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aches and pains conversion - correct answer transforming emotional difficulties into the loss of a physiological function somatoform - correct answer physical symptoms that have no apparent physical causes true - correct answer true or false: suicide is most common among the elderly psychogenic hypochondriasis - correct answer characterized by misinterpretation of normal amnesia - correct answer failure to remember past experiences

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short term memory - correct answer chunking is associated with...



eidetic memory - correct answer photographic memory is also called...



interference - correct answer blocking of a memory by previous or subsequent
memories



recognition - correct answer which of the following applies to the ability to identify
the name of your first grade teacher in a newspaper article



nondirected thinking - correct answer while playing tennis, a scientist realizes the
solution to a problem. this is called...



selective attention - correct answer while entertaining a group of friends in the
living room, you hear your infant sister crying in the bedroom. this is an example of...



have limited capacity - correct answer short term memories...



7 items - correct answer George Miller theorized that short term memory is limited
to about



recombination - correct answer mentally rearranging parts in order to find a novel
solution is called...



insight - correct answer the "aha" experience, or sudden realization of the solution
to a problem, is called...



true - correct answer true or false: short term memory lasts for less than 20
seconds without rehearsal



true - correct answer true or false: according to some theories, to recall a particular
event, you should try to recreate the mood you were in when it happened

, false - correct answer true or false: a multiple choice question retrieves information
through recall



true - correct answer true or false: confabulation can include wrong or fictional
information



feature extraction - correct answer how are you able to find the answer to the
question of "how many faces can you find in this picture?"



three kinds of memory - correct answer sensory storage, short term memory, long
term memory



three ways to improve your memory - correct answer chunking/associating with
strong emotions, rehearsal, mnemonic devices



directed and nondirected - correct answer what are the two types of thinking?



retroactive interference - correct answer Dawn's old boyfriend called the other day.
she couldn't remember his name though. she just kept thinking of her new boyfriend's name. what type
of interference is this?



operant conditioning - correct answer learning from the consequences of behavior.
the consequences of behavior make the behavior either more likely to be repeated in the future, or less
likely to happen in the future



practice - correct answer repetition of a task, help to bind responses together



positive transfer - correct answer when a previously learned response helps you
learn or master a new task



feedback - correct answer finding out the results of an action or performance

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