The "tip-of-the-tongue" phenomenon results in difficulty with which aspect of your long-term memory?
A) encoding
B) storage
C) retrieval
D) accessing
C) retrieval. When the desired memory is stored in long-term memory, it is accessible. However, it cannot be consciously recalled if it cannot be retrieved.
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Your memories for how to do tasks, particularly those that involve steps, are called __________ .
A. short-term memories B. episodic memories C. procedural memories D. semantic memories
According to researchers, ____ may play an important role in the development of antisocial personality disorder.
A. poor academic performance in elementary school B. childhood aggression that is hard for parents to control C. low socioeconomic status D. educational opportunity
Which has the effect of reducing variance?
a. random assignment b. matched assignment c. holding variables constant d. random selection
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. Patient HM developed anterograde amnesia due to brain trauma from a near-fatal automobile accident 2. A person with only retrograde amnesia cannot remember aspects of his or her past but can form new memories 3. Sleep aids in memory by facilitating the consolidation of important—but not unimportant—information 4. Once consolidated, memories are relatively permanent fixtures in the brain 5. Memory reconsolidation primarily occurs each morning after we awaken from sleep