20 Questions
Which memory system allows people to consciously reexperience past experiences?
Episodic memory
What type of memory is usually expressed in terms of remembering some experience or episode?
Episodic memory
Which memory system is more vulnerable than other memory systems to neural dysfunction?
Episodic memory
Which type of knowledge is specific to knowing what to do in a situation?
Declarative knowledge
Which type of knowledge enables a person to actually perform a skill?
Procedural knowledge
In the experiment by McPherson and Thomas (1989), what did the experts know nearly all the time?
What action goal to establish
In the experiment by McPherson and Thomas (1989), what were the novices generally unable to do?
What action goal to establish
In the experiment by Cavaco et al. (2004), what did the amnesic patients improve despite evidence of impaired declarative memory related to the task?
Their performance on the tasks
In the experiment by Cavaco et al. (2004), how did the amnesic patients perform on declarative memory tests compared to the normal participants?
Worse
Which memory system allows people to mentally 'travel back' in time?
Episodic memory
Which memory system is described as oriented to the past in a way in which no other kind of memory, or memory system, is?
Episodic memory
What type of knowledge is specific to knowing what to do in a situation?
Declarative knowledge
Which memory system is described as more vulnerable than other memory systems to neural dysfunction?
Episodic memory
In the experiment by McPherson and Thomas (1989), what were the novices generally unable to do?
Establish an effective strategy or action goal
Which memory system allows people to consciously reexperience past experiences?
Episodic memory
Which type of memory is usually expressed in terms of remembering some experience or episode?
Episodic memory
In the experiment by Cavaco et al. (2004), how did the amnesic patients perform on declarative memory tests compared to the normal participants?
Much worse
In the experiment by Cavaco et al. (2004), what did the amnesic patients improve despite evidence of impaired declarative memory related to the task?
Performance on motor tasks
What did the experts know nearly all the time in the experiment by McPherson and Thomas (1989)?
What action goal to establish
Which type of knowledge enables a person to actually perform a skill?
Procedural knowledge
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