Our short-term memory span is approximately ________________ items?

Related Mcqs:

1. The capacity of short-term memory can be increased through ________________?

   A. chunking
   B. attention
   C. rehearsal
   D. selective encoding

2. The area of the brain where short-term memories are transferred to long-term memory is the _________________?

   A. medulla
   B. hippocampus
   C. pons
   D. hypothalamus

3. In contrast to a dissimilar-items list, a similar-items list is __________________?

   A. more difficult to learn
   B. easier to learn
   C. learned with equivalent ease
   D. more susceptible to the serial position effect

4. The tendency to immediately recall the first and last items in a list better than the middle items is known as the ___________________ effect?

   A. next-in-line
   B. misinformation
   C. serial position
   D. spacing

5. Rasheed watches as customer with at least 40 items lines up at his express checkout line. He decides the customer must be a real “idiot” to miss the sign that indicates Rasheed’s checkout line is an express line with a limit of 10 items. Rasheed’s attribution for the cause of the customer’s behavior is consistent with_________?

   A. drawing an illusory correlation
   B. false consensus effect
   C. the fundamental attribution error
   D. a defensive attribution

6. The theory of forgetting that stresses the similarity of items in memory is _________________?

   A. decay
   B. interference
   C. consolidation
   D. psychodynamic

7. According to Pavlov’s dual-code model of memory, the two types of codes used to store long-term memories are ________________?

   A. visual and auditory
   B. semantic and syntactic
   C. implicit and explicit
   D. verbal and visual

8. The process that controls the flow of information from the sensory store into the short-term store is ________________?

   A. encoding
   B. attention
   C. retrieval
   D. rehearsal

9. The process that controls the movement of information from the short-term store into the long-term store is __________________?

   A. retrieval
   B. attention
   C. encoding
   D. recall

10. What is the term for a structured form of short – term psychotherapy in which the goal is to change the negative, inaccurate ways of thinking associated with depression or bipolar disorder?

    A. Transactional theory
    B. Cognitive therapy
    C. EMDR
    D. Somatic trauma therapy