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Rueben tries to learn a long list of parts of the brain for his exam, and discovers that early on he is remembering the words at the end of the list much better than those in the middle of the list. What is this effect called?
Mirari signs up for a SONA study which involves her wearing a set of stereo headphones. She is asked to repeat back everything she hears coming in her left ear. Every mow and again noises are broadcast to her right ear.
At the end of the study,Mirari can report every time her name was mentioned in the unattended ear, as well as parts of a story that was being told.
This would be interpreted as evidence for a (n) _______ locus of selection.
Which of the following processes do NOT describe what could occur in an implicit memory test after you have been shown a word list a few days earlier.
Kirita has just heard a sentence and is now trying to count the number of words in it. She finds herself using her fingers to count even though she is 18 years old. What is going on?
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Imagine a person hears the following sentences read out to them:
The car crashed into the truck The sports car drove down the hill The sports car drove down the steep hill The sports car crashed into the truck
Thirty minutes later, which sentences below would you expect participants to remember BEST (most confidently) as being read out?
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Conway et al. (2009) studied flashbulb memories formed around September 11th 2001. What is true of their findings?
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Ahmed does not pay much attention or encode much information during lectures because he knows they are being recorded. What is the technical name for this?
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In theorizing about Sternberg's memory scanning task, Snodgrass (1985) considered and graphed three possible patterns of data associated with three possible strategies.
Snodgrass proposed that if a _______ search was made participants would take longer to respond when there were more items in the memory set,
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What is the estimated duration of (A) echoic memory and (B) iconic memory?
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Carmel knows that when she finishes her meal at her favourite yum cha restaurant she needs to signal the waiter and hand them her card which has stamps indicating which dishes she chose. She then needs to pay before leaving. This is an example of a specific kind of schema called a:
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