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Memory and Forgetting
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People use strategies that give meaning and organisation to the material so that it can be fitted in with existing organised long-term memories, through . . . . . . . .

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In the Atkinson-shiffrin theory, memory starts with a sensory input from the:

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Which of the following types of long-term memory deals with individual's personal experiences?

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Riding a bicycle, typing, writing are simple examples of:

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Which of the following memory is more widely known as iconic memory?

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The first level of incoming information for memory is:

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Which of the following is an important characteristics of episodic memory?

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. . . . . . . refers to any discrete unit of information.

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Amnesia' is a classified into two parts. First is Psychological amnesia and second is . . . . . . . .

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The ToT phenomenon indicates

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A type of amnesia which is usually considered to be a way of protecting oneself from the guilt of anxiety that can result from intense, intolerable life situations and conflicts, is . . . . . . . .

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We forget because learning new things interferes with our memory of what we learned earlier, is example of . . . . . . . .

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What we remember of a text is not a copy of the to-be-remembered material but the material is elaborated, simplified and changed in many ways at the time of input-these are called :

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Visual sensory register holds information for upto about . . . . . . . .

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Memories which can last for days, months, years or even a life time are stored in . . . . . . . .

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Forgetting caused by the prior learning of other material is called . . . . . . . .

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Who has shown that proactive inhibition plays an important role when experienced subjects are used in an experiment?

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STM can hold

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Which of the following is a symptom of senile dementia, a disease of brain?

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The models of memory that describe parallel processing of information by numerous neural modules in the brain are called:

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