Which Statement About Working Memory Is False

question 60

Multiple Choice

Which statement about working memory is false?

• A) Rats and pigeons use retrospective coding to remember early choices and prospective coding to remember later choices.
• B) Retrospective coding decreases task difficulty as the number of places visited increases; prospective coding increases task difficulty as the number of places yet-to-visit increases.
• C) When subjects are interrupted or prevented from continuing their selection response, the greatest disruption of performance occurs on choices in the middle, rather than on early or later choices.
• D) Working memory performance is disrupted much more than reference memory performance when the hippocampus is damaged.

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