Ashton Is Forty-Five Years Old

question 26

Multiple Choice

Ashton is forty-five years old.He has vivid memories of the significant events that took place in his youth.However, he finds it difficult to recollect the events that took place during the first few years of his life.In the context of memory retrieval, this ability to recall events from certain phases of his life is known as

• A)the reminiscence bump.
• B)the serial position effect.
• C)absentmindedness.
• D)interference.

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Definitions:

Information-Processing

A cognitive approach that likens the mind to a computer, focusing on how people encode, store, and retrieve information.

Brain

The organ located in the head of an animal that coordinates its actions and sensory information by transmitting signals to and from different parts of its body.

MEG

Stands for Magnetoencephalography, a noninvasive imaging technique used to measure the magnetic fields produced by neuronal activity in the brain.

Head Coil

A device used in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the images obtained.