The Brain and Memory Answers

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Short-term memory lasts a fraction of a second before the information is lost.

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What does echoic memory store?

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mental traces of things we hear
B
mental traces of things we see
C
mental traces of things we feel
D
mental traces of things we smell
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When in an argument, it is not uncommon for one or both parties to bring up past frustrations. These are __________ dependent memories.

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context
B
mood
C
state of being
D
iconic
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Mood and context are factors that can enhance memory.

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George A. Miller published a paper proposing that __________. A.short-term memory is limited to remembering information for seven minutesB.short-term memory is limited to remembering about seven items of unfamiliar materialC.short-term memory can retain information for seven yearsD.there are seven people in the world who do not have short-term memory

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A
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B
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C
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D
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What are the two types of long-term memory? Name a characteristic of each.

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What are the three processes of memory?

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The prefrontal cortex, parietal lobe, and hippocampus are brain structures attributed to memory.

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Explain chunking, recency effect, and primacy effect in regards to short-term memory when more than nine items of unrehearsed information are taken in.

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The memory process of retaining information received is called __________.

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retrieving
B
encoding
C
storing
D
recoding

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