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81) The portion of memory that is more or less permanent is called a. primary memory. b. working memory. c. eidetic memory. d. long-term memory. 82) The best analogy for the way long-term memory is conceptualized would be a. a revolving door. b. a filing cabinet. c. a desktop. d. a television. 83) It is thought that long-term memory never can get filled up. The term used to describe the capacity of long-term memory is a. 7, plus or minus 2. b. about 10 000 items. c. limited by the size of a person’s brain. d. unlimited. 84) Robert took a psychology course in 1951, and although he doesn’t remember a lot about the course, there are many concepts that he still remembers very well. The information that Robert can still remember in 2010 was likely a. a part of his eidetic memory. b. phonologically encoded. c. in permastore. d. because he has an encyclopedic memory. 85) Which of the following comparisons between long-term and short-term memory is true? a. The duration of long-term memory is significantly shorter than that of short-term memory. b. The storage capacity of long-term memory is significantly smaller than that of short-term memory. c. The errors made in long-term memory are the same as those made in short-term memory. d. The errors made in long-term memory are different from those made in short-term memory. 86) In his research on long-term memory, psychologist Harry Bahrick found that memory declined a. slowly, if at all. b. markedly for about two years, but only gradually thereafter. c. consistently the longer ago the information was learned and used. d. significantly for about one year, but then reverses and long-term memory increases. 87) Memory errors in long-term memory tend to be ____________ and tend to be ____________ for short-term memory. a. acoustic; phonological b. visual; acoustic c. semantic; visual d. semantic; acoustic 88) What does the result of research on primacy and recency effects suggest about human memory? a. The forgetting of information occurs in a random manner. b. We only recall information that is somehow unique and distinctive. c. Human memory abilities are quite poor. d. The forgetting of information occurs in predictable ways. 89) You make a list of groceries you need to get but realize you have forgotten the list when you get to the store. These are the items on your list: Sugar, Salt, Flour, Vanilla, Muffins, Avocado, Black Pepper, Garlic Powder, Yeast, and Milk. According to the von Restorff effect, if you are trying to remember this list of grocery items, what item are you most likely to remember? a. Sugar b. Milk c. Muffins d. Avocado 90) The _____________ effect is the tendency to remember stimuli later in a list and the _____________ effect is the tendency to remember stimuli early in a list. a. primacy; recency b. recency; von Restorff c. von Restorff; primacy d. recency; primacy