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1. When an external event occurs, information about it FIRST goes to _____ memory, and then, if we _____ the information, it goes to _____ memory.

D. sensory; attend to; short-term

2. Which of the following statements about short-term memory is FALSE?

A. Short-term memories involve reconstructions of fragments of stored information.

3. When a person shows better memory for items depending upon where these items are located in a list, the person is showing something called

D. the serial-position effect.

4. As you listen to a show on television, the information that you are attending to is being held in

B. short-term memory.

5. Sensory memories are encoded

C. as reproductions of the sensory stimulus.

6. Which of the following statements about short-term memories is TRUE?

D. Short-term memories are limited by the small capacity of the short-term store.

7. Unrehearsed short-term memories disappear within 20 seconds because the _____ that are their physical bases in the brain decay rapidly.

C. engrams

8. If you learn a word list and misremember the word "fan" as "tan," this shows that you encoded the word "fan"

A. phonemically.

9. Which of the following is an example of an iconic memory?

B. a visual image held in the sensory-memory store.

10. Subjects in a study are given the following list of numbers to memorize:

55  34  98  53  23  76  82  45  13  21  95  68  26

If they remember best the numbers 95, 68, and 26, they are showing a ___ effect; if they remember best the numbers 55, 34, 98, they are showing a ___ effect.

C. recency; primacy

11. Which of the following levels of awareness is NOT involved in perceptual defense?

A. conscious

12. Because the first items in a list tend to be rehearsed more than other items in the list, they are more likely to be in the ___ store.

C. long-term

13. Forgetting from short-term memory is BEST explained by which of the following theories?

B. displacement theory

14. Which of the following is NOT a type of memory storage in the Atkinson and Shiffrin "standard model of memory"?

B. cognitive

15. Which theory explains the forgetting of sensory memories AND short-term memories?

D. decay theory

16. The explanation that states that forgetting is due to the disappearance over time of a physiological "memory trace" is called

A. decay theory.

17. A student asked me a question during lecture. Just after she finished asking the question, my attention was distracted by another person who stood up, walked to the front of the room, sharpened his pencil, and then sat down again. My attention came back to the question; but now I no longer could remember what I was asked just 40 seconds earlier. This was probably due to the fact that the memory was lost from the ___ because I was not able to ___.

A. short-term store; rehearse the information

18. Displacement theory explains forgetting when a memory subsystem is limited in terms of its

C. capacity.

19. Which of the following is an example of an echoic memory?

D. a sound held in the sensory-memory store.

20. Attention is the mental process that transfers information from

B. long-term memory to short-term memory.

21. The LONGEST duration of unrehearsed information in the short-term store is about

C. 15-20 seconds.

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