Modules 24, 25, and 26
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About one in _____ people diagnosed with depression is simply struggling with the emotional impact of a significant loss.
rehearsal
According to Thomas Landauer, _____ and critical reflection of material is a type of active studying that will help in retention of newly learned material.
Biopsychosocial
An integrated understanding of psychological disorders in terms of stressful memories, evolutionary processes, and gender roles is most clearly provided by a(n) _____ approach.
a manic episode
An overabundance of the neurotransmitter norepinephrine is most likely to be associated with:
repression
Janel was sexually abused by her uncle when she was five years old. This experience was so devastating and traumatic that she removed the memory from her conscious awareness. This is an example of _____?
Amygdala
Memories of emotional events are especially likely to be facilitated by activation of the:
Elizabeth Loftus
Memory researcher ____ has conducted many studies showing how people construct false memories.
100
Nearly 1 in ___ people will experience schitzophrenia
a breakdown in selective attention
One of the hallmarks of schizophrenia is disorganized speech. Theorists suggest that people with such disorganized speech have:
relearning
One way to test memory is to check the speed of _____ for things that we once learned but have since forgotten.
obsessive compulsive disorder
People who are troubled by repetitive thoughts or actions are suffering from:
repress
Sigmund Freud proposed that, beginning in childhood, people _____ their intolerable impulses, ideas, and feelings, and that this submerged mental energy sometimes produces symptoms such as anxiety.
3
Some people claim to have been molested as toddlers and infants, but memories of things happening before age _____ are unreliable.
false memories
Stephen Ceci and Maggie Bruck found that most preschoolers and many older children could be induced to report _____.
short-term
Theo suffers from depression and is currently in treatment. His physician is using electroconvulsive therapy, which will affect his _____ memory.
reinforcement
This helps maintain phobias and compulsions after they arise.
misinformation
When people are given subtle misleading information about a past event, they often misremember the true details surrounding the event. This is known as the _____ effect.
The first person you met
When you go for a job interview and are introduced to many people, whose name are you most likely to remember?
reconstruction
Whenever you recall a prior event, the process that allows you to recall an episodic memory is one of _____.
expressionless face and toneless voice
Which of the following best illustrates a negative symptom of schizophrenia?
working memory
Which stage of memory can be thought of as the "workshop" of consciousness and memory?
depression, schitzophrenia
___ is to common cold, ___ is to cancer
generalized anxiety
____ disorder is characterized by symptoms of unexplained and continually tense and uneasy feelings.
source amnesia
____ occurs when we mistakenly attribute a memory to an incorrect time and place.
Semantic
_____ encoding is the encoding of meaning, including the meaning of words.
retroactive interferance
_____ occurs when something you learn now interferes with your ability to recall something you learned earlier.
proactive interferance
_____ occurs when something you learned previously interferes with your recall of something you learn later
dopamine
_____ overactivity may underlie schizophrenic patients' overreactions to irrelevant external and internal stimuli
hippocampus
amnesia effects where
generalized anxiety symptoms
sleepiness, muscle tension
lethargy
Bipolar disorder is characterized by moods that alternate between the hopelessness and _____ of depression and the euphoric, hyperactive state of mania.
chunking
Combining individual letters into familiar words enables one to remember more of the letters in this sentence. This best illustrates the value of:
adding
Committing information to memory after already learning new material is analogous to _____ clutter in your mental attic.
biopsychosocial model
Dr. Cobbs believes in a
William James
He said, "If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing."
tying a knot
If the functioning of your cerebellum is impaired, you would have trouble learning which of the following?
accidentally create false memories
If you undergo hypnosis in hopes of uncovering information about your past, you are likely to ___?
all over the brain
If you were searching for the location of a particular memory, you would find it _____.
memory reconstruction
In adulthood, we have difficulty recalling our experiences and perspective in youth. This is due to ____?
antisocial personality disorder
The symptoms of _____ begin to appear at a median age of about 8.
mood
Studies on state-dependent memory show that ____ distorts memory.
3 months
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) recommendation is that women who will be more than _____ month(s) pregnant during the flu season get a flu shot.
memory resconstruction
The high frequency of inaccurate eyewitness testimony is due to _____.
interference
The more similar information is in two memories, the more likely it is that _____ will occur.
schitzophrenia
The most common hallucinations experienced in _____ are auditory.
vivid & persistent memories
The most common response to a traumatic experience involves:
state-dependent memory
The phenomena of forgetting information learned while intoxicated until the person is once again intoxicated is called ____.
infantile amnesia
forget first three years of your life
Memory can be formally defined as:
the mental processes that enable us to learn, store, and retrieve information