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1

Imagine that you take a photograph of a room. What is captured in the photograph would be analogous to information that is
A)captured in sensory memory.
B)encoded in short-term memory.
C)encoded in working memory.
D)retrieved from long-term memory.
2

The fact that many people fail to notice the man walking through the video of the basketball players is comparable to which real-life limitation of memory?
A)The failure of eyewitnesses to report accurately the details of accidents.
B)Being unable to remember a telephone number without writing it down.
C)Remembering an important name too late for it to be of use in a test.
D)The inability to remember what items were on one's grocery list.
3

Fergus was driving down a deserted highway when he suddenly heard a loud noise under his wheels. He stopped the car immediately and went out to inspect his car. To his surprise, he saw that he had struck and injured a large deer. When talking to the police officers who stopped to help him, Fergus was amazed to realize that the deer should have been easily visible, yet he did not remember seeing it. Fergus experienced a failure to register the deer into his _____ memory.
A)long-term
B)rehearsed
C)sensory
D)procedural
4

Which of the following situations reflects a failure of sensory memory?
A)Barbara does not remember the lyrics to a song because she could not clearly hear them.
B)Bertrand is unable to remember the date of his cousin's birthday because he has too much on his mind.
C)Blanche forgets her backpack in her roommate's car and, therefore, is unable to study for her exam.
D)Betsy forgets that she has a dentist's appointment to have her wisdom teeth pulled.
5

If you were training people to be better eyewitnesses by improving their sensory memory, what procedures would you follow?
A)Teach them to look carefully at all the details of a situation.
B)Give them little tricks, such a forming word associations.
C)Encourage them to describe the situations in words.
D)Show them how to make sketches of what they see.





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