Which of the following occurs when someone's short-term memory is filled to capacity?
a) They simply squeeze more information in.
b) Displacement can occur at that point.
c) The person actively decides to save some items and then sends the remaining items back to sensory memory for reprocessing.
d) All of the information is automatically moved into the long-term memory store.
Answer: b
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During middle childhood, the long-term knowledge base grows larger and becomes organized into
A) information-processing frameworks. B) basic cognitive schemas. C) hierarchically structured networks. D) concrete operational webs.
Which of the following statements about the widespread belief that intelligence inevitably declines in middle and late adulthood as the brain deteriorates is true?
A) Many early cross-sectional studies showed an age-related increase in cognitive functioning. B) Cohort effects do not appear to affect the appearance of age-related intelligence declines in middle adulthood. C) Widespread testing of college students and soldiers in the 1920s revealed an age-related increase in intelligence in middle adulthood. D) When adults are followed longitudinally, their verbal scores rise during early adulthood and decline gradually during middle adulthood.