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