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Question 51

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The auditory equivalent of the icon is the ____________.

A) echo
B) vibration
C) sound wave
D) neural trace

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Information in short-term memory is retained ________.

A) for about 60 seconds
B) as long as it is rehearsed
C) for several seconds without rehearsal
D) up to several minutes

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How long do the contents of the sensory store normally last?

Deciding what information to store and how to represent it is known as:

When Rip Van Winkle returns to his native village,after 20 years of sleeping in the mountains,he goes immediately to the location of his former house and asks for his wife and children by name.The kind of memory that he is exhibiting is _______.

Memories that concern events that are highly significant and are vividly remembered are called _______________.

"Forgetting that occurs as a function of the passage of time" defines ________.

Sensory store memory:

The working memory is known as the _____________ memory.

Connie lost her keys.She searches her memory for when she last had them,and goes to that place in the hope that it will help her remember where she misplaced them.Connie is ________ activating her _________.

An echo usually stays in the sensory registers for __________.

Proactive interference of long-term memory means ______.

Which of the following is NOT true of eidetic imagery?

The portion of long-term memory that stores specific information that has personal meaning is called __________ memory.

A recognition test requires one to:

Last week Lisa took an abnormal psychology test and did not miss a question.However,when a guest speaker came to class a week later to talk about schizophrenia,she had trouble remembering some of the relevant class material.She remembered even less about the topic when she saw a news report on schizophrenia a month later.What memory phenomenon explains what Lisa is experiencing?

The hippocampus seems to be essential for __________.

Flashbulb memories _______.

The sensory memory associated with the visual sense is called the:

Your memories of personal information such as what you wore to work yesterday,what you ate for breakfast this morning,or who your spouse is,are stored in ______.