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1. What evidence is there that people seem to have unlimited capacity for memory? (one example comes from math, one from literature)
2. Why do researchers study Aplysia?
3. Define "LTP".
4. What's "CREB" and what might it do?
5. What's glutamate and what might it do?
6. Before LTP takes place, short-term memories can be "wiped out". Give two examples of this (one is a therapy and one is from sports).
7. Give examples of how strong (a) emotions or (b) stress can burn memories straight into long-term.
8.  What did "H. M." and "Jimmie" have in common? 
9. Define (a) implicit memory and (b) explicit memory.
10. What do these parts of the brain seem to do with regards to memory: (a) the hippocampus and (b) the cerebellum.
11. Name 2 "retrieval cues".
12. What effect does a person's context seem to have on memory?
13. What effect does a person's mood seem to have on memory?
14. Categorize the "7 sins of memory".
15. Sketch a rough graph of Hermann Ebbinghaus' "forgetting curve."
16. Give an example of (a) proactive interference and (b) retroactive interference.
17. Summarize Sigmund Freud's idea of repressed memories.
18. What's "source amnesia?"
19. In your own words and taken overall, how reliable would say a person's memory is? Offer some evidence to back up your opinion.