Where Would One Most Likely Encounter a Troubadour

question 37

Multiple Choice

Where would one most likely encounter a troubadour?

• A) studying Aristotle in a medieval university
• B) serving an Ottonian emperor in Germany
• C) singing love songs at the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine
• D) instructing pilgrims at a Gothic cathedral

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Definitions:

Short-term Memory

A temporary storage system in the brain for holding a small amount of information readily available for a short period of time.

Iconic Memory

A type of visual sensory memory that retains information for a very brief period, often described as the afterimage left by a visual stimulus.

Primacy Effect

A cognitive bias that results in the enhanced recall of items or information presented at the beginning of a list or sequence.

Recency Effect

The tendency to remember the most recently presented information best when recalling a list of items.