Alexandra and her best friend had a fight didn't speak for months. Then Alexandra came across a ticket stub from a concert the two girls attended together, and suddenly she recalled happy memories of times she spent with her friend. She then decided it was time to call her friend and try to make up. How did the ticket stub help Alexandra access these memories?
-It provided context to produce a sense of familiarity.
-It served as a retrieval cue that was encoded with the other happy memories.
-It served as a mnemonic device to facilitate memory.
-It provided a method of loci that helped Alexandra remember other happy times.
-It served as a retrieval cue that was encoded with the other happy memories.
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a. a disruption of the prefrontal cortex's ability to modulate the response of the amygdala to threatening situations b. a predominant role of genetic factors in the manifestation of GAD c. unusually low activity of the anxiety circuit in the brain d. awareness of the source of the anxiety by the person suffering from the disorder
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A. You were following personal associations, or mental roads, traveling from node to node. B. There were objects in your present environment related to both baseball and toothpaste. C. You were randomly sorting through many, many memories. D. Unfortunately, examples like this are not easily explained by the network theory of memory.