Which of the Following Statements About Long-Term Memory Is FALSE

question 45

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about long-term memory is FALSE?

• A)Information stored in long-term memory can potentially last a lifetime.
• B)The amount of information that can be held in long-term memory is limitless.
• C)One effective strategy for encoding information into long-term memory is maintenance rehearsal.
• D)One category of long-term memory is semantic memory.

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Definitions:

Spontaneous Recovery

A phenomenon in learning and conditioning where previously extinguished responses reappear after a pause, without further conditioning.

Extinction

In psychology, the gradual weakening of a conditioned response that results in the behavior decreasing or disappearing.

Conditioned Purring Response

A learned response where a cat purrs following specific stimuli as a result of conditioning.

Spontaneous Recovery

After a pause in exposure to the conditioned stimulus, a once suppressed conditioned response emerges again.