PSYCHOLOGY EXAM 4

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PSYCHOLOGY EXAM #4 1. Processes which involve focusing awareness on a narrowed range of stimuli or events are said to use A. elaboration. B. attention. C. dual-coding. D. memory. ANSWER: B 2. When someone is unable to remember information because it was never paid attention to and put into memory in the first place, psychologists would say that A. the stored memory was lost. B. the memory was retrieved. C. the memory was blocked. D. the memory was not encoded. ANSWER: D 3. When people engage in multiple tasks at once, research shows that what they are actually doing is A. processing them simultaneously but each at a slower rate than usual. B. processing them simultaneously but each slightly more effectively than usual. C. switching their attention back and forth between tasks slowly (i.e., every few minutes at most). D. switching their attention back and forth between tasks quickly (i.e., multiple times per minute). ANSWER: D 4. Elaboration is best defined as A. encoding in terms of physical appearance rather than meaning. B. increasing motivation to remember (MTR) at the time of encoding. C. extended or repeated study sessions to ensure good encoding. D. linking a stimulus ...