Nine-year-old Dustin comes home from a birthday party and tells everyone what he did at the party, all the friends he met, and the games they played. Dustin is using ______ memory to rely on his recall for events of the party
A) semantic.
B) episodic.
C) short-term.
D) long-term.
B) episodic. Episodic memory is memory for events, or episodes, that one experiences in day-to-day life.
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The modal model explains primacy and recency in free recall as follows:
A. Primacy occurs because of rehearsal and recency occurs because of interference. B. Primacy occurs because of rehearsal and recency occurs because of delay. C. Primacy occurs because people retrieve from short term store and recency occurs because of rehearsal. D. Primacy occurs because of rehearsal and recency occurs because subjects retrieve from short term store.
Research with animal subjects
a. is on the decline because computer simulations of animal nervous systems are so accurate, compelling, and useful. b. has been largely replaced by the use of tissue cultures. c. has been shown to have only limited value to understanding human problems. d. has yielded valuable discoveries that have benefited our species. e. is increasing because of the ease of availability of experimental animals.