COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT You Go to Your Local Town Utility in Order

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Multiple Choice

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT You go to your local town utility in order to pay your gas bill. Which of the following are you most likely to use?

• A) vending kiosk
• B) financial kiosk
• C) visitor kiosk
• D) utility kiosk

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Definitions:

Echoic Memory

A subtype of sensory memory that retains audio information, allowing individuals to recall sounds and words in a precise manner shortly after the sounds are heard.

Iconic Memory

A type of visual sensory memory that retains a perfect image of a visual stimulus for a brief period after it has disappeared.

Parallel Processing

The ability of the brain to simultaneously process incoming stimuli of differing quality, a critical aspect of perception and understanding of the environment.

Effortful Processing

A type of memory encoding that requires attention and conscious effort in order to maintain information in short-term memory or to encode it into long-term memory.