You Don't Really Remember What You Did at Thanksgiving Two

question 234

Multiple Choice

You don't really remember what you did at Thanksgiving two years ago, but you can give a fairly close description by using general information about holiday traditions, where you lived, and other schemas.This illustrates the:

• A)cue-dependent nature of long-term memory
• B)transfer-appropriate nature of long-term memory
• C)reconstructive nature of long-term memory
• D)distributed nature of long-term memory

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

A learning process through which the strength of a behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment, a concept introduced by B.F. Skinner.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired: a response that is at first elicited by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.

Spontaneous Recovery

The reappearance of a conditioned response after a period of lessened response.

Extinction

In biology, it is the end of an organism or of a group of organisms, normally a species.