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21. Which one of the following is not specifically an aid to retention?
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A. chunking

B. meaningfulness

C. knowledge of results

D. over learning

22. The process by which a stimulus is attended to, identified, studied and incorporated into memory is called ________________?
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A. reasoning

B. encoding

C. retrieval

D. storage

23. After learning the combination for his new CNIC No. Mehboob is unable to remember the combination for his National Tax Number. Mehboob is experiencing the effects of ____________________?
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A. state-dependent memory

B. proactive interference

C. encoding failure

D. retroactive interference

24. Words, events, places and emotions that trigger our memory of the past are called __________________?
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A. retrieval cues

B. context effects

C. schemas

D. iconic traces

25. Echoic memory refers to ____________________?
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A. visual perception

B. verbal codes

C. eidetic perception

D. auditory perception

26. A brain tumor in the hippocampus of the brain would impair a persons ability to learn new things while leaving their old memories intact. This condition is known as _________________?
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A. anterograde amnesia

B. retrograde amnesia

C. proactive inhibition

D. retroactive inhibition

27. One of the most effective ways to remember information is to make personal sense of it. This process is called ________________?
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A. elaboration

B. chunking

C. maintenance

D. repetition

28. Which one of the following is necessary before an avoidance response can take place?
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A. a positive reinforce

B. shaping

C. punishment

D. a discriminative stimulus

29. The area of the brain where short-term memories are transferred to long-term memory is the _________________?
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A. hypothalamus

B. hippocampus

C. pons

D. medulla

30. When Pavlov repeatedly presented the conditioned stimulus without pairing it with the unconditioned stimulus, the conditioned response failed to occur. This is known as __________________?
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A. habituation

B. recovery

C. condition failure

D. extinction

31. Eidetic imagery is _____________________?
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A. most prominent among elderly persons

B. a clear visual memory

C. highly correlated with general intelligence

D. a step in mathematical thought

32. Retroactive interference involves the disruption of ________________?
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A. encoding

B. retrieval

C. all of the above

D. storage

33. A woman met a car accident and after recovering, she cannot remember events right before the crash, it is called _________________?
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A. retrograde interference

B. anterograde interference

C. retrograde amnesia

D. anterograde amnesia

34. Which one of the following was developed by the Army as the first group-administered test of intelligence?
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A. Alpha

B. Bender Gestalt

C. Otis

D. Beta

35. The memory store that has a decay time of about 250 milliseconds is __________________?
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A. iconic memory

B. tactile memory

C. echoic memory

D. short-term memory

36. Repression is an example of __________________?
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A. memory decay

B. all of the above

C. motivated forgetting

D. encoding failure

37. Which test of memory typically provides the fewest retrieval cues?
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A. recall

B. relearning

C. rehearsal

D. recognition

38. Memory for skills is called ___________________?
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A. explicit memory

B. implicit memory

C. semantic memory

D. episodic memory

39. When an operant response stops occurring because it is no longer reinforced, which of the following has taken place?
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A. extinction

B. an avoidance response

C. negative reinforcement

D. generalization

40. Memory techniques such as method of loci, acronyms and the peg-word system are called __________________?
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A. encoding strategies

B. mnemonic devices

C. consolidation devices

D. imagery techniques

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