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 This activity contains 5 questions.

Question 1.
Match the following terms with their corresponding descriptions.
A matching question presents 5 answer choices and 5 items. The answer choices are lettered A through E. The items are numbered 1.1 through 1.5. Screen readers will read the answer choices first. Then each item will be presented along with a select menu for choosing an answer choice. Using the pull-down menus, match each item in the left column to the corresponding item in the right column.
A Conscious, intentional recollection of an event or of an item of information.
B A method for measuring implicit memory in which a person reads or listen to information and is later tested to see whether the information affects performance on another type of task.
C Unconscious retention in memory, as evidenced by the effect of a previous experience or previously encountered information on current thoughts or actions.
D The ability to retrieve and reproduce from memory previously encountered material.
E The ability to identify previously encountered material.
 
 
 
 
 
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Question 2.
Match the following memory systems with their corresponding descriptions.
A matching question presents 4 answer choices and 4 items. The answer choices are lettered A through D. The items are numbered 2.1 through 2.4. Screen readers will read the answer choices first. Then each item will be presented along with a select menu for choosing an answer choice. Using the pull-down menus, match each item in the left column to the corresponding item in the right column.
A A memory system that accurately but very briefly registers sensory information before the information fades or moves into short-term memory.
B Short-term memory plus the mental processes that control retrieval of information from long-term memory and interpret that information appropriately for a given task.
C The memory system involved in the long-term storage of information.
D A limited-capacity memory system involved in the retention of information for brief periods of time.
 
 
 
 
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Question 3.
Match the types of memories with their corresponding description.
A matching question presents 4 answer choices and 4 items. The answer choices are lettered A through D. The items are numbered 3.1 through 3.4. Screen readers will read the answer choices first. Then each item will be presented along with a select menu for choosing an answer choice. Using the pull-down menus, match each item in the left column to the corresponding item in the right column.
A Memories of facts, rules, concepts, and events-"knowing that"
B Memories of general knowledge, including facts, rules, concepts, and propositions.
C Memories for the performance of actions and skills
D Memories of personally experienced events and the contexts in which they occurred.
 
 
 
 
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Question 4.
Match the following terms with their corresponding description.
A matching question presents 4 answer choices and 4 items. The answer choices are lettered A through D. The items are numbered 4.1 through 4.4. Screen readers will read the answer choices first. Then each item will be presented along with a select menu for choosing an answer choice. Using the pull-down menus, match each item in the left column to the corresponding item in the right column.
A In the encoding of information, the processing of meaning rather than simply the physical or sensory features of a stimulus.
B Strategies and tricks for improving memory, such as the use of a verse or a formula.
C Rote repetition of material in order to maintain its availability in memory.
D Association of new information with already stored knowledge and analysis of the new information to make it memorable.
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Question 5.
Match the following types of forgetting with their corresponding descriptions.
A matching question presents 6 answer choices and 6 items. The answer choices are lettered A through F. The items are numbered 5.1 through 5.6. Screen readers will read the answer choices first. Then each item will be presented along with a select menu for choosing an answer choice. Using the pull-down menus, match each item in the left column to the corresponding item in the right column.
A The loss of memory for important personal information, often painful events. It usually has an organic cause.
B The inability to retrieve information stored in memory because of insufficient cues for recall.
C The tendency to remember something when the remembered is in the same physical or mental state as during the original learning or experience.
D According to psychoanalytic
E Forgetting that occurs when recently learned material interferes with the ability to remember similar material stored previously.
F Forgetting that occurs when previously stored material interferes with the ability to remember similar, more recently learned material.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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