A Display of 12 Letters Is Flashed Briefly on a Screen

question 146

Multiple Choice

A display of 12 letters is flashed briefly on a screen in front of you, followed by a tone. You attempt to recall a portion of the display based on the specific tone you heard. What aspect of your memory is this experiment designed to assess?

• A) Sensory memory
• B) Flashbulb memory
• C) Long-term memory
• D) Short-term memory

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Definitions:

Pattern A

A specific and consistent way in which certain actions, behaviors, or phenomena regularly occur.

Organizational Position

Refers to an individual's rank, role, or standing within the hierarchy of an organization, affecting their responsibilities and authority.

Culture

The cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, roles, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, spatial relations, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving.

Work

A range of activities involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result.