Which of the following would be an example of short-term memory?
a. remembering the letters of the alphabet
b. looking up a phone number and remembering it while you dial
c. remembering your name
d. remembering how to ride a bicycle
ANSWER: b
You might also like to view...
What is the role of the ventral prefrontal cortex in emotional behavior?
What will be an ideal response?
After a very long day at work, Alisa fell asleep much earlier than usual, somewhere around 7:30 pm. The television in her bedroom was left on,
and she slept right through the baseball game that was televised between 8:30 and 11:30 pm. The next morning, on her way to work, she had a vague sense that her home team had won the game 7-6 in extra innings. Amazingly, the announcer came on the air a few moments later and reported that the home team had won last night in an amazing extra-innings game, with a final score of 7-6. Alisa probably should not go to work as a psychic, because her knowledge of the baseball game's outcome was a result of __________. a. activation synthesis b. subliminal encoding c. nonsomnia d. hypnopaedia