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Which part of the nervous system picks up information from the outside environment?

Mark was incredibly nervous on his first day at a new job and this was compounded by how much new information he was given about his role with the company. At the end of the day, he went home where he felt much more relaxed. He then tried to make some notes on what he had learned at work, but found it very difficult to remember any of the new information he had been given. Which of the following TWO best explain why Mark had such a hard time remembering things in this scenario?

Research has shown that the [BLANK-1] interview produces recall of more correct details compared to traditional police interviewing techniques.

While Katie is sleeping, her brain is working to consolidate her memories by replaying the hippocampal activation associated with these memories. This process of replaying previously encoded memories is called [BLANK-1] and it serves to reinforce and stabilize memory for long term storage.  

Your text describes an experiment by Talarico and Rubin (2003) that measured people’s memories of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Which of the following was the primary result of that research?

While driving you see a sign that says “Children Drive Slowly.” You understand that this sign is asking for you to drive your car slowly because there are likely to be children in the area; it is not telling you that children tend to drive cars at a low speed. You can correctly understand this sign because of which of the following?

Your roommate has been studying by rereading their notes from class but cannot understand why their test grades are not improving. Based on what you know about effective studying, you suggest that your roommate use which of the following?

Which is responsible for any difference in the amount of time it takes to determine that “happy” is a word compared to “joyful?”

The dramatic case of patient H.M. clearly illustrates that the hippocampus is crucial for the formation of

The component of Baddeley’s working memory model that is responsible for coordinating the manipulation of information in working memory is the [BLANK-1].