Cognitive Psychology MCQs and Notes

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Vikash Gupta • 33.56K Points
Instructor I

Q 31. __________ memory is that part of long-term memory made up of conditioned responses and learned skills.

(A) episodic
(B) semantic
(C) fact
(D) skill

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Vikash Gupta • 33.56K Points
Instructor I

Q 32. Information in long-term memory can be retained up to

(A) 30 seconds.
(B) 1 hour.
(C) many years.
(D) 2 seconds.

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Rakesh Kumar • 28.44K Points
Instructor II

Q 33. If you witnessed a crime and were asked to pick out the criminal from a lineup, you would be doing what kind of memory task?

(A) eidetic imagery
(B) relearning
(C) recall
(D) recognition

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Praveen Singh • 36.81K Points
Coach

Q 34. Your recollections about your last birthday are stored in your __________ memory.

(A) episodic
(B) semantic
(C) retroactive
(D) short-term

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Gopal Sharma • 38.32K Points
Coach

Q 35. __________ is known for memorizing nonsense syllables and plotting a curve of forgetting.

(A) luria
(B) mnemonic
(C) ebbinghaus
(D) loftus

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Priyanka Tomar • 35.28K Points
Coach

Q 36. When new learning disrupts the ability to recall past, stored information, __________ has been said to occur.

(A) proactive interference
(B) disinhibition
(C) retrograde amnesia
(D) retroactive interference

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Ranjeet • 34.60K Points
Instructor I

Q 37. The kind of memory that lasts for only a second or two is

(A) long-term memory.
(B) short-term memory.
(C) eidetic memory.
(D) sensory memory.

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Ram Sharma • 193.86K Points
Coach

Q 38. __________ memory is that part of long-term memory containing factual information.

(A) episodic
(B) semantic
(C) declarative
(D) procedural

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Praveen Singh • 36.81K Points
Coach

Q 39. The "magic number" __________ represents the average number of "bits" of information that short-term memory can usually handle.

(A) three
(B) six
(C) seven
(D) nine

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Vikash Gupta • 33.56K Points
Instructor I

Q 40. Which of the following is true of rehearsal of information?

(A) rehearsal is an aid to maintaining information in sensory memory.
(B) after 45 seconds without rehearsal, information is gone from stm.
(C) rehearsal interferes with chunking and recoding of information in stm.
(D) rehearsal aids the transfer of information from stm to ltm.

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