weekly flashcard 12/13G

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Which of the following best describes the primacy effect?

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When people have better recall of things that occur at the beginning of a sequence

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Dr. Rudolph’s class has a big test coming up next week. Which of the following students is using a studying strategy that is most likely to lead to memory consolidation? Greta is anxious about the test, so she distracts herself by playing video games. Marcus does not study until the night before the test, when he studies for eight hours straight. Crystal studies for a half hour before she goes to bed each night the week before the exam. Mario studies by repeating his class notes to himself multiple times.

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Crystal studies for a half hour before she goes to bed each night the week before the exam.

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Which of the following scenarios involves using cued recall (priming)?
Letitia uses a mnemonic device to help her remember the names of all the lobes of the brain.
Steven studies a list of word pairs and is later given the first word of each pair and asked to recall the second word in the pair.
To help her remember what she needs from the grocery store, Marjorie imagines walking through her kitchen and visualizing what is missing.
Kumail scores well on a multiple-choice quiz because he recognizes all of the correct answers when he sees them.

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Steven studies a list of word pairs and is later given the first word of each pair and asked to recall the second word in the pair.

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Charles recalls the day last summer when he fell off his bicycle and scraped his knee. This is an example of

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episodic memory

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According to research on levels of processing, which of the following would most improve the ability to recall the word “umbrella”? Counting the number of syllables in the word “umbrella”, Deciding whether an umbrella would be useful to pack for a trip, Writing the word “umbrella”, Deciding whether the word “umbrella” rhymes with the word “banana”

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Deciding whether an umbrella would be useful to pack for a trip

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Hannah glances at a graph and then turns her head away less than a second later. When she tries to immediately remember what she saw, which type of memory does she use?

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iconic

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Memories of well-learned skills, such as riding a bicycle, are classified as

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procedural

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Which process transfers information from sensory memory to short-term memory?

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attention

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Which of the following activities most directly relies on the hippocampus?
Remembering how to play a certain passage on the piano,
Memorizing the definition of an important term for one of your classes,
Using short-term memory to recreate a picture when drawing a copy of the picture,
Rehearsing a fact to remember it for a short period of time

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Memorizing the definition of an important term for one of your classes

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According to the information-processing view of memory, the first stage in memory processing involves

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encoding