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Question 21

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The process of selective looking,listening,smelling,and feeling is called ____________.

A) retention
B) cognition
C) recognition
D) attention

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The concept of a house would be stored in _______.

A) the sensory registers
B) short-term memory
C) eidetic memory
D) long-term memory

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The sensory registers _____________.

You looked up a friend's address for a letter you wrote.Suddenly the phone rings-wrong number.Even though you were interrupted for only a few seconds,you've forgotten the address.Which memory system failed you?

Your memories of personal information such as what you wore to work yesterday or what you ate for breakfast this morning are stored in _______________.

Which of the following is an example of semantic memory?

An explanation for the widespread storage of memories is that ____________.

You are asked to recall the word that means "a woman who houses and manages prostitutes." You are confident that you know what the term is,and you feel as though you are about to remember it,but it just will not pop out of your memory.You are experiencing:

Memory is:

What is the capacity of short-term memory?

Students in a psychology experiment were exposed to three notes of music for a very short period of time and then asked to recall them.If the instructions to recall the notes came immediately,the students usually succeeded.If the instructions came more than three seconds after the notes were played,the students were much less successful.The MOST plausible explanation for this phenomenon is that,in the latter case,_____________.

A system that allows people to retain information over time is called:

Little Tammy is talking to her grandfather.She loves to listen to him tell stories about when he was a child.He has very vivid recollections of his youth and enjoys telling people about his fond memories.Unfortunately,grandpa has a difficult time remembering what happened within the last few days or weeks.If there are no physiological problems,grandpa's memory problems are best explained by ______.

Information is grouped for storage in short-term memory through the process of __________.

Information that was either unintentionally committed to or unintentionally retried from memory is known as ___________.

Kerry's grandparents moved to a new neighborhood last year.Today,Kerry can easily remember their address but messes up their old one.This illustrates:

An individual's memory can be distorted by:

Sensory store memory:

The passing of time causes forgetting according to ___________.

Which of the following statements about the visual sensory memory system is false?