Chapter 9 Matching Activity

Memory across the Lifespan

________ is the tendency in older adults to recall the good events in their lives and to reconstruct bad events as less distressing than they actually were.

________ occurs with repeated exposure to a stimulus.

_________ is when an association is formed between two neutral stimuli in the absence of reinforcement.

_________ is when a stimulus is better learned when presented along with a stronger stimulus than when it is presented alone.

When a nervous system is operating as it should be, it is called ___________.

To assess whether an infant is interested in a stimulus or not, researchers use the ________.

___________ occurs when stimuli become associated with each other because they are all independently associated with another stimuli.

The paired-comparison task, also known as the _______, measures the amount of time infants spend looking at two stimuli.

Potentiation does not typically occur in adults. Instead, when adults are presented with a strong and weak stimulus ______ typically occurs.

The type of memory that involves remembering to perform a planned intention is called _________ memory.

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