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Questions

1. When we repeatedly study new information over a period of several months, the connections among large groups of neurons will change gradually during that time. This type of change is known as ____.

neural learning

systems consolidation

neural firing rate

synaptic consolidation

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2. Long-term potentiation is the theory that learning leads to

larger action potentials.

larger neurons.

many new neurons.

stronger neural connections.

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3. If you learn new information in a noisy room, you will then be more likely to remember it in a noisy room than in a quiet room. This is known as ____.

repetition priming

encoding specificity

retrograde amnesia

consolidation

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4. A patient has difficulty remembering people or facts she knew before. However, she can remember her life events and daily tasks. Her memory behavior reflects

intact procedural memory but defective episodic memory.

intact episodic memory but defective semantic memory.

intact semantic memory but defective episodic memory.

intact episodic memory but defective procedural memory.

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5. Which of the following types of information will be stored in procedural memory?

A visit you made to Disneyland last year.

The name of the 1st five presidents of the United States.

Your first day of high school.

How to ride a bicycle.

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6. An example of ____ is when we react more quickly to a word when we see it a 2nd time, even if we don't remember seeing it the first time.

encoding specificity

procedural memory

repetition priming

semantic memory