Students in a Psychology Experiment Were Exposed to Three Notes

question 120

Multiple Choice

Students in a psychology experiment were exposed to three notes of music for a very short period of time and then asked to recall them. If the instructions to recall the notes came immediately, the students usually succeeded. If the instructions came more than 3 seconds after the notes were played, the students were much less successful. The MOST plausible explanation for this phenomenon is that, in the latter case, the echo __________.

• A) never made it into sensory memory
• B) faded after being stored in short-term memory
• C) was already stored in long-term memory
• D) faded before being stored in short-term memory

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Definitions:

Life Expectancy

The average period that an organism, especially a human, is expected to live based on demographic factors.

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of numbers, found by dividing the sum of these numbers by the count of the numbers in the set.

Function

A relationship between a set of inputs and a set of permissible outputs, where each input is related to exactly one output.

Probability

The measure of the likelihood that an event will occur.