According to the Levels-Of-Processing Principle, Certain Memories Are Easy to Recall

question 63

Multiple Choice

According to the levels-of-processing principle, certain memories are easy to recall because we

• A) repeated them over and over to concentrate mostly on their sound.
• B) thought about their meaning while we were storing the memories.
• C) held them for an unusually long time in short-term memory before transferring them to long-term memory.
• D) stored them in the deepest layers of the cerebral cortex.

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Definitions:

Spontaneous Recovery

A phenomenon in conditioning where a previously extinguished response re-emerges after a period of no exposure to the conditioned stimulus.

Respondent Behavior

A type of behavior that occurs in response to specific stimuli and is conditioned by the environment, as seen in classical conditioning.

Operant Behavior

Behavior that is controlled by its consequences, including rewards and punishments, in the context of operant conditioning a type of learning process.

Associative Learning

The method through which a person grasps the association between two signals or between an action and its result.