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Q1. Short-term memory is memory that holds information received from the sensory register for
A. up to 1 day
B. up to 12 hours
C. up to 1 hour
D. up to about 30 seconds

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Q2. The short-term memory has very limited capacity for storage of items (Miller, 1956):
A. 10 plus or minus 5
B. 7 plus or minus 2
C. 15 plus or minus 7
D. 20 pus or minus 10

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Q3. Internal representations of the environment as result of learning are called:
A. Latent learning
B. Imagination
C. Cognitive maps
D. Insight learning

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Q4. According to levels of information processing theory, the degree to which information is processed is called:
A.    Learned flavor aversion
B.    Discrimination
C.    Spontaneous recovery
D.    Elaboration
Q5. Odor-evoked autobiographical memories triggered by direct amygdala stimulation in human is
A.    Proust phenomenon
B.    Hebbian Learning
C.    Stimulus generalization
D.    Contra perpetual behaviours
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Q1. D Q2. B Q3. C Q4. D Q5. A
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