Question 1

State-dependent learning and mood-dependent memory are more evident with recognition tests than with recall.

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State-dependent learning and mood-dependent memory are typically more evident with recall tests because recall requires more retrieval effort, making the influence of internal states more pronounced.

Question 2

Retrograde amnesia is often referred to colloquially as "short-term memory loss." Briefly describe why this is not accurate by comparing and contrasting the two.

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Question 3

Describe how you could use the levels of processing theory to better study for an exam.

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Question 4

The facts that you have encoded for this exam would be found in procedural memory.

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Procedural memory is responsible for knowing how to do things, such as riding a bike or tying shoelaces, rather than for factual knowledge, which is stored in declarative memory.

Question 5

Forgetting curves show that no information is lost in the encoding process to long-term memory.

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Forgetting curves illustrate that information is lost over time when there is no attempt to retain it, not specifically during the encoding process to long-term memory. They mainly describe how memory retention declines.

Question 6

Using a pre-learned rhyme to try and remember words later would be the mnemonic device known as the peg-word method.

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The peg-word method is a mnemonic device that involves linking words you want to remember with a pre-learned rhyme or sequence, such as "one is a bun, two is a shoe," to recall information more easily.

Question 7

Anterograde amnesia can result in memory for skills that are hyperspecific to the original learning context.

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Anterograde amnesia affects the ability to form new explicit memories but can leave implicit memory, such as skills, intact, which may become context-dependent.

Question 8

What is the difference between episodic and semantic memory? Give examples of each.

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Question 9

Describe one mnemonic device and give an example of how it might be used.

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Question 10

Retrograde amnesia is worst for one's oldest memories;memories of more recent pre-amnesia events are often spared.

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Retrograde amnesia typically affects more recent memories; older memories, being more consolidated, are often less affected.

Question 11

If you learn something while intoxicated,you will remember it best if you are intoxicated.

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This phenomenon is known as state-dependent memory, where the recall of information is most efficient when an individual is in the same state of consciousness as when the memory was formed.

Question 12

How is material coded in long-term memory,and how do we know this?

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Question 13

It is better to study material for 20 minutes per night for 3 nights than it is to study for 1 full hour the night before the test.

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Distributed practice, or spreading out study sessions over time, is more effective for long-term retention than massed practice, or cramming, because it allows for better encoding of information into long-term memory.

Question 14

Results with an incidental learning task showed that information that was manipulated more by a participant was better remembered.

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Incidental learning tasks, where participants are not explicitly instructed to remember information, often show that information manipulated or interacted with more extensively by participants tends to be better remembered. This is because deeper cognitive processing facilitates memory encoding and retrieval.

Quiz 6: Retrieving Memories From Long-Term Storage