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Imagine that you have volunteered to participate in some psychology research. The researcher tells you to look at several words briefly, and then count backwards for about half a minute before recalling those words. The researcher is probably measuring
 
  a. sensory memory.
  b. long-term memory.
  c. short-term memory.
  d. semantic memory

Question 2

According to the chapter on working memory, what was nontraditional about George Miller's article on the magical number seven?
 
  a. Research in a wide variety of cross-cultural settings continues to confirm that working memory is limited to seven items.
  b. Researchers had previously thought that the capacity of visual memory had no strict limits.
  c. Miller's research helped to persuade psychologists that the Atkinson-Shiffrin model of memory was inadequate.
  d. Miller's article emphasized active mental processes, rather than simply focusing on the stimulus and the response.



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Answer to Question 1

Ans: c

Answer to Question 2

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