fear response in rats, indicates that;

The Standard Model of Consolidation proposes that the hippocampus is;

_____ is a mental representation used for a variety of cognitive functions, including memory, reasoning, and using and understanding language.

Rosch found that participants respond more rapidly in a same-different identification task when presented with “good” examples of colors such as red and green, than when presented with “poor” examples such as fuschia or teal. The result of this experiment was interpreted as supporting the _____ approach to categorization.

The example of a brief episode of retrograde amnesia, such as when a football player is hit particularly hard and can’t recall the last play, reflects;

Which of these statements best describes Levels of Processing theory?

Which of the following is MOST CLOSELY modeled on the way the nervous system operates?

_____ is an average representation of the members of a category.

The principle illustrated when most people are able to recognize a variety of chairs even though no one category member may have *all* the characteristic properties of chairs is known as;

Which of the following examples best demonstrates state-dependent learning?

Retrograde amnesia is typically less severe for _____ memories.

According to Rosch, the _____ level of categories is the “psychologically privileged” level of category reflecting people’s everyday experience.

The principle that we encode information together with its context is known as;

According to your text, imagery enhances memory because;

According to Levels of Processing theory, which of the following tasks will produce the best long-term memory for a list of words?

Jenkins & Russell (1952) presented a list of words such as “chair, apple, dish, shoe, cherry, sofa” to participants. When tested, they recalled the words in a different order. This happened because of the;

Jeanne loves to dance, and has done ballet for many years. She’s now learning Salsa; although the steps are very different from what she’s familiar with, she’s developed a strategy of linking the new steps she’s learning with her previous experiences in ballet and her own love of dancing. This is a _____ encoding strategy.

Collins and Quillian’s semantic network model predicts that the reaction time to verify “a canary is a bird” is _____ the reaction time to verify “an ostrich is a bird”.

Kim and Laura have been studying most of the evening for their psychology exam the following day. Both are tired of studying; Kim decides to go to bed and get some sleep, while Laura decides to watch a movie. Based on this info, who do you think will do better on their psychology exam the next day?

Hebb’s idea of long-term potentiation, which provides a physiological mechanism for the long-term storage of memories, includes the idea of;