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51.

Explain any one example of Flashbulb memory from your life.

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  • I clearly remember the day when my grandmother passed away. 
  • On that day, I had an omelet for breakfast and went to college around 10.30 a.m. I attended only two lectures and then received a call about this bad news. After that, my best friend accompanied me home.
52.

_____________ memory has the shortest duration. a. Sensory b. Short Term c. Long Term

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Correct option is c. Long Term

53.

What do you mean by magical number 7?

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  • The magical number 7+/-2 provides evidence for a limited capacity of the STM. 
  • Most adults can store between five and nine items in the STM. 
  • This idea was put forward by George Miller in 1956 and hence called 7 as a magical number.
54.

_____________ memory has unlimited capacity. a. Sensory b. Short Term c. Long Term

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Correct option is a. Sensory

55.

State whether the following statement are true or false. If false, correct them. If true, explain why.Baddeley called LTM the working bench of memory.

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False 

 Baddeley called STM the working bench of memory because STM is the most important stage of memory which is used most of the time for problem-solving.

56.

State whether the following statements are true or false. If false, correct them. If true,The method of relearning is also known as the saving method.

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True

Explanation: In relearning method, there is a saving of time taken to learn the same material. Fleece, this method is also known as the saving method.

57.

Match the following pairs:AB1. A technique to improve memorya. Short-term memory2. The most vivid memoryb. Declarative memory3. Working memoryc. Implicit memory4. Most organized memoryd. Flashbulb memory5. Playing the harmonium after a long timee. Method of Loci6. Writing an essay on perceptual processf. LTMg. Recall methodh. Relearning method

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AB
1. A technique to improve memorye. Method of Loci
2. The most vivid memoryd. Flashbulb memory
3. Working memorya. Short-term memory
4. Most organized memoryf. LTM
5. Playing the harmonium after a long timec. Implicit memory
6. Writing an essay on perceptual processg. Recall method
58.

Compare and contrast:Semantic memory and Episodic memory

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  • Semantic memory is a more structured record of facts, meanings, concepts, and knowledge. On the other hand, episodic memory is a memory of experiences and specific events which we recall step by step to reconstruct the actual events.
  • Semantic memories have personal context which includes vocabulary, mathematics, rules of logic while episodic memory is the memory of autobiographical events with times, places, and associated emotions.
59.

Memory is a/an _____________ a. activity b. process c. performance

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Correct option is b. process

60.

One of the important processes for storage of information in the LTM is _____________ a. perception b. elaborative rehearsal c. encoding

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b. elaborative rehearsal

61.

State whether the following statements are true or false. If false, correct them. If true,Conscious memory of facts and events is called explicit memory.

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True 

Explanation: Explicit memory is a type of LTM that contains conscious memories of facts and events

62.

State whether the following statements are true or false. If false, correct them. If true,Implicit memory is the memory of skills.

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True 

Explanation: Implicit memory is the unconscious memory of skills and how we do things, regarding the use of objects or movements of the body.

63.

Compare and contrast :Primacy effect and Recency effect

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  • The primacy effect occurs when the subject is able to recall items that are presented at the starting point of the list while the recency effect occurs when the subject is able to recall the items which are presented at the end. Free recall is effective in studying both these effects.
  • Both primary and recency effect was witnessed in Murdock’s experiment where subjects could prominently recall the first few and last few words from the list.
  • The primacy effect is the tendency to remember the first piece of information that we encounter in a better manner than the information presented later on. Conversely, the recency effect is the tendency to remember the most recent information in a better way.
64.

State whether the following statement are true or false. If false, correct them. If true, explain why.Very often forgetting is due to unconscious processes like repression.

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True 

We subconsciously push unwanted thoughts and memories into our unconsciousness. It is one of the causes of forgetting.