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Question 91

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Elaboration involves

A) the creation of visual images to represent the words to be remembered.
B) decreasing the complexity of the material to be remembered.
C) forming two kinds of memory code for each word.
D) linking a stimulus to other information at the time of encoding.

E) A) and D)
F) None of the above

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Question 92

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You look up the phone number of the new Pizza Hut and repeat the number silently in your head until you find a pad of paper to write it down. The process of actively repeating the number is called

A) chunking.
B) rehearsal.
C) encoding.
D) retrieval.

E) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

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Question 93

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The process of deciding on whether a memory is based on an external source or an internal source is referred to as

Which stage, according to the Atkinson-Shiffrin model of memory, is the first stage of memory processing?

Ten-year-old Kylee is trying to remember the capital of North Carolina during a game of "Where Are You?" Her father tells her to think of the letter "R," and she quickly comes up with Raleigh. In this case, Kylee's memory was assisted using

Meredith is trying to memorize the various eras and periods in the geologic table. She begins by memorizing the Cenozoic, Mesozoic and Paleozoic as three eras. She then memorizes the three periods from the Cenozoic, the three periods from the Mesozoic and the six periods from the Paleozoic. Meredith's method of organizing the material she is trying to remember illustrates the concept of

Your female friend recently got married and changed her last name to that of her husband's. You have difficulty remembering her new last name because of

The measure of memory that requires subjects to reproduce information on their own, without any cues, is

Naomi is studying for her law exam. While she is studying, she is trying to think of as many examples as she can to illustrate key ideas. In this case, Naomi is using

The shallowest level of processing of verbal information is ____ encoding.

Noah had learned to play Mozart's Concerto Number 21 when he was eight years old. He is now 30 years old and hasn't played the piano for 12 years, but his sister has asked him to play the concerto at her wedding. When Noah sits down to practice, he finds that he has the piece mastered in just a few hours, even though it took him weeks to learn the first time. This example illustrates

If you try to remember something but cannot, yet know the information is in memory, you are experiencing the

According to interference theory failure to recall information stored in the brain may be due to

The work of researchers like Bartlett and Loftus on errors in memory suggests that memory is best viewed as

Multiple choice tests like this one use which measure of retention?

The memory system that holds information in storage just long enough to give you additional time to recognize the stimulus is

Beth is trying to remember the name of the regular babysitter she had when she was younger. When her dad reminds her that he called the sitter Sarge because she strictly enforced the rules, Beth correctly remembers her name as Marge. In this example "Sarge" served as a

Clustering occurs when one

When you listen to a lecture, the information is held in ____ memory until you write it in your notes.

One general question regarding long-term memory involves whether