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If a researcher wished to observe the change in cognition relating to brain stimulation, a technique the researcher might use would involve a small magnetic pulse to create a small pulse of electricity. Which stimulation technique would the researcher use?

In a sentence verification task, participants decide as quickly as possible:

This is the gap between one neuron and the dendrite of the next.

Patient DQ has difficulty recognizing faces, even those of close family members, even though he can recognize them by voice. Your diagnosis?

A researcher repeatedly asks a participant about slipping and breaking his father’s computer when the participant was a child. The researcher knows that this event never occurred, having spoken with the participant’s father. What technique does this most resemble?

With training, people can increase their digit span by focusing on:

By which age is childhood amnesia usually no longer seen?

Wang and Thomas found that the keyword technique was good for ______ learning but that elaborative encoding led to better ______.

Explain articulatory suppression and give one example.

What term describes the electrochemical process of transmission in an axon?