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Tarah has just finished her General Psychology test and
handed it in. As she walks out of the library, she remembers the
answers to a few more questions that were included on the test. Tarah's
problem is in the memory process of...
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Retrieval
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Amanda learned Piaget's stages of development by repeating them over and over until she had them memorized. Amanda was using...
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Maintenance Rehearsal
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Long term memories are encoded in terms of...
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Sounds, Visual Images, Meanings of Words and Concepts
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Which type of long term memory is seldom, if ever, lost by people with Alzheimer's disease?
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Procedural
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The best place to take your General Psychology exam to ensure good retrieval if psychology concepts is in...
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the High School library
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Kloe can remember names of the first two people she was introduced to at Kaden's party, and she can remember the name of the last person she met, but the names of the dozen or so people in between are gone. This is an example of...
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Serial Position Effect
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When Ashton "forgets" what someone has just said because she wasn't paying attention to the speaker at all, it is an example of the ______________ explanation of forgetting.
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Encoding Failure
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An active system that encodes, stores, and retrieves information.
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Memory
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The best method for encoding long term memories is probably to use _______________.
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Elaborative Rehearsal
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The serial position effect predicts that the information that will be remembered best from a list will come at the _________ of the list.
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Beginning and End
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Is eyewitness testimony usually accurate?
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No, because there is a great possibility of a "False Positive" identification.
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Erin played soccer all through high school with the same coach and running a very similar offense and defense. Now she's at Edinboro playing soccer with a new coach, new offense, and new defense. She's having trouble learning all the new plays because of...
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Proactive Interference
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When our mental activity undergoes a change in quality or patter, this is called...
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Altered State of Consciensness
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The sleep-wake cycle is a(n) ____________ rhythm, normally occurring every 24 hours.
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Circadian
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What disorder does breathing stop for nearly half a minute or more?
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Sleep Apnea
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Mental images have...
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Picture Like Quality
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Knowing that the definition of psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes is an example of ____________.
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Formal Concept
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The system of rules for combining words and phrases to make meaningful sentences is called ____________.
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Syntax
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Grammar includes...
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Sounds, Order, Meaning
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The sounds of the letters b, z, c, and d are examples of...
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Phonemes
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Most of our time awake is spent in a state called ________________, which our thoughts, feelings, and sensations are clear and organized, and we feel alert.
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Waking Consciousness
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Lack of REM sleep produces psychological disorders.
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FALSE
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If you suddenly without warning slip into REM sleep during the day, often falling down as you do so, you have the condition called...
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Sleep Apnea
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Mental activity that goes on in the brain when a person is processing information is called...
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Thinking
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When people persist in trying to solve a problem the same way they have always gone about solving problems, they have developed...
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A Mental Set
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My son Brenden has blue eyes, even though his mother and I have hazel eyes. What can you tell about his mother and me?
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Both my wife and I must have one recessive blue eye color gene
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Abby and Brittany Hansel's false statement.
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They could have been successfully separated
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Which sense is least functional at birth?
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Vision
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In which of Piaget's stages would a child be who has just developed object performance?
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Sensorimotor
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Vgotsky defines ______________ as the difference between what a child can do alone and what a child can do with help.
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Zone of Proximal Development
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Mothers who were abusive and/or neglectful were associated with the _______________ type of attatchement.
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Initiative vs. Guilt
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