The scientific term for a memory location in the brain

The sound produced when two notes an octave apart are played together

Psychology MCQs with Answers – Practice Online – Page 28

Question 541 Psychology

A response that leads to the removal of an unpleasant stimulus is being what?

Correct answer D. Negatively reinforced

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Question 542 Psychology

Which reinforcement schedule produces the highest and steadiest rate of response?

Correct answer C. Variable-ratio

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Question 543 Psychology

What are mnemonics?

Correct answer B. Techniques used to improve memory

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Question 544 Psychology

In which group is eidetic memory most commonly found?

Correct answer C. Children

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Question 545 Psychology

Which brain structure is involved in transferring short-term memories into long-term memory?

Correct answer D. Hippocampus

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Question 546 Psychology

What does echoic memory relate to?

Correct answer B. Auditory perception

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Question 547 Psychology

What does iconic memory refer to?

Correct answer C. Visual sensory memory

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Question 548 Psychology

Children learning the alphabet is a common example of what kind of learning?

Correct answer C. Serial learning

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Question 549 Psychology

Which theory of forgetting emphasises the similarity between items held in memory?

Correct answer C. Interference

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Question 550 Psychology

What is an inability to learn new information and form new long-term memories called?

Correct answer B. Anterograde amnesia

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Question 551 Psychology

Iconic memory fades in under two seconds from which memory store?

Correct answer B. Sensory register

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Question 552 Psychology

Who carried out the earliest studies of verbal learning and rote memory?

Correct answer A. Ebbinghaus

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Question 553 Psychology

Which memory store has a decay time of about 250 milliseconds?

Correct answer C. Iconic memory

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Question 554 Psychology

Which memory system holds information for the shortest time?

Correct answer B. Sensory memory

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Question 555 Psychology

What is forgetting that happens purely because time has passed called?

Correct answer A. Decay

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Question 556 Psychology

Which items are most likely to be forgotten?

Correct answer A. Those in the middle of a long list

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Question 557 Psychology

What does the process of encoding refer to?

Correct answer A. Getting information into memory

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Question 558 Psychology

Compared with a list of dissimilar items, how is a list of similar items learned?

Correct answer D. It is more difficult to learn

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Question 559 Psychology

The method of loci is an example of what?

Correct answer D. A mnemonic

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Question 560 Psychology

What is the process of getting information back out of memory storage called?

Correct answer C. Retrieval

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