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1) Joan remembers nearly everything that she has ever experienced. If you provide Joan a date (e.g., March 19, 1993), she can tell you what she did on that day with surprising accuracy. In fact, she has a memory that is too good. According to your text, Joan likely has a. an exceptional memory. b. hyperthymestic syndrome. c. age regression memory abilities. d. infantile autism. 2) The case of Nadean Cool, who came to believe she had dissociative identity disorder and had suffered brutal and repeated child abuse, demonstrates that a. therapy can help people to uncover memories of painful experiences that are repressed. b. people who want to obtain financial compensation from family often lie about past events that they supposedly remember. c. it is common for people to develop psychogenic amnesia when they have experienced severe abuse in the past. d. therapeutic techniques such as guided imagery and hypnotic age regression can lead us to falsely recall past events. 3) Which of the following best reflects the paradox of memory? a. Bobby remembers most important events in his life but forgets where he puts his keys regularly. b. Stephanie has a difficult time forgetting experiences in her life, whether good or bad. c. Miriam remembers positive life events very well but does not have a good memory for negative experiences. d. Tyler can remember his past very well, but has trouble encoding new memories and fails to remember events that just happened to him. 4) A small subset of individuals with infantile autism have a. a lack of specialized memory abilities. b. remarkable abilities to memorize factual information. c. an exceptional ability to memorize the digits of the mathematical value of pi. d. very good memories for personal experiences and poor memories for facts. 5) According to the authors, our memory is most like a. hardened metal. b. melting wax. c. a tape recorder. d. an old photograph. 6) ____________ is defined as an active system that receives information from the senses, organizes and alters information as it stores it away, and then retrieves the information from storage. a. Classical conditioning b. Operant conditioning c. Learning d. Memory 7) Hideki and Thao are studying for an exam. Thao asks the following question: “What term refers to how people use information from the past in the present?” Hideki would be most correct if he answered a. encoding. b. memory. c. elaborative rehearsal. d. suggestive memory. 8) Memory is defined as an active system that consists of three processes. They are a. receiving information from the senses, organizing and storing the information, and retrieving the information from storage. b. the unconditioned stimulus, the conditioned stimulus, and the conditioned response. c. bottom-up processing, selective attention, and top-down processing. d. acquisition, extinction, and spontaneous recovery. 9) Dr. Vargas can remember hundreds of students’ names from his twenty-five years of university teaching, but has difficulty remembering the new three-digit area code for his home phone number. This is one illustration of a. meta-memory. b. iconic memory. c. the paradox of memory. d. false memories. 10) After presenting groups of research participants with words like thread, eye, pin, syringe, sewing, sharp, and thimble, a memory researcher asks the participants whether they remember seeing the word needle. The fact that many participants do is an example of a. amnesia. b. déjà vu. c. permastore. d. memory illusion.