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After a blow to the head, a patient cannot form new memories but remembers the past. This is:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the explicit memoriesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the memory brain partsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the memory stagesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the memory wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Explicit or implicitRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the memory functionsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Memory bingoRead the answer and worked solution →A baby is born knowing how to suck on a nipple. This unlearned behaviour is a:Read the answer and worked solution →A relatively permanent change in behaviour or knowledge that results from experience is:Read the answer and worked solution →You jump when you see lightning because it reliably predicts thunder. This is:Read the answer and worked solution →You give your dog a treat each time he sits, and he sits more often. This is:Read the answer and worked solution →Julian learns to surf by watching his father and imitating him. This is:Read the answer and worked solution →Ivan Pavlov, who discovered classical conditioning, was by training a:Read the answer and worked solution →Pavlov originally measured how much of what his dogs produced in response to food?Read the answer and worked solution →In Pavlov's experiment, the meat powder that naturally causes salivation is the:Read the answer and worked solution →Before pairing, the tone that does not naturally cause salivation is a:Read the answer and worked solution →After repeated pairing, the dogs salivate to the tone alone. The salivation to the tone is the:Read the answer and worked solution →Moisha feels nauseous just entering her oncologist's office after chemotherapy there. The office is the:Read the answer and worked solution →Using an established conditioned stimulus to condition a new neutral stimulus is:Read the answer and worked solution →The initial period when a neutral stimulus is connected to an unconditioned stimulus is:Read the answer and worked solution →You fell ill hours after eating chicken curry and now feel sick at the smell of curry. This is:Read the answer and worked solution →When the tone is repeatedly sounded without meat powder and the dogs stop salivating, this is:Read the answer and worked solution →After a rest, the extinguished salivation returns when the bell rings again. This is:Read the answer and worked solution →Tiger the cat runs for food at the can opener sound but not at the electric mixer. This is stimulus:Read the answer and worked solution →Little Albert, conditioned to fear a white rat, then feared rabbits and furry coats. This is stimulus:Read the answer and worked solution →Who is considered the founder of behaviorism?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1920, Watson and Rosalie Rayner conditioned fear in a baby nicknamed:Read the answer and worked solution →B. F. Skinner's idea that learning results from consequences is based on Thorndike's:Read the answer and worked solution →

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After a blow to the head, a patient cannot form new memories but remembers the past. This is:

  1. Retrograde amnesia
  2. Hyperthymesia state
  3. Proactive interference
  4. Anterograde amnesia
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Correct answer: D. Anterograde amnesia

1. The hippocampus is usually affected. 2. This is anterograde amnesia. 3. Information cannot move from short-term to long-term memory. _Source: OpenStax Psychology 2e, Chapter 8, Memory (CC BY 4.0)._

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Catch the explicit memories

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Items
  1. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Episodic
  2. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Semantic
  3. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Birthday
  4. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Facts
  5. Matches the category
    No
    Item
    Procedural
  6. Matches the category
    No
    Item
    Priming
  7. Matches the category
    No
    Item
    Bike riding
  8. Matches the category
    No
    Item
    Eye-blink
Category
Explicit memory
Instructions
Catch the explicit memory items. Let the implicit ones fall.
_Source: OpenStax Psychology 2e, Chapter 8, Memory (CC BY 4.0)._

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Pop the memory brain parts

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Other terms
  1. Trigram
  2. Plate
  3. Rhyme
  4. Picnic
Matching terms
  1. Amygdala
  2. Hippocampus
  3. Cerebellum
  4. Prefrontal
  5. Temporal lobe
  6. Synapse
Instructions
Pop the brain structures involved in memory. Leave the experiment words.
_Source: OpenStax Psychology 2e, Chapter 8, Memory (CC BY 4.0)._

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