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With rehearsal, informationin short-term memory can be maintained for some time. Without rehearsal, theduration of short-term memory is
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10-20 seconds.
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Baddeley’s concept of workingmemory
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expands the functions and processes of short-term memory.
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. Which of the followingstatements concerning schemas is NOT correct?
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Schemas always result in increasing the accuracy of individual’s memory.
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Which of the followingresearchers is known for identifying the capacity of short-term memory as“seven plus or minus two” items?
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George Miller
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Chunking involves
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rearranging incoming information into meaningful or familiar patterns.
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The stable ability to holdinformation in conscious attention is referred to as
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working-memory capacity.
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Unusually vivid and detailedrecollections of momentous events are called
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flashbulb memories.
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Pseudo-forgetting isinformation loss due to ineffective
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encoding only.
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Memory of “chronological” and“dated” personal experiences is referred to as
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episodic memory.
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The memory system thatcontains words, definitions, events, and ideas is the
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declarative memory system.
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An organized cluster ofknowledge about a particular object or event abstracted from previousexperiences with the object or event is known as
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a schema.
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Research on hypnosis mostclearly demonstrates that hypnosis leads subjects to report
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more incorrect information.
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According to Sigmund Freud,the process that is at work when distressing thoughts and feelings remainburied in the unconscious is
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Repression.
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The hypothetical processinvolving the gradual conversion of information into durable memory codesstored in long-term memory is known as
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Consolidation
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Decay theory suggests thatforgetting is due to
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impermanent storage.
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Cierra is taking a test ingeography and is trying to recall the capital of Turkmenistan. In answeringthis question, Cierra is largely relying on her
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semantic memory.
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You move to a new house andmemorize your new phone number. Now, you can’t remember your old phone number.This is an example of
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retroactive interference.
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Research demonstrates thatthe recovered memories of sexual abuse most likely to be corroborated are thosethat are recovered
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quickly and spontaneously.
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The memory system thatcontains the memory for how to type on a typewriter or drive an automobile isthe
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procedural memory system.
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The first person to conductscientific studies of forgetting was
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Hermann Ebbinghaus.
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