A scientist invents a new drug that increases the availability of glutamate in the human nervous system. Which of the following individuals would likely benefit most from such a drug?
a) A person who is having trouble consolidating new experiences into long-term memor
b) A person who is losing the ability to retrieve old information from long-term memory
c) A person whose episodic memory is impaired but semantic memory is intact.
d) A person whose semantic memory is impaired but episodic memory is intact.
A
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A. disruptive and aggressive B. manipulative C. withdrawn and submissive D. cooperative, helpful, friendly, and kind
Expertise allows for fast, fairly effortless thinking based on experience with similar problems called __________ processing
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
If an individual's wishes are overgratified or undergratified at any particular psychosexual stage, Freud would argue that ____ will occur
a. projection c. displacement b. fixation d. Freudian slips
In a study of how memory processes unfold over time, as described in the textbook, a team of researchers asked participants to retrieve autobiographical memories while undergoing fMRI scans. Researchers found that
a. the same brain areas that are most active during encoding are most active during retrieval. b. as elaboration takes place, areas responsible for encoding become more and more active than those for retrieval. c. early in the process, before participants elaborated their memories, structures like the hippocampus were active. d. psychological models of encoding and retrieval apparently are unrelated to processes in the brain.