How Do Cues Help You to Remember

question 69

Multiple Choice

How do cues help you to remember?

• A) They provide inferences.
• B) They help chunk information.
• C) They direct you to relevant information stored in long-term memory.
• D) They provide numbers for ideas.

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Definitions:

Sensory Receptor

A specialized neuron that detects a specific type of stimulus and converts it into an electrical signal in the nervous system.

Signal Detection Theory

A means to quantify the ability to discern between information-bearing patterns and random patterns that distract from the information.

Stimulus

Any object or event that elicits a sensory or behavioral response in an organism.

Just Noticeable Difference (jnd)

The minimum amount by which stimulus intensity must be changed in order to produce a noticeable variation in sensory experience.