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madam-professor

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Chapter 4 discussed research on the recency effect. How is this research related to short-term memory?
 
  a. The final words in a list are recalled accurately because they are still in short-term memory.
  b. There is a clear-cut difference between pattern perception and short-term memory.
  c. The material can pass directly into long-term memory, without first entering short-term memory.
  d. The recency effect showed that the capacity of short-term memory is extremely large.

Question 2

Suppose that a friend asks you what movies you have seen within the past year. Your recall is especially accurate for the movies you saw during the last two weeks. This phenomenon is called
 
  a. chunking.
  b. the recency effect.
  c. the primacy effect.
  d. proactive interference


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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Ans: a

Answer to Question 2

Ans: b


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