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Title: Three of the following statements are accurate descriptions of long-term memory. Which one is not ... Post by: jmountain on Mar 14, 2018 Three of the following statements are accurate descriptions of long-term memory. Which one is not necessarily accurate?
a. Information can last for a lengthy period of time, although not necessarily forever. b. Retrieval of information from long-term memory is sometimes difficult. c. Much of the information stored there is stored in terms of general meanings. d. The more information it contains, the less room it has for new material. Ques. 2 William is trying to remember his new nine-digit social security number, and he does so by thinking of it as three groups of three digits each. William is demonstrating: a. The use of chunking b. Storage in the sensory register c. Retrieval from working memory d. The use of maintenance rehearsal Ques. 3 Which one of the following scenarios reflects the typical duration of working (short-term) memory? a. Arnie's family spends a summer at his grandmother's house and is able to remember his grandmother's telephone number for the two months he is there. However, he quickly forgets the number after he moves back home again. b. Barney looks up the correct spelling of the word fossil and closes the dictionary. By the time he finds a piece of paper on which to write the word, he has forgotten how to spell it. c. Carol remembers most of the information that she has been learning about World War II in class this week, but she remembers very little of what she learned about World War I two weeks ago. d. At 9:00 a.m., Darrell makes a mental list of the five items he needs to purchase at the grocery store at the end of the day. At noon, he checks himself and realizes that he still remembers all five. At 3:00 p.m., however, he discovers that he has forgotten three of the five items. Ques. 4 Eunice has had trouble remembering the formula for calculating the area of a circle, so she is saying it to herself over and over again as her teacher passes out a geometry test. Eunice is demonstrating: a. Storage in the sensory register b. Retrieval from working memory c. The use of maintenance rehearsal d. The use of chunking Ques. 5 Look at this word: KITE Without turning the page, try to imagine how the word would look if it were rotated 180. To perform this task successfully, you would need to make considerable use of that part of your working memory known as the: a. visuospatial sketchpad b. reticular formation c. phonological loop d. sensory register Ques. 6 Marnie attends very closely to the English teacher's lecture because she knows she must pass her English course in order to graduate. Marnie's attentiveness demonstrates the effect of _______ on attention. a. stimulus intensity b. personal significance c. emotion d. incongruity Title: Three of the following statements are accurate descriptions of long-term memory. Which one is not ... Post by: dlsmith88 on Mar 14, 2018 d a b c a b |