Information Processing

1. What is Information Processing?

• A) The process of organizing data into a logical structure

• B) The act of storing and retrieving memories

• C) The steps of acquiring, interpreting, and responding to information

• D) The way computers process data

2. Which of the following is the first stage in the information processing model?

• A) Storage

• B) Encoding

• C) Retrieval

• D) Attention

3. What does the term “short-term memory” refer to in the information processing model?

• A) The permanent storage of information

• B) The temporary holding area for a small amount of information

• C) The process of recalling information from long-term memory

• D) The rehearsal of newly acquired information

4. Which of the following is an example of long-term memory?

• A) A phone number you just learned

• B) Your name

• C) A song you heard five minutes ago

• D) A password you need to remember

5. Which of the following is an example of "selective attention"?

• A) Listening to a lecture while ignoring background noise

• B) Repeating a phone number to remember it

• C) Recalling the steps of a process

• D) Storing new information in memory

6. What is the role of working memory in information processing?

• A) Storing information permanently

• B) Organizing and temporarily holding information for manipulation

• C) Recalling information from long-term memory

• D) Encoding sensory data

7. What is retrieval in the context of information processing?

• A) The process of storing information for later use

• B) The process of receiving and interpreting new information

• C) The process of recalling or accessing stored information

• D) The act of forgetting irrelevant details

8. Which of these memory systems has the largest capacity and longest duration?

• A) Sensory memory

• B) Short-term memory

• C) Long-term memory

• D) Working memory

9. Which is NOT a common cause of memory distortion?

• A) Misleading information

• B) Emotional state at the time of encoding

• C) Sleep

• D) Repetition of information

10. What is the 'central executive' in the information processing model?

• A) A part of memory that organizes and stores data

• B) A component that controls attention and allocates cognitive resources

• C) A system that stores long-term memories

• D) A memory area responsible for the immediate processing of sensory information