Your Daughter Is 9 Years Old and You Have Been

question 45

Multiple Choice

Your daughter is 9 years old and you have been talking about the changes that she will soon be experiencing.One of the topics that you are discussing is what happens during menstruation and what she can expect.You tell her that the first menstrual period has a special name.What is it?

• A)spermarche
• B)menarche
• C)menstruational primacy
• D)ovulation

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Definitions:

Sensory Memory

The shortest-term element of memory, which allows retention of impressions of sensory information after the original stimuli have ended.

Primacy and Recency Effects

Psychological terms describing the tendency to remember information that appears at the beginning (primacy) and end (recency) of a list better than information in the middle.

Memory

The cognitive process of encoding, storing, and retrieving information.

Retrieval

The process of accessing and bringing into conscious awareness information stored in memory.