Pauline's flashbulb memories of her children's births were caused by these exciting and stressful experiences heightening the activity in the limbic system of her brain, which intensified the process of forming long-term memories known as
a. consolidation.
b. redintegration.
c. habituation.
d. sensory gating.
A
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Professor Kennedy learns the names of all the students in her class each year. As a result of retroactive interference, what is she likely to forget? a. The names of her most unusual students, both past and present. b. The names of her favorite students, both past and present
c. The names of students from previous years. d. The names of students in her current class.
Adolescents sometimes discourage each other from doing well or from doing too well. In one study, ____ reported not trying to perform as well as they were capable of for fear of earning the disapproval of peers
a. 1 in 20 b. 1 in 10 c. 1 in 5 d. 3 in 5
Unrealistic performance standards:
a. result from behavior learned from unusually talented models. b. are a result of alcoholism and drug use. c. do not motivate or challenge us enough. d. cause us to perform sustainably at our peak.
The spreading activation model accounts for the results of the lexical decision experiments that demonstrate priming by explaining ____
a. ?our unconscious daily responses to non-real words b. ?the quicker decision time with related words c. ?the strong connections between unrelated words d. ?the organization of related words in short-term memory