If You Are Eating an Apple and Bite a Large

question 735

Multiple Choice

If you are eating an apple and bite a large green worm in half, you may not be able to look at an apple for several months without feeling ill because you have developed a(n)

• A) systematic desensitization.
• B) spontaneous recovery.
• C) conditioned aversion.
• D) extinction.

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Definitions:

Encoding Failure

A cause of forgetting that occurs when information was never put into long-term memory.

Anterograde Amnesia

A condition in which the ability to create new memories after the event that caused the amnesia is lost, leaving the past memories intact.

Retrograde Amnesia

A form of amnesia where an individual is unable to recall events that occurred before the onset of the condition.

Nonsense Syllables

A set of syllables without meaning, used in psychological experiments to study memory and learning processes.