All Night, Pedro Has Been Staring at Samantha from Across

question 67

Multiple Choice

All night, Pedro has been staring at Samantha from across the dance floor. At the end of the night, he finally gets the courage to ask her for her telephone number. His mental repetition of the number on the drive home is one example of

• A) chunking.
• B) the power of suggestion.
• C) rehearsal.
• D) transference of memory.

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Definitions:

Explicit Memory

A type of long-term memory involving conscious recollection of factual information, previous experiences, and concepts.

Recognition

The identification of something as having been previously seen, heard, known, etc.

Recall

The mental process of retrieving information from the past, often without the aid of external cues.

Parallel Distributed Processing

A computational approach in cognitive science that models mental processes as occurring across networks of simple units working in parallel, simulating how information is processed in the brain.