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What is the capacity of sensory memory?
What is the primary function of sensory memory?
What is the term for the ability to recall images in great detail?
Approximately what percentage of adults have photographic memory?
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What is the skill that memory experts typically possess?
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What is the duration of sensory memory?
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What is the main characteristic of short-term/working memory?
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What type of memory is characterized by recall or recognition of information and can be verbally transmitted?
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What is the primary function of the hippocampus in memory formation?
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What is the process by which learning occurs in the brain?
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What is the term for when brain damage affects two behaviors very differently, suggesting that the two behaviors are produced by different processes?
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What is the name of the receptor involved in the process of long-term potentiation?
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What is the main characteristic of long-term memory?
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What is the term for the process by which information is transferred from short-term memory to long-term memory?
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What is the primary function of the frontal lobes in memory formation?
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What is the name of the psychologist who introduced the concept of working memory?
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What is the primary function of the hippocampus in relation to memory?
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What is the name of the neurons involved in spatial navigation in the posterior hippocampus?
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What is the effect of damage to the hippocampus and surrounding areas on an individual's ability to form new memories?
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What is the brain structure involved in the learning of procedural memories for skills?
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What is the correlation between the volume of the posterior hippocampus and the amount of time an individual has been a taxi driver?
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What is the brain structure involved in motor sequencing and is affected in Parkinson's disease?
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What is the primary distinction between organic amnesia and psychogenic amnesia?
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What is the common name for the disorder characterized by two or more distinct and alternating personalities?
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What is the percentage of the population above the age of 65 that is affected by Alzheimer's disease?
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What is the name of the protein that is misfolded in amyloid plaques in the brains of Alzheimer's patients?
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According to research, what is the largest modifiable risk factor for developing neurocognitive disorders?
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What is the effect of anticholinergics on the brain, according to research?
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What is the primary goal of the treatment still in experimental stages, which involves recalling traumatic or negative experiences and simultaneously administering a memory-blocking drug or a brief painless electric shock?
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What is the term for the phenomenon where people attribute an event to the wrong source, such as thinking they experienced something they only heard about or read about?
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What is the characteristic of savant syndrome that allows individuals to exhibit exceptional abilities in specific domains, such as music or art?
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What is the term for the rare condition where individuals have virtually perfect memory from about age 10, often associated with OCD type behavior and an enlarged hippocampus and caudate nucleus?
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What is the purpose of schemas in memory, according to the text?
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What is the potential application of disrupting the left anterior frontal lobe with TMS, according to the text?
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What is one possible explanation for the retrieval failure?
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What is the primary reason for storage decay?
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What is the term for the process of rewriting memories during retrieval?
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What is the main finding of the study on nuns in a convent?
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What is the percentage of foreign language vocabulary, idioms, and grammar remembered by people after 50 years?
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What is the main reason for the difference in recall between participants who slept or engaged in normal daily activities?
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What is the term for the process of getting information into the brain?
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What is the percentage of men who remembered receiving physical punishment, despite 82% reporting it as ninth-graders?
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What is the effect of reconsolidation on memories?
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What is the main point of the study on memory reconstruction?
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What is the primary cause of the dual processing explanation for familiarity?
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What is the effect of sleep deprivation on cognitive functioning?
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What is the mechanism underlying the attentional explanation for familiarity?
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What is the primary characteristic of people who experience familiarity, according to the memory explanation?
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What is the primary correlation between familiarity and socioeconomic level?
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What is the primary factor contributing to the experience of familiarity in people who travel?
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What is the impact of sleep deprivation on the prefrontal cortex?
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What is the percentage decrease in the brain's ability to make new memories when sleep-deprived?
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What is the role of sleep in emotion regulation?
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What is the consequence of restricted sleep on glucose metabolism in 18-year-olds?
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What is the impact of sleep deprivation on athletic ability in adolescents?
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How much less sleep do teens who get C's, D's, and F's in school get compared to A and B students?
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What is the effect of sleep deprivation on the immune system?
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What is the correlation between sleep deprivation and obesity in adolescents?
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What is the treatment for insomnia that involves associating the bed with sleep?
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What is the implication of being awake for more than 24 hours on medical interns' performance?
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