Memories of traumatic physical abuse are most unlikely to be __________________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Our tendency to notice and remember instance in which a premonition of an unlikely phone call is actually followed by the call most clearly contribute to:

   A. the placebo effect
   B. the false consensus effect
   C. replication
   D. an illusory correlation

2. To prevent ethical abuse in psychological research, the APA has suggested that:

   A. psychologists must treat all subjects with respect and concern for the subject’s dignity
   B. psychologists must avoid deception with using human subjects
   C. all data collected from a person must be made public
   D. all psychological harm to subjects must be corrected by counseling

3. A single, memorable case of welfare fraud has a greater impact on estimates of the frequency of welfare abuse than do statistics showing that this case is actually the exception to the rule. This illustrates that judgments are influenced by the:

   A. availability heuristic
   B. belief perseverance phenomenon
   C. framing effect
   D. confirmation bias

4. The process of comparing currently experienced visual input with past visual memories takes place with ___________?

   A. Broca’s area
   B. the sensory cortex
   C. association areas
   D. the limbic system

5. The area of the brain where short-term memories are transferred to long-term memory is the _________________?

   A. medulla
   B. hippocampus
   C. pons
   D. hypothalamus

6. A brain tumor in the hippocampus of the brain would impair a person’s ability to learn new things while leaving their old memories intact. This condition is known as _________________?

   A. retroactive inhibition
   B. anterograde amnesia
   C. proactive inhibition
   D. retrograde amnesia

7. According to Pavlov’s dual-code model of memory, the two types of codes used to store long-term memories are ________________?

   A. visual and auditory
   B. semantic and syntactic
   C. implicit and explicit
   D. verbal and visual

8. An ability to learn new information and form new long-term memories is called ________________?

   A. retroactive amnesia
   B. proactive amnesia
   C. anterograde amnesia
   D. implicit amnesia

9. Echoic memories fade after approximately ________________?

   A. 1 hour
   B. 1 minute
   C. 30 seconds
   D. 1 second

10. One of the followings receives and processes sensory information, initiates responses, stores memories and generates thoughts and emotions is:

    A. Somatic nervous system
    B. Brain
    C. Autonomic nervous system
    D. Spinal cord