PSYCH 111- Ch. 8 Exam Questions And Answers 100% Pass
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PSYCH 111- Ch. 8 Exam Questions And
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When Tony is in a bad mood, he interprets his parents' comments as criticisms. When he's in a good
mood, he interprets the same types of parental comments as helpful suggestions. This best illustrates
that our emotional states influence the ...
PSYCH 111- Ch. 8 Exam Questions And
Answers 100% Pass
When Tony is in a bad mood, he interprets his parents' comments as criticisms. When he's in a good
mood, he interprets the same types of parental comments as helpful suggestions. This best illustrates
that our emotional states influence the process of - answer✔Encoding; the processing of information
into the memory system--ex. extracting meaning
the answer is encoding because it deals with his reaction and interpretation to the event as it happens
(as it is encoded) rather than looking back after the fact
Jeremy can accurately process and store new information, but when he is tested on what he has learned
he becomes so anxious that he can't easily recall the new information. Jeremy most clearly
demonstrates difficulty with - answer✔Retrieval; He struggles from retrieving the memory he has
already processed
The address for obtaining tickets to a popular quiz show flashes on the TV screen, but the image
disappears before Sergei has had a chance to write down the complete address. To his surprise,
however, he has retained a momentary mental image of the five-digit zip code. His experience best
illustrates ________ memory - answer✔Iconic memory; a momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli--
photographic or picture memory
By consciously rehearsing in many separate study sessions over the semester the facts you need to
learn, you are most clearly taking advantage of - answer✔Distributed practice; practice and repetition
over time
A conscious memory of the name of the first president of the United States is a(n) ________ memory. -
answer✔Explicit; memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and declare
Tim, a third-grader, learns the sentence "George Eats Old Gray Rats and Paints Houses Yellow" to help
him remember the spelling of "geography." Tim is using - answer✔Mnemonic; memory aid that uses
vivid imagery and organizational devices
Jamille is taking French in school. She gets her best grades on vocabulary tests if she studies for 15
minutes every day for 8 days than if she crams for 2 hours the night before the test. This illustrates what
is known as - answer✔Spacing Effect
After attending group therapy sessions for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, Karen mistakenly
remembered details from others' traumatic life stories as part of her own life history. This best
illustrates the dangers of - answer✔source amnesia, defined as attributing to the wrong source an event
we have experienced, in this case Karen is attributing the details from others' traumatic stories to her
own history
Watching a TV soap opera involving marital conflict and divorce led Andrea to recall several instances in
which her husband had mistreated her. The effect of the TV program on Andrea's recall provides an
example of - answer✔Priming; the activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory
When 80-year-old Ida looked at one of her old wedding pictures, she was flooded with vivid memories
of her parents, her husband, and the early years of her marriage. The picture served as a powerful -
answer✔Retrieval cue; bits of information that you can later use to access the information, in this case,
pictures of her wedding
Memory of your familiar old e-mail password may block the recall of your new password. -
answer✔Proactive interference; the forward-acting disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of
new information
Because her memory trace has faded, Dr. Jordan remembers much less about the organic chemistry that
she once learned well as a medical student. Her memory loss best illustrates - answer✔Storage decay;
after encoding something well, we sometimes later forget
After recovering from a stroke, Farina was able to learn how to hit a tennis ball. She is unable, however,
to learn and remember the name of the rehabilitation therapist who has been working with her each
day to develop her tennis swing. Farina is most likely to have suffered damage to her -
answer✔Hippocampus; helps process explicit memories for storage
Shelly was able to remember the names of three new class members for only a minute or two after they
had been introduced to her. During this entire minute or two their names were stored in her ________
memory. - answer✔Explicit or Short Term
Joshua vividly recalls his feelings and what he was doing at the exact moment when he heard of his
grandfather's unexpected death. This best illustrates ________ memory. - answer✔Flashbulb memory; a
clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event
Sherry easily remembers the telephone reservation number for Holiday Inn by using the mnemonic 1-
800-HOLIDAY. She is using a memory aid known as - answer✔Chunking; organizing items into familiar,
manageable units
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) - answer✔implicit memory; unconscious,
classically conditioned responses
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