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The hippocampus plays a critical role in ________ memory.

In order to remember the information from her psychology textbook, Piper often relates it to her own life experience so that it has meaning. Piper’s strategy is an effective method of:

A child learns the route from home to their favorite candy store after numerous car rides to the candy store. One day, the family car breaks down and the child decides they want to walk to the candy store by themself. The child remembers how to get to the candy store, because of _________ that occurred; learning the route from home to the candy store was “hidden” until it became useful.

__________ is the  most commonly used drug in the world, and is a member of the ________ drug class.

You are trying to train your dog to do a series of complex tricks: opening the door, retrieving the paper, and putting it on the table. The best way to teach the series of behaviors needed for this complex task would be to use: 

Instead of remembering a phone number like 1-5-3-4-2-7-9-3-0-6, we are used to remembering them like (153) 427-9306. This is an example of: 

Infants sleep much more than adults, and also engage in a much higher proportion of ______  sleep (approximately 50% of their sleep time). This supports the idea that this stage is important for the creating of new synapses in the brain, which is critical for learning and making new memories.

Which of the following is most likely the prototype for the concept “fish”?

The conditioned response (CR) is the __________

Difficulty falling or staying asleep is called: