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2. The correct order for the three kinds of memory is:
 sensory memory, short-term memory, long-term memory
short-term memory, episodic memory, sensory memory
long-term memory, iconic memory, echoic memory
semantic, echoic memory, episodic memory
3. Which kind of memory holds seven or eight items of information for several seconds?
echoic memory
sensory memory
long-term memory
short-term memory
7. If you do not attend to information in sensory memory, what will happen to the information?
The information will be forgotten.
The information will be transferred into secondary memory.
The information will be transferred into short-term memory.
The information will be forgotten for one to three seconds, but then later encoded into short-term memory.
8. Of the following, which is not a function of sensory memory?
gives decision time
prevents being overwhelmed
allows for rehearsal of information
provides stability, playback, & recognition
10. Repeating information over and over so that it does not fade from short-term memory is called ________ rehearsal.
elaborative
episodic
maintenance
intentional
11. Why doesn’t information in short-term memory simply become permanent? Probably because of:
limited storage space in the brain
fascination with the new and different
interference caused by newly arriving information
incompatibility with previously processed information
12. If you combine separate items of information into large units and then remember these larger units rather than individual items, you are using:
attention
chunking
rehearsal
procedural memory
13. Short-term memory performs three functions. Which of the following is not among the three functions?
provides a location for network nodes
selectively attends to information that is relevant
holds information for a short period of time
promotes storage (through rehearsing) in long-term memory
14. Unlike that of short-term memory, the capacity of long-term memory:
is almost unlimited
depends on cell development in the frontal lobe
varies tremendously from one person to the next
is six to seven items that can be consciously recalled
15. The ability to recall items at the beginning of a list more easily than following items is the result of the ____ effect.
attentional
recency
primacy
ordering
16. The recency effect works because subjects:
cannot transfer information into sensory memory
still have the last items available in short-term memory
rehearsed the last items storing them in long-term memory
do not have enough long-term memory for all of the items
18. Two types of declarative memory are
procedural & episodic
semantic & procedural
semantic & episodic
semantic & motor
19. __________ memory is the aspect of memory that stores facts & events. It applies to standard textbook learning & knowledge. It is based on pairing the stimulus & the correct response.
nondeclarative
procedural
declarative
episodic
21. Photographic is to eidetic (eye-DET-ick) as ______ is to ______.
film; flashbulb
adult; child
short-term; long-term
intellect; emotion
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General Psychology
Robert C. Gates
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 Perplext no more with Human or Divine,
To-morrow's tangle to the winds resign,
And lose your fingers in the tresses of
The Cypress---slender Minister of Wine.
from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
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