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2. What are the two main components of the serial position effect?

  • Independent recall & dependent recall
  • Primacy effect & recency effect
  • Immediate recall & serial recall
  • Primary effect & secondary effect

3. Sarah is participating in a memory test. She must inspect a list of words and then recall them in any order she likes. What method is she using?

  • Interval recall
  • Free recall
  • Recognition
  • Cued recall

4. In 1890, William James made a distinction between ‘primary memory’ & ‘secondary memory’. How did he define primary memory?

  • Memories which we are holding in our conscious awareness & which are currently receiving our attention
  • Memories which we are not presently holding in conscious awareness, but which are held in storage ready to be recalled
  • Memories which are held for an incredibly short period of time
  • Memories related to sight only

5. What are the three major processes involved in memory?

  • Attenuation, storage, retrieval
  • Encoding, storage, retrieval
  • Attenuation, filter, retrieval
  • Encoding, accommodation, retrieval

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