As You Sit in Class, the Words to Your Favorite

question 36

Multiple Choice

As you sit in class, the words to your favorite song keep running through your head. You are using what part of working memory?

• A) the visuospatial sketchpad
• B) the central executive
• C) the articulatory loop
• D) the semantic editor

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Definitions:

Variable Number

A quantity or element that may vary or change within the context of a situation or experiment.

Stimulus Discrimination

The learned ability to respond differently to similar stimuli based on their differences, significant in the context of conditioning.

Stimulus Generalization

The tendency for the conditioned response to be evoked by stimuli that are similar to the stimulus to which the response was initially conditioned.

Higher-Order Conditioning

A process in classical conditioning where a stimulus that was previously neutral becomes a conditioned stimulus by being paired with another conditioned stimulus.