Ramon sees a therapist because he is reliving a traumatic experience and has been trying to avoid reminders of it. The onset of his problem occurred three weeks ago, after he was brutally assaulted and robbed. The therapist would most likely diagnose Ramon with which disorder?
a. acute stress disorder c. generalized anxiety disorder
b. posttraumatic stress disorder d. panic disorder
A
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Demonstrate how long-term potentiation occurs.
What will be an ideal response?
A person with anterograde amnesia
a. has difficulty forming memories of things that happened after the brain damage. b. has difficulty on implicit memory tasks, rather than explicit memory tasks. c. has relatively weak long-term memory, compared to working memory. d. is likely to retain expertise in one specific area of knowledge.
Short-term memory performs three functions. Which of the following is not among the three functions?
A. holds information for a short period of time B. helps to encode information into long-term memory C. selectively attends to information that is relevant D. provides a location for network nodes
The tendency for people to believe they can accomplish more in a given period of time than they can actually accomplish is known as ________
A) the planning fallacy B) the narrative mode of thought C) the Buehler effect D) the future orientation E) defensive optimism