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61) Loni is asked to memorize the letters I K T E A L N in no particular order. She memorizes them by reorganizing them into the words INK and LATE. This tactic is called a. flashbulb memory. b. hypnotic regression. c. photographic memory. d. chunking. 62) In the 1950s, George Miller estimated the number of items that could be stored in short-term memory to be the magic number a. 5, plus or minus 4. b. 7, plus or minus 2. c. 9, plus or minus 3. d. 11, plus or minus 1. 63) Jamal is trying to buy something over the phone. He asks his partner to read him his credit card number. However, when he tries to repeat it to the sales clerk on the other end of the line, he can’t remember all the numbers. Jamal is coming up against a. the decay of numerical memory. b. the extinction of auditory traces. c. the limits of procedural memory. d. George Miller’s magic number 7, plus or minus 2. 64) All night, Pedro has been staring at Samantha from across the dance floor. At the end of the night, he finally gets the courage to ask her for her telephone number. His mental repetition of the number on the drive home is one example of a. transference of memory. b. chunking. c. the power of suggestion. d. rehearsal. 65) Greg is a chess master and has an amazing memory for chess plays and positions on the board. If Greg also was in your psychology class and was taking this test, how would you expect him to perform? a. Greg would do very well as he must have an eidetic memory. b. Greg’s iconic memory for positions will help him to remember psychology concepts better. c. Greg’s memory for psychology concepts will be about the same as other students. d. Greg will probably do worse on the test than other students because his memory is consumed with chess. 66) Bart and Lisa are trying to remember how an action potential moves down an axon. Lisa repeats the information to herself repeatedly, whereas Bart links action potentials to lighting a fuse in an unmyelinated axon and skipping in a myelinated axon. What memory strategies are Bart and Lisa using to remember this information? a. Lisa is using a paired-associate task and Bart is using visual processing. b. Bart is using elaborative rehearsal and Lisa is using maintenance rehearsal. c. Lisa is memorizing using forced recall whereas Bart is using a free recall format. d. Both Bart and Lisa are using chunking to get more information into their long-term memories. 67) Brianna has just asked a new friend Tim for his phone number, and is repeating it to herself in her head. Tim then asks her a question about her plans for later in the day, and she forgets his phone number. What process was she using to remember his phone number and why did she forget? a. She used maintenance rehearsal and forgot because her rehearsal was interrupted. b. She used elaborative rehearsal and forgot due to memory decay. c. She used maintenance rehearsal and forgot because of proactive inhibition. d. She used elaborative rehearsal and forgot because she was not able to chunk the information effectively. 68) Which of the following individuals studying for a test will be able to remember information the best? a. Dan is repeating definitions over and over to himself from cue cards. b. Nancy is trying to link the concepts to examples in her own life. c. Karen is looking at the concepts in her textbook and trying to recall how they look. d. Matt is focusing on how the concepts sound to him and trying to make them rhyme. 69) You are learning a list of items for a test by relating the items to each other and to information that you already have stored in memory. Which type of rehearsal are you using? a. Condensed b. Permanent c. Maintenance d. Elaborative 70) If one wanted to use the best method to get storage in long-term memory, one would use a. maintenance rehearsal. b. rote rehearsal. c. elaborative rehearsal. d. sleep learning.