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Treatment of PTSD has benefited from recent research on

reconsolidation

Which statement below is most closely associated with levels of processing theory?

Deep processing takes longer than shallow processing and results in better processing

Katie and Inez are roommates taking the same psychology class, They have a test in four days and both women intend to study for 3 hours but Katie will study one hour for each of the next three days while Inez will study three hours the day before the exam. What could you predict about their performances?

Katie should perform better because of the spacing effect

Your book explains that brief episodes of retrograde amnesia (e.g. the traumatic disruption of newly formed memories when a football player takes a hit to the head and can't recall the last play before the hit) reflect

a failure of memory consolidation

You have been studying for weeks for a nursing school entrance exam. You love the idea of becoming a nurse and you have been enjoying learning about the material for your exam. Each night you put on relaxing clothes and study in the quiet of your lovely home. Memory suggests you should take your test with a ____ mind set

calm

In Slameka and Graf's (1978) study some participants read word pairs while other participants had to fill in the blank letters of the second word in a pair with a word related to the first word. The latter group performed better on a later memory task, illustrating the

generation effect

According to the multiple trace hypothesis, the hippocampus is involved in retrieval of

remote, episodic memories

The standard model of consolidation proposes that the hippocampus is

strongly active when memories are first formed and being consolidated but becomes less active when retrieving older memories that are already consolidated

The author of your text makes a suggestion that students should study in a variety of places. This suggestion is based on research showing that people remember material better if they learned it in a number of different locations compared to studying the same amount of time in one location. The suggestion solves a problem raised by

the encoding specificity principle

Shallow processing of a word is encouraged when attention is focused on

the number of vowels in a word


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